Hey y'all..
Yes, it's been a while, so much so that I briefly forgot my own login as I typed in the address to this page. Whew! well. I'm back.
and I'm in Korea again, after a year-long stint in Toronto back with the fam and friends.
so, I'm in Incheon now, teaching at a private language school... and I'm studing Korean. Lots.
So! I just learned an ( Read more... )

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i just crossed the border from china yesterday, which was a strange adventure itself.. the lawn-mower that we rode on to get to the border crossing, walking 600m in no-man's land territory on the "friendship pass" and then waiting in line at the so over-crowded immigration office while being butted by vietnamese dudes handing their passports and ( Read more... )

i'm leaving korea in 2 weeks, and i'm feeling the days whizzing by. i'm getting nostalgic already, and i know i'm going to miss my cute students so much, and the amazing kindness and generosity of all the people i've met in this country. here are a few of my experiences from the last couple of weeks...

( why i adore korea... )

emily and i playing that terribly overplayed song.

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this is emily (my buddy in korea) and i sharing the beauty of giant beer with the world

i have just discovered my new favorite passtime... the jim jil bang.

allow me to elaborate: a jim jil bang is a series of dry sauna rooms... all different sizes and temperatures.. ranging from the room shaped like an igloo to 100 degrees..
the jim jil bang is coupled with awesomely awkward and totally relaxed public baths. women and men are separate ( Read more... )

In memory

Pretty little Anni
was sitting on a meadow
when a bee stung her
on her sweet mouth.
Forgive me, said the bee,
I didn't mean to do it.
I thought your lips
were a rose.

From
your friend
Schneck Gisela

14.10.38

this is a poem i copied down form aushwitz concentration camp in krakow, poland, last summer.

hee hee hee

on saturday, eric and i went out for dubu kimchi (tofu and kimchi) and dong dong ju (delicious rice wine) and we made a new friend. rather, he made us ( Read more... )