Survive & Thrive in Korea
Internet Addiction. One of my favorite podcasts I listen to is On The Media from NPR. I can always count on learning something new going on back home or in some far off corner of the world. Last summer I listened to podcast about a young man in the United States suffering from Internet addiction. […]
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In the other corner is a trio of mosquitoes that never seem to dwindle in number no matter how many times I kill them.
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I don’t know how this post got lost in the shuffle, but apparently it did. If didn’t already know then let me tell you that in Seoul and all over Korea the face mask is in serious fashion. Ever before all this swine flu hysteria folks would have these on. I’m not sure whether they […]
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Well, it looks like another group of folks are getting a taste of what it’s like to be an English teacher in South Korea. The Aussie Lacrosse team has been held in quarantine for swine flu in Seoul just like the ESL teachers who have been all over the blogosphere. All in all 27 people […]
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The Swine Cometh! My friend just sent me a link of facebook to an organization called Rate My Hogwon. They have an aticle up about teachers in Korea being rounded up for testing postive for Swine Flu. The teachers were all in the same training program for their chain of schools and now have been […]
Continue ReadingIt happened. I knew it would happen, but I was still hoping with my fingers crossed that it wouldn’t happen. But, it happened. Swine Flu has come to Korea, specifically Seoul, and even more specifically, my classroom full of fifth graders. Now, they don’t actually have the Swine Flu or the regular flu or […]
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