My YouTube Channel recently reached 100,000+ Hits http://www.youtube.com/user/londone73/v ideos?sort=p&view=0 This was due mostly to the Asia Song Festival held in Daegu last October 2011 which has had 75,000 hits just for that event. A close second are three videos from the Daegu IAAF Games last August featuring Jamaican Sprinter Usain Bolt who set a new World Record

Two fridays ago I went with some of the new teachers in my neighbourhood to a Shabu Shabu restaurant. This is one of the korean restaurants that I like. Wednesday of this week we had gone for an english teachers dinner from my school to another Shabu Shabu restaurant across the road from our school. Here is a brief video another KBlogger made about shabu shabu. Basically you boil your own meat in a pot that sits in the centre of your table along with vegetables. ...

This term the school has decided to install bilingual classroom signs across the school. However, they did not think to ask the native english teacher onsite first before going to all the trouble and cost of manufacturing them and having them installed. Unfortunately, this is going to teach kids the wrong meaning of certain rooms. Also some games we have been playing this week Q: How do you get a boy/girlfriend A: Have a baby / propose / sexy face Q: What animal ...

Often on these Asian trips I'm looking for a backup as to where I would want to go for a teaching job. So far I havent seen anything that interested me, but Taiwan was the first place that did. In a word, it felt "normal". Normal is a very subjective term to define as everyone is different in terms of what they like/enjoy/need/prefer, but for me it was the right balance of everything. They had the chinese influence of temples, night markets, street food. Efficien...

This was my final night in Taiwan and I was feeling sad to be leaving, something I havent felt on my travels for a long time. Normally I'm tired and just want to go home now, but this was a rare feeling of sadness, I hadnt had since Xinjiang China last year, or Sweden 2003 when I seriously thought about moving there. I got back quite late after 11pm to my room and settled into bed with the tv on low volume. Next door a noisy group of asians had moved into the adj...