With the close of school from New Years to Mar 1 I only have to teach three days of classes for winter camp during the new years week. The remaining time is divided between vacation days and sitting in empty schools known as 'deskwarming'.I get to teach grade 1 middle school students as during term I only teach grade 3 and only high level grade 2 students.Since the school board global festival in November when I made a giant totem pole from cardboard boxes, I've ...

When I went home in August I had to get a new passport as I was running out of pages. Every time you leave or enter korea they stamp you in and out. Other visas such as China or Vietnam took up a whole page and every asian country will stamp you in/out.I even ended up with six stamps when I went to Hong Kong, left to enter Macau for a day trip and return to HK, then leave again to return to Korea.There were only six pages left on my passport which was supposed to...

One of the biggest problems in trying to arrange my trip to Uzbekistan was arranging the Visa. I'd tried talking to several local Korean travel agents but got blank expressions since Koreans don't go there for holidays so they didnt know how to arrange the visa or even how to explain to me in english the process.I had come to work in Korea especially to visit Uzbekistan as flights were much cheaper than if I tried from back in Canada. I first wanted to go in Aug ...

Recently I went with a friend to see the Korean performance of Mamma Mia currently touring in Daegu for about two weeks. Several international musical shows have toured Korean and Daegu but adapted for the korean market into the korean language. I thought it would be interesting watching the show and wouldnt be too much of a problem seeing it in korean as I've seen the movie and musical before.I last saw the live show in Toronto back in 2004 and the movie has bee...

Last friday we had a freak snowstorm in Daegu. It doesnt usually snow, at most some frost or maybe some flurries. In the three winters I've been here this is the heaviest snowfall I have seen in Daegu.I chose to live in Daegu to escape from the cold winters of Toronto and because Seoul was just as cold as Toronto. Daegu is not accustomed to snow and is not prepared with shovels, salt, or snow plows.On friday we started having very heavy flurries during class. Thi...