Two things I love eating are bread and pizza. I'm quite lucky that in my new neighbourhood I'm spoilt for choices with both bakeries and pizza restaurants all less than a10 minute walk. I like eating lots of baked goods and western style grain bakeries are not that common. Koreans prefer rice cake which is a sticky chewy mixture that can be made in different ways. The bakeries I did find did not have a wide selection are rarely different types of grain or wholewh...

I've been at my new school for a couple of weeks now and settling in quite easy compared to my last school when I had just arrived in Korea. This is another middle school and having taught two years middle at the last school its a relatively easy transfer. The kids are the same age group so I can recycle old lessons from the previous school. Also I know how to deal with problem kids as I saw all the same issues at the last school for the last two years. This scho...

Saturday a friend of mine was getting married at the Seoul Mosque. He was marrying a Korean Muslim convert so with mixed marriages its always interesting to see the joint influences at the wedding. I've never been to a mosque wedding before as usually its in a large hall with min of 100 people, lots of food, music, and sometimes dancing. This time being in a mosque I thought it would just be a simple ceremony. There was a classroom downstairs that was being used ...

A friend was getting married at the Seoul Mosque this weekend so I had to make a special trip up from Daegu as I dont goto Seoul that often. The mosque is one of the first places I visited when I first visited Seoul on my arrival in Korea but I havent been back in a long time. During this trip I was surprised to see how touristy it has become with the locals. In the Itaewon Arab neighbourhood you will find the mosque if you follow the main street with all the Ind...

Tuesday afternoon we were going to a school welcome dinner at the new school. The Principal is leaving so this is her farewell dinner. Surprisingly, this is the only school that I know of that has a female principal. There was still some rain as the tail end of typhoon bolavan passed thru. We went to a pork restaurant which I'd never been to before as I dont eat pork. It was the same setup as any other restaurant with the long floor tables and grills on the table...