Last week we had a new foreign teacher (Chris) start at work, so we had a week of covering extra lessons, and him observing our classes.All went well, and now he's started his full teaching role.There have also been a few timetable changes, so I have a couple of different, higher level classes which I hope will be good!On Thursday I went out for dinner with some girlfriends, and we had a different version of the BBQ pork 'galbi' dish which you wrap up in the le...

It's been a busy week.On Tuesday my boss took all the foreign teachers (and Graham) out for lunch, as it was one of my co-workers last week at work.He took us to a fantastic buffet, which had lots of western food, so we all pigged out and then spent the afternoon feeling very sleepy at work!Then on Wednesday us foreign teachers went out after work with the Korean teachers, as there were 3 Korean teachers leaving too.We went for Shabu Shabu, but a seafood one th...

It's been a slightly different week for me at school, as I had to write monthly reviews for every child that I teach.So, the good news was, less telephone calls to make (as we get to use this time to write the reviews), the bad news was that I had to remember the names of all of my students and think of something different and insightful to write about them all!Now I don't have the best memory for names, and some of my classes I have only seen 3 times, so at th...

Last Saturday, 8 of us took an early bus from Gwangju up to Seoul, for the St Patrick's Day Festival.We decided to go for the luxury bus, with the big reclining chairs, so we could sleep, and it was only about 14.00GBP each for a single.The bus got there early, so it only took about 3 hours and 15 minutes.We met a couple more people there, and the 10 of us checked into our hostel.Surprisingly this was our first time sleeping in dorms, but it was really clean an...

My first full week of teaching went well, so we decided to go for a couple of beers at Millertime after I finished work on Friday.This led to a few more beers, some soju, and then our first visit to a Noraebang.This is a karaoke room which you can hire with your friends, and they are very popular in Korea.There were a group of us, including a Korean guy who knew the owner of a Noraebang, so we got a great room really cheap.There was a huge table with a curved s...