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...

Yesterday we met up with some friends and all headed to the World Cup Stadium, for the first football game of the season.Our friends had been to watch the local team 6 times last season, and had seen only a couple of goals in all of those matches, so we weren't expecting too much.Saying that, our only experience of live matches is watching Grimsby Town FC, so our standards are pretty low, and I was secretly hopeful!As it was the first game of the season, there ...

Last weekend we had our first experience of Korean night life.We went out on Friday night, after I finished work, with a colleague of mine who took us on a guided tour of some of the bars downtown.The bus there cost us 1000WON, which is about 55p. No real ales unfortunately, just really fizzy, weak lager, but we did get to try some Soju.This is a favourite with Koreans, and is made from ethanol!After going to several bars where there were many foreigners, we we...