Hey everyone, Yeah I know it's been 6 weeks since my last post. So how are things. Well unfortunately I haven't been able to do a lot of travelling because I was silly enough to run for the bus one evening in october and ended up spraining my foot. That meant three weeks in a bandage/ half cast thing and even now a few weeks after that was removed, I experience a lot of pain if I try to turn or if I am on my feet for a significant period of time (which is almost...

September in Korea is lovely. The hot temperatures of the summer are gone, the leaves are changing colours on the trees and new teachers arrive in Korea for the second semester of the year. We met up with the new teachers shortly after they arrived and took them out for a meal just as had been done for us when we arrived. My canadian friend Alex, and his korean friend Inki started a language exchange in Eonyang, which is really helping to bring the foreigner comm...

Hey everyone, Sorry I haven't blogged for a long time. The heat has meant I have been unable to do much travelling and the teaching has not been going great. I'm going to post two blogs today. The first one will be about my teaching experiences over the past two months which have been quite negative so you might want to skip reading this post of me complaining a lot and read my next one about the exciting things I got up to in late September. Let's start with s...

Hey everyone, so this post is to update you all on my summer vacation. It was a 13 day trip so it's gonna be a long post. It started on Friday 24th July with an early start to catch the bus in down-town Ulsan that would take me to Gwangju, the main city in the south western province of Jeollanamdo. After a four hour bus ride, I got to Gwangju and went to the hostel. I didn't really know what to visit when there but the hostel owner suggested I go to Mudeungsan m...

Hey everyone, 안녕하세요, Things are winding down here as we approach summer holidays. Middle school finished on Monday so I have a month off from there. Elementary school finishes this Thursday and then I have a lovely 12 day long vacation (including weekends). I plan to go to the south-western most province of Korea Jeollanamdo and then on to Jeju Island. I'll be taking a ferry so hopefully it won't sink (too soon to make that joke?). During the summer h...