I’m midway through my second week of teaching winter camp. Overall, this will be the sixth camp I’ve taught. When I first started out last winter, I was kind of baffled by the whole concept of “camp” here in Korea. It’s not an overnight trip to some woodsy location with a cabin and some bonfires [...]
We’re getting close to the end, folks: Eli sometimes says he’ll grow up and be Adult (responsibility-wise, not porno-wise) after the end of the world. I think that entails settling down, buying a house, and working a job with a dress code, or something. He also says maybe he’ll do this after he turns thirty-two. [...]
The semester is winding down here in Korean public schools, and with it come all sorts of weird schedule changees, pizza parties and miscellaneous other things. Tomorrow, my classes are canceled on account of this marathon 4-period long assembly in which they’re trying, AGAIN, to get the students to eschew curse words in favor of [...]
And so it happens – sooner than I expected it to happen, although in retrospect, the strokes he’d suffered last year probably should have been a clear indication of the beginning of the end. I found out from a student – Tom, in fact. I didn’t have much time to react to this pretty impressive [...]
