Feeling kind of spoiled and regretful that I am whining so much about being a foreigner in the ROK. Especially considering that where I’m from, the situation is getting increasingly worse for immigrants trying to do more or less the same thing I am doing: making a life abroad. Across the country, families are being [...]
* writing angry feminist rants on Facebook and my blog about this birth control brouhaha. * packing for Malaysia, which is happening tomorrow (oh god where did the time go?) Thus far I have twenty skirts and no underwear in my backpack. I should probably rectify this. * jogging – ! – every day this [...]
My 9th graders are graduating in two days. In my very last assignment for them, I asked them how they feel about this. Not surprisingly, many of them are nervous about starting high school, and sad to leave their friends. One of my best students, Ben, had written a long and heartfelt note about how [...]
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 [...]
