Sapa is full of local color: silver bangles, swaths of red and indigo dyed cloth. The inky goosebumps of black chickens. Gilded teeth. Verdant rice paddies running in steppes along the slopes of mountains. Bright scarlet flowers. I could go on and on, but that’s quite enough travel guide speak for this blog. The most [...]
What I have been up to lately: cleaning up hedgehog poop. Following March Madness online (rock chalk Jayhawks!). Obsessing over Top Chef. Teaching students important vocabulary such as “killing” and “shooting.” Oh, and appearing on Korean public TV shows to sample French food. Yesterday, my co-teacher walked into the chaos that was my classroom after [...]
As mentioned in the last post, I left for vacation under a bit of stress. Originally we’d planned to go to the Philippines at the end of January, but due to scheduling error and miscommunication between Eli and his school, we ended up having to reschedule the flights, and eat a penalty for the change [...]
Abrupt return from dreamy paradise islands full of heat and smiles and a spectrum of blues, to a drab and chilly plain. Still, I’m not totally bummed. I did kind of miss my students, hormonal shrieking monsters though they may be, and since it’s the start of the new semester, it’ll be nice to get [...]
