Live Forever or Die in the Attempt

Well I'm officially counting down the days remaining at Mokpo U. and in Mokpo. I only wish I could just transfer from school to school w...

Sometimes the things you like best about people are the same things you hate the most. I am often turned on by a simple, even simple-minded,...

I stayed at a motel in Gwangju last night. At the motel they provide two free packets of instant coffee in each room. I got up this morning ...

I feel like The Jerk. Remember that Steve Martin movie? I loved it. A classic! Remember the part after he's worked at the gas station fo...

I'm still in Mokpo working for Mokpo National University but I won't be here much longer. Only a couple more months. I took a job at...

Well it appears that I have a little bit of retracting to do. It's so hard to find good scientific advisors nowadays! In my previous pos...

I was hoping to avoid a post on this, the latest hysteria in Korea, but now it has affected me. No, I do NOT have mad cow disease. Nor am I...

No, I'm not yodelling from the top of a mountain. This is an Asian word I recently learned about through researching one of my classes. ...

I got to thinking today, cuz that's what I do on a Sunday in Mokpo when I don't really have any lesson planning to do. I got to thin...

I've been living in Mokpo for just a few days over 3 months now. That's a dozen weekends, most of which I've spent elsewhere. Bu...

I'm sure it won't come as news to many a reader of this blog that my favourite baseball team is no longer the Toronto Blue Jays. I s...

As mentioned in the last post, (yesterday), the cherry blossoms are absolutely gorgeous at Mokpo National University. I figured the best tim...

By my count I've been in Mokpo for six weeks. That's a month and a half in new parent lingo. I think I'm starting to get used to...