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It’s been a while since we’ve updated this site with our latest misadventures so first things first: no we haven’t defected to North Korea, no we haven’t been arrested, and no, we haven’t ended up victims in some snuff film after a weekend retreat to a hostel in the countryside went wrong.
The truth is, we’ve […]

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It’s hard to believe we’ve already been out in Korea for almost five months. Sometimes it feels like just the other day our Director was picking us up at the airport after a 12 hour flight out of San Francisco, then other days it feels like we’ve been out here for years already. It’s fair […]

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My first genuine “Fuck Korea” moment happened the other week.
That’s right, my first moment where I, for lack of any better description, got so frustrated with some practice, ritual, custom, and illogical cultural behavior here that I blew up like Bill O’Rielly after an hour with Al Gore and George Clooney. I got mad. Not […]

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Ahhh, life abroad. One of our teachers who’s leaving this sunday flew into an emo temper tantrum today in the teachers lounge after he discovered we weren’t going to be moving into his apartment, and as a result, the stuff he’d acquired (as one easily does) over here would have to find proper homes, and […]

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Here’s the late, great, Heath Ledger as The Joker in the upcoming Dark Knight movie…

…And here’s one of my students in the act of consuming his Frozen Banana Popsicle during Cooking Class. I see nothing but utter evil and madness in both their eyes.

And speaking of mad geniuses, here’s another random of Your Future Overlord […]

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So our director stepped into the teachers room the other day and politely, but very authoritatively (as he’s so good at doing) stated: “I just wanted to let you know, that Avian Bird Flu is all over the place, and it’s encircling Seoul. So we won’t be serving chicken or eggs for lunch any more. […]

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