I thought that it was a joke when she told me. I started laughing, and I couldn’t stop. She looked at me as though I had lost my mind, especially when I kept pinching my arm, hoping that I would wake up from a nightmare. I was awake and it was no joke. Here’s how [...]

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All I can say is that Itaewon, which is near Seoul, is rockin’. I didn’t see much of the area, but it’s the people there who made it fun. The area is a more diverse city than Busan because everyone goes there first. I loved it because of the Yongsan Army Base. It felt [...]

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A friend from my former school in the U.S. asked me how is teaching in South Korea different from teaching in a public school in the U.S. I am a certified teacher from the U.S. with experience teaching high school. This list represents my experience as a foreign teacher in a Korean elementary school.

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It was what I’d call a bitter cold day — cold for a tropical girl like me, but something happened today that had never happened to me before in the U.S. I’ve been taking these things for granted. I was on the way to work when I ran into a co-worker. I never saw co-workers [...]

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After teaching my usual four hours with my co-teacher on Thursday, I settled in at my desk for the rest of the afternoon. I was happy when my friend Lucy came to rescue me. I had asked my co-teacher about the whereabouts for the new SHOW cell phone payment center, and she had to go [...]

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They say that any issues that you have in your hometown will follow you to South Korea. This is so true. I’ve met trifling shady men in America and definitely met my first and hopefully my last one in South Korea. I went out with this guy from West Africa, and we were having a [...]

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This post isn’t about paying U.S. bills in South Korea, rather paying a South Korean bill. Actually, I thought that I was going to pay the bill until I had the best excuse ever.

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Today was the first day of classes at my school in Busan, and it was good to see my students again. Some of the students forgot their manners and tried to paw my hair. I let them know quickly that was not acceptable. Today’s lesson was How Much Is It? I taught third and fourth [...]

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I searched Daves ESL Cafe to find teaching jobs when I first decided that I wanted to teach in South Korea. I still visit the forums there. I use the site now, mainly to read the teacher banter. Now that I’m teaching in South Korea, I can see that a lot of the discussions about [...]

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I’m learning Korean again. I can’t exactly say that I tried very hard the first go-round. I took one class last summer, struggled with hangul, and procrastinated. So now it’s a new year, and I am tired of not being about to read hangul.

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