Jakwangsa Daejeon

... won (~ US$1,000) to put you in a job, no matter if it is a good job or not. s/he doesn&#8217;t care if you are happy because they will get the money as soon as you arrive. that said, there are positive things about going through a recruiter because a lot of the large companies only go through recruiters to find teachers. so people have had positive experiences with them. <br><br>the korean school year starts in march and september. so, february and ...

I stepped off the bus into a cool, mid-afternoon rain and quickly snapped open my umbrella. The 3 hour bus ride escorted me out of the thriving Seoul metropolis, thru a flatland agricultural expanse and into the mountains of West-Central Korea. Far from any tourist areas, I find myself alone at a rural bus stop, absent of a taxi stand or even phone booth. Undisturbed by the isolation, I stand for a few minutes and listen to the raindrops impact the taut umbrella fabric. It gives me ...

... was with the size of my class, as it contained just three students...and three quiet students at that! Therefore I deviated from the lesson plan and included some writing tasks, as I was finding it difficult to keep them talking for over two hours. Unfortunately, I got called into the Korean head teacher's office later that evening and she wasn't amused. I still don't know how they managed to find out the contents of my lesson, although ...

... that I finally have some time off. You see, I'm playing a little game with myself. I'm testing myself and if I'm as diligent as I think I can be then I'll get right through to Monday morning without worrying about CK and the 5 camps I've left to manage. Now there's a challenge. It's now 10:30 on Saturday evening and 1pm today marked the first time since Christmas Day, 18 days ago, that I ...

... way of measuring how long the tunnel is. You know, the one with the light at the end of it. I'm also counting down the days until we turn back into 'real' travellers again (tentatively set for February 5th 2008). Tibet, Nepal, India; that's what I'm really looking forward to. But gotta get camp out of the way first or we won't be going anywhere, except further into debt. Now, on with the entry. Yawn Yep, we're tired. No doubt ...

... actors. We were particularly busy today - printing, sorting, typing, juggling schedules, crossing t's, dotting i's... the usual stuff. The reason being is because we were catching up, having spent the best part of a day yesterday filming the cringe-inducing CK video, the one I forwarded you all about a couple of entries ago would be coming soon. It wouldn't have eaten up so much of our precious time if it wasn't for the ...

... hiatus our $10 Wal-Mart alarm clock is once again doing what it likes doing, and we hate - waking us up. I guess that means our days have a purpose once again but still, we hate hearing that piercing 'beep beep' noise that rouses us from our slumber in the morning, a noise that is killed, albeit only temporarily, by the oft-used snooze button. Our systems had, not surprisingly, adjusted well over the last 3 weeks to the 10-12 hours of Hello Kitty-monitored sleep ...

In December of 2005 I was chatting on the phone to an old friend and mentioned that perhaps my next overseas experience would be in Korea, who would have thought that 19 months later I would board a plane and actually head to Korea! I left my family's house in Peterborough at 3:30a.m. the morning of July 13 and a car ride, two plane trips (Toronto to San Fransisco and San Fran to Incheon, Korea), and a bus later I arrived at 9:30p.m. on Saturday July 14 in Daejeon, South ...

... driver's license. They gave me a book (in Konglish - mostly English but with funny spellings based off of Korean) about 100 pages long with all the rules similar to home. It was hilarious to read because every rule written I had witnessed being broken at least once. So I studied my little book and tried to memorize the legal height one can pack things onto the back of a scooter and other such ridiculous rules.<br><br>However, at the testing facility all the Koreans were ...

... There are no rules and that is what works best. Simply think about your safety and keep driving full on ahead. This is how the country is motivated. Progress is the only focus of everything. The goal is to accomplish everything and don't think about the consequences behind or to the sides of you. I have heard that in the driver's license test if you look in your mirrors or in your blind spots you fail the test. I had to take a test with all the Koreans to ...