People always ask me ‘How did you and The Canadian One meet?’, ‘Why is your blog called The Ketchup War?’ and ‘Why is the printer beeping? Can you come fix it?” To answer that last question first, I have no idea. I’ll turn it off and turn it on and if that doesn’t work, I’ll…
And I’ve only ever experienced any kind of direct, to-my-face discrimination because I am Irish twice. And it was in Korea. And it was from another Irish person. Well, two, in fact. It happened twice on separate, years apart occasions. It was because I am from Dublin and they were from Northern Ireland. They didn’t…
A serialistion of the popular Quote Friday book: Watch Out For The Hedgehog, four years of hilarious kids’ quotes from the ESL elementary school classroom in South Korea. Chapter Three: On World Geography Me: “What’s your favorite country?” Kid: “USA.” Me: “Why?” Kid: “It’s very big and the economy is strong.” Me: “I don’t think that’s…
A serialistion of the popular Quote Friday book: Watch Out For The Hedgehog, four years of hilarious kids’ quotes from the ESL elementary school classroom in South Korea. Chapter One: On Love & Relationships In every school I’ve ever worked at the kids have always been a little more interested in my life than in anything…
It’s been eight weeks since The Canadian One and I swapped The Land of The Morning Calm for The Land of The Maple Leaf but there are some mornings when I wake up just a little teeeeeny bit confused about which country I actually live in. Take my 5 minute journey from our house to…
The best of this week’s quotes from my elementary students in South Korea (and some thrown in from friends too) And so we come to the end. Yesterday marked my last day as a teacher here in Korea and while I await my move from The Land of the Morning Calm to The Land of the Maple…
I once whacked a child across the face with a CD player. His name was Blake. He was five. It was my first year of teaching and I’d been placed in a Kindergarten school named Wonderland. I spent my mornings teaching two back-to-back 90 minute English classes to a group of 5 year olds and…
