*This was written 6 years ago, a year before I left Korea for Canada* I get asked this question a lot and so here…here is how I ended up in Korea: Recently, I called a lawyer. A lawyer in Canada, no less. This lawyer I called was very polite and helpful, apparently it’s the Maple…
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…
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 penultimate edition of Quote Friday. In a week where we hit our first birthday, details of the book emerged and the 200th post was written, it’s with great sadness that I…
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…
There’s a muffin shop near where I work that’s part of a big chain of muffin stores throughout Seoul. It’s my favorite muffin store and whenever I’m sad, The Canadian One will invariably trek to the nearest one, a subway stop away, and buy me a muffin. When I first got this job, I was slightly…
