On The Ever-Raging English Teachers in Korea Debate

One of the best posts I’ve seen to date on the ongoing Foreign-English-Teachers-Are-All-Sex-Maniacs mediafest in Korea can be read at Scribblings of the Metropolitician. As for me, this crap is old news.
A few weeks after arriving in Korea, I was accused of being a sex maniac and a tempter because I was having [...]

Those Percussion Groups

If you’ve ever seen a really tight percussion/performance group, and wondered how they got to be so damned well tight, so deeply in unison, I can tell you. They practiced like mad. Like absolute mad. The dance steps and everything. Outside my window.
If I had more time, I would grab some audio and post [...]

A Cappella and Other Thoughts

Yesterday I attended a concert on campus. There’s a shy girl in one of my writing classes who came to me, ticket in hand, and asked me if I would come and see her sing. She’s a nice kid, and a diligent student, so how could I refuse?
Well, it turned out to be a cappella [...]

Botox for Mom

If I gave my mother a coupon for plastic surgery, I think she’d be rather upset. But, once again, it seems, things are a little different here in Korea.
(via Weird is Relative)

What Colour is My Teaching?

Last week, late one night, I ran into a wall. I wrote a posted about, briefly, but then decided that, even though I’d kept everyone in the post anonymous except myself, it was still inappropriate to publish it publicly on my site because, unlike the case of a conscious decision to plagiarize, the students whose [...]

Plagiarism Update

Let’s see.

Dog Soup and Someone Else’s Lessons

I made a small tactical error. I let my best writing class — which is one of my Elementary Writing courses, by the way, not the Advanced course — suggest topics, and hastily I chose the most controversial ones. Of course, this included “Dog Soup” and “The Yellow Dust from China” and a few more [...]

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