South Korea ESL

Chris on October 16th, 2010

I am currently unemployed!  I finished my year long teaching contract on Oct. 11th.  I received a fat bonus and my Korean bank account is looking pretty solid.   Upon completion of my contract, I got a bonus of 2.3 million, my normal salary of 2.3 million, 817k of other pay owed and sometime around [...]

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Chris on May 17th, 2010

This is my Korean cell phone I was provided a few weeks after arriving.  It is a nice phone and does everything I need it to do.  It is very cheap.  I text a lot and I have only spent about $140 for 6 months for pre paid minutes and what not. The cool thing [...]

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Chris on February 19th, 2010

The title pretty much sums up what happened to me….I got the H1N1 flu.  A couple of months ago, there was mass hysteria about the flu and EVERYONE in Korea was freaking out about it.  Since then, people have forgotten about it and most kids have the first round of the vaccine.  Soooooo, if I [...]

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Chris on January 15th, 2010

This is just going to be a post of what one of my students wrote.  I asked my highest level class to write me an essay about ANYTHING they wanted.  Posted below is what one of my students wrote.  I didn’t change/correct anything in any way.  This is what my student had to say: “I [...]

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Chris on January 14th, 2010

Taiwan is a fantastic country.  The people are nice, they speak a good amount of English, the strip clubs are out of this world, the food is delicious and the weather in winter is lovely.  Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Korea, but once I am done in Korea and travel a good bit, I could [...]

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