On Our Own Path

Making Cute Kids Sing in English

2009-07-05T01:39:12-05:00

Written by Bessie: You want to know what stress is in a Korean kindergartner's life? Getting up in front of the school to make a video of a English Song and Poem contest for your parents. My students complained. Whined. I bribed them with stickers and candy and made...

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A Korean 4th of July

2009-07-05T00:19:08-05:00

Written by Bessie: You can take the Expats out of America, but you can't take America out of the Expats. To celebrate the 4th of July, we found ourselves at a rooftop barbeque that if you look beyond the fog mountain tops and the Korean apartment towers around, you might have though...

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Hiking Around Anyang

2009-07-01T08:37:29-05:00

Written by Kyle: If you look up at the skyline from about anywhere near where we live, or within most of Korea, you can see little green mountains. Ok, ok, if the air isn't smoggy or if the "yellow dust" from China isn't around, then you can see them, which means you can...

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COEX: The World's Largest Underground Mall

2009-06-24T08:10:23-05:00

Written by Kyle: The World's Largest Undeground Mall! It sounds exciting at first, but then you realize 2 things: 1) There probably aren't that many malls underground and 2) it's a mall. It reminds me of The World's Largest Sitting Bronze Buddah on Lantau island in...

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Cookin' With Nanta

2009-06-24T07:32:09-05:00

Written by Kyle: In our quest to do all things Seoul, we stumbled upon an array of "non-speaking" theatrical performances that seem to be all the rage here. We had our choice from a breakdancing jailbreak, to all kinds of Stomp! imitations, to what we finally settled on:...

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Thanks to a bug, I know my kids are learning.

2009-06-18T04:49:27-05:00

Written by Bessie: Teaching kindergartners is everything I thought it would be: snot. tears. hilarity. Sometimes the kids are really adorable and make me laugh, and other times I want to be the furthest place from a child I can imagine. Every half an hour we rotate...

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Spotlight on Korean Food: Seafood

2009-06-16T04:30:39-05:00

Written by Kyle: Welcome to the first of hopefully many posts on Korean food! We've found that one of the joys of living in Korea has, surprisingly, been the awesome and usually cheap food. So, with that in mind, we are going to start with one that we don't normally eat that...

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Finally Getting Out of Seoul (and going to Gangneung)

2009-06-10T02:13:14-05:00

Written by Kyle: Truthfully, even though we had been in Korea for 2 months, we hadn't gone anywhere outside the Seoul metropolitan area. Granted, that area is huge and would take you every day of one year to explore it, but it's still a little chunk of the whole country. So,...

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This Should Be My Palace.

2009-06-02T03:28:06-05:00

Written by Bessie: Gyeongbokgung translates into Palace of Happiness, and it's hard to be anything but happy while you're there. An elated Seoul tourist. Kyle at the main entrance to the Palace Complex with the essential Asian peace signs. Say kimchi!! Gong - buck -...

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Wandering in Korea: Anyang City & the Chungang Market

2009-05-26T04:47:29-05:00

Written by Bessie: I had a Tuesday night free, and was thinking, "hey, I really miss random adventuring around." So I called one of my co-workers to find out how to take the bus to the center of the city we live in. I've never riden a bus here, and I don't understand...

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