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Sunset on Twin Oaks Farm

Danielle Harms — Tue, 29 May 2012 03:35:18 +0000

I first arrived at Twin Oaks Farm three years ago, on an evening long after the sun had set. I checked my directions for the dozenth time and confirmed that they did indeed say to turn off the well lit … Continue reading →

Swept Away in Vienna

Danielle Harms — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:18:46 +0000

As an English teacher living in South Korea last year, I developed a tired habit. Week after repetitive week, I mentally promised myself that I would really, truly contact local Wisconsin newspapers in search of one that might grant me … Continue reading →

Ruminations on the Hungarian Language: Take Two

Danielle Harms — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:55:18 +0000

Due to a potent combination of distraction and procrastination, here is part two of a short series on the Hungarian language, belatedly posted and slightly aged. Interested in reading part one? You’re in luck. Not speaking Korean in Korea was … Continue reading →

Nem Beszélek Magyarul: Ruminations on the Hungarian Language

Danielle Harms — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:51:11 +0000

Making my way past the supermarket’s overflowing crates of pale green paprikas and stacked tubs of sauerkraut, I found one phrase sliding through my mind. Continue reading →

A Dog for the Night

Danielle Harms — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:21:10 +0000

A vizsla puppy dropped by for the night. Continue reading →

The Best of Budapest: The View from Hostel Hill

Danielle Harms — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:01:01 +0000

Some cities are easy to love. Budapest is one such example. Continue reading →

Seoul, Hope, and Mustard Seeds: A Short Film on Philanthropy

Danielle Harms — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:42:45 +0000

You don’t have to be in South Korea long to notice two things: there is a large population of foreign English teachers and it does not have the best reputation. Truth be told, it is no struggle to find examples … Continue reading →

Gyeongbok Palace: A worthwhile stop

Danielle Harms — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:39:15 +0000

Home Again Having recently returned to the land of parking lots and fast food, bread and cheese, and friends and family, I find myself in the United States with an an abundance of both sentimentality for all things Korean and … Continue reading →

Boseong’s Green Tea Plantations

Danielle Harms — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:00:10 +0000

Traveling from place to place, I often marvel at the luckiness of creatures who call some of the best places the world has to offer their humble homes. A mere human couldn’t scrounge up enough of anything to land themselves … Continue reading →

Biking among the cherry blossoms

Danielle Harms — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:38:28 +0000

The timing of our trip to Gyeongju couldn’t have been better. We left on the tail end of the first week of April and a cycling challenge I am participating in called 30 Days of Biking. It was also smack … Continue reading →

Dispatch from the Classroom: First Grade

Danielle Harms — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:48:42 +0000

Don’t Pick the Flowers “Don’t pick flowers,” was the immediate response when my first grade students were asked recently to imagine that our class had been whisked away from our room in Ilsan, South Korea and plopped down on an … Continue reading →

Perhaps The Grammar Lesson Could Wait: “Teacher he ate too many soju.”

Danielle Harms — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:14:49 +0000

Hearing amusing thoughts in the classroom is standard practice when you spend each day hanging out with kids. There’s rarely a week that goes by without hearing something that makes me scramble for a pen so I can recount it … Continue reading →

Snow Day in Ilsan

Danielle Harms — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:02:27 +0000

After a week spent in the crunchy snow and shiver-inducing temperatures of the Midwest, my winter boots got plenty of use. When it came to packing them for my trip back to Goyang, South Korea, I nearly left them behind, … Continue reading →

Happy Thanksgiving from South Korea

Danielle Harms — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:34:53 +0000

All the students at school would like to wish you a Very Merry…Thanksgiving! I admit I’m a bit late with this sentiment, as that day of family feasting is likely fading in some people’s memories as Christmas approaches, but the … Continue reading →

Closer Than We Think

Danielle Harms — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:15:24 +0000

Do you ever wake up in the morning, pour some milk into a bowl of cereal, and think, "Hmm, I wonder what on Earth children in South Korea eat for breakfast?" Find the responses to this query and plenty of other questions about the daily life of a student in South Korea in this video. Continue reading →

If You Thought You Had Heard the Last of Jagalchi, Think Again

Danielle Harms — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:14:28 +0000

Undoubtedly alive upon delivery, the shrimp we ordered for lunch retained their capacity to move, and move they did. I could list every synonym in the thesaurus for jump, wriggle, scurry, writhe, and twitch in the dictionary, but this is a moment best watched. Continue reading →

Shots Fired in Contested Waters

Danielle Harms — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:52:04 +0000

As Barack Obama’s scheduled visit to Seoul approaches, and bilateral talks between North Korea and the U.S. are in the works, it would seem the winds are shifting towards increased diplomacy. An incident today between North and South Korean naval … Continue reading →

More poetry from the classroom

Danielle Harms — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:06:02 +0000

After some brainstorming about sensory details and exploration in the exciting world of similes, a refreshingly fun concept to teach, my 2nd grade class created these haikus together. Let’s move with the rain, God is showering at sky,* Tok tok, it’s like beans. Continue reading →

No Doubt About It: Something is Definitely Fishy in Busan

Danielle Harms — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:26:46 +0000

Saturday Morning Sights and Oh-My-Goodness Smells of Busan There is something surreal about emerging from the underground isolation of a subway station into the open air of a new place. Our first Saturday morning steps out of the station and … Continue reading →