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"So I guess this is where I'm supposed to introduce myself. I'm a Canadian male teaching ESL in Seoul, Republic of Korea. This will be my second stint teaching ESL, only this time I'll be teaching at a High School, using my actual teaching experience to use. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me - no question's too small. Take care, and enjoy the ride."

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    Do I ever miss hockey. With so many Koreans playing baseball in the US, we always have baseball games of some sort on television - they will give preference to games where Koreans are playing, even if they are on the bench. However, they don't even know what hockey is, much less how its played, where its played, or anything else regarding hockey for that matter. I'm contemplating trying to download the games afterwards, but the temptation to check the scores of the games makes trying to watch the games almost 24 hours after the game without having checked the scores is almost impossible. One of the things that I have enjoyed considerably is living to the games live on the internet, via radio. Its somewhat nostalgic - comparable to people who listen to baseball games on the radio while attending the game. You get more play by play on the radio, and the colour commentary isn't exactly of Harry Neale quality, but the excitement can't be matched when you listen on the radio, and the delayed crowd reaction when a goal is scored, trust me, the feeling is the same. Either way, I wish I had SportsNet on cable here, because all I would be doing is watching hockey.
    In Korea, as I might have previously mentioned, Koreans wear suits, (even the women, with a skirt) that we sometimes joke that they even go as far as to sleep in them. All this suit wearing means that dry-cleaning is a major business. So when I went to the dry cleaner to get my shirts dry-cleaned (and ironed, of course...) imagine my surprise when I discovered that for five pairs of pants, and seven shirts, it was only ONE dollar to dry-clean, and less than that to iron 'em. For all those shirts and pants, I paid 20,000, or just over 23 Canadian. Awesome. The dry-cleaner was so excited to see so much "work", that he gave me a discount.
    Things here in Korea are otherwise going well - the weathers changed for the better, into the fall season, or as Koreans will tell you, season THREE of FOUR seasons that Korea has...right...The tree's haven't changed yet, but eventually they'll do so rather quickly, and then its a mad rush to the mountains to go hiking. And then after they all go to the mountain, the Koreans go to one of the Sea coasts - either the East or West coast. It's also massive shrimp season right now. On a side note, I absolutely love shrimp right now. I feel like I've missed out on a whole opportunity to enjoy seafood when I was living in Grand Rapids. Sure, Sarnia's not a hotbed for shrimp or squid or octopus, but I'm sure that Grand Rapids had some nice restaurants. Over here though, seafood is not only cheap, but its also incredibly healthy. Right now, its fall "super-shrimp" time in Korea, where a special kind of shrimp is in season - fist-sized shrimp...shrimp the size of a fist. Even though I haven't tried it yet, I just like typing it- shrimp the size of a fist. Mmmmm....Now that's a meal.
    Well, I need to get going - a few of the people at my school are planning a Thanksgiving turkey type festival this afternoon, but I don't know what's going down - so its my time to check out what's going on, and what part I need to arrange. Take care all, enjoy your thanksgiving turkey, and remember to thank God for everything that he has blessed you with

    Caio,
    Bryan

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    • Anonymous Anonymous says so:
      10/17/2005 11:01:00 a.m.  

      Hi Bryan, It's neat to read about your experiances. It's been a while that I have checked in on your blog. It seems like an awesome experiance.
      Hockey is ok but there are other things, like.................fist sized shrimp!
      Blessings.
      Rick VO top

    • Anonymous Anonymous says so:
      10/19/2005 03:18:00 a.m.  

      hey bryan,

      i'm sorry you missing the hockey season, i definately know your pain. let me tell you, after two fall semesters abroad its great to be at calvin. finally i get to watch hockey and football instead of having to look up the scores. so. although, i'm a little jealous, fist-sized shrimp that would be great to eat. i bet you'll gain like 15lbs.

      vaya con Dios,
      dustin top