Be Nice

Our school’s core teaching system – the one for which I went on that intensive training course in Seoul a year ago – is so much fun that I think I possibly enjoy it even more than the children. It involves telling stories, singing, dancing, and doing action activities in a tightly-packed, fast-moving 30-minute class, [...]

Strange things happen when you’re going round the twist.

That night when I left French class early due to illness and pinkeye (almost completely back to normal, by the way, hooray!) and general misery, I felt a little bit spaced out – as evidenced by the unnecessarily vast array of insect repellent and killer with which I returned to my apartment. It was probably [...]

The things you’d never experience if you were in a hurry.

Every day, I walk past a little shop which seems to be less concerned with selling things than it is with providing shelter for a group of elderly people who sit around all day ganching. [EDIT: I have been told off for using Northern Irish slang again without translating for my readers. It means gabbing. [...]

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