I really did not experience culture shock when I left Texas for Korea. I had been here once before (briefly in 1994) and had some idea what to expect. Furthermore, I was walking into a situation where my job and housing were already...
Shortly after I agreed to become one of LIKE’s teachers back in 2007, I took an online course and earned a certificate in teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL). I thought the extra credential might come in handy at some point...
I dearly loved some of my students at the Chilgok LIKE School. But when it closed in April 2008 and I moved to the Yongsan branch, my happiness quotient tripled. Now I lived near a subway station and a Home-Plus store, I was two...
The contract I signed to teach at LIKE School in Daegu was for a year, but I ended up giving the Kim family 14 1/2 months (mid-November 2007–January 2009). The classes were usually 40 minutes long, and the beginning was signaled with a...
I have been called sports-obsessed more than once, but really it’s not true. While I appreciate athletic competition and excellence, I do not live and die with it. In fact, I feel pity and a measure of scorn for those people whose lives...
2007: Daegu (November 14), Seoul (December 25) 2008: Gyeongju (February 23), Andong and Hahoe (June 28), Changwon (July 18), Busan (August 16‒17), Goryeong and Haein-Sa (October 4), Mungyeong (November 7) 2009: Ulsan...
Supposedly, one of the advantages of attending a big university is that you are exposed to the smartest and best-educated professors. There may be a grain of truth in that idea but it is not always manifested. Forty years...
Kyu-Pal Choi had a lot going on in the early 1990s. Not only was he the father of three young children but he had gone into business for himself, starting Hansung International Patent & Law Office. He was also served as the leader of...
After my sophomore year at UT, I was up in Michigan with my family. We lived in Livonia, a duller-than-dull suburb west of Detroit. There were good people in Livonia, but the city itself left much to be desired. I had an office job at Ford...
Cotton Bowl (Dallas, Texas) I saw numerous football games at the historic Cotton Bowl, including those featuring the Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Texans and SMU Mustangs. I was there for a half-dozen UT-Oklahoma games and the Cotton Bowl Classics...
While living at Jester Dormitory on the University of Texas campus in 1972-1973, I roomed with John Collins. He was born in Roswell, New Mexico, although he grew up primarily in Dallas. I mention John’s birthplace because Roswell is...
From the summer of 1981 until November 2007 when I moved to Korea, I was among the most regular of participants in road races in Austin and the surrounding area. Of the 650-plus races in which I have run, the large majority took place in...
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