Korean Culture, July and a month of updates

i am such a bad blogger after wanting to be similar to one of my favorite writers as a child (Ann Landers) I seem to have developed a writers cramp where I only speak thoughts in my dreams. Well lets get started.

Before this month got underway I had high tensions with my workplace. 4 hours a day, no need to prepare anything, and a great salary is almost too perfect to ask for. The truth is that Koreans expect more than what is expected. I am no longer slamming Korea like the current monsoon torrent is but rather stating the obvious. These people want solutions to the problems that they cause but when some are offered they refuse to listen.

I had one meeting with them at their base. I wanted to discuss teaching methods, and possible solutions instead I got a lets be friends spiel with my mortal enemy and the problem of the school and thus bing botta boom I quit. They didn't welcome me in any fashion and they didn't open their eyes, heart, ears, or anything else when I was present.


Work front is almost over I will be finished for good at the end of this month. Unfortunately my future is still up in the air as my University job fell through.

Its been a little longer than  a week since I last wrote...

I got sick a few days ago and took another sick day. It happened to fall on a day where I was with the bad teacher. The new teacher that replaced my wife is awesome for me. She doesn't care too much about teaching. She relaxes and takes her time, and she does some of the work. I start 10 minutes late at least, and watch a movie for another 10 minutes at the end. At most I teach 20 minutes I like it!

Homefront- My wife's family spent the night here 2 kids her sister and brother in law. We have just a one room house. In America this is so rude because I can't have any privacy. I don't care where I live I still deserve some privacy. Where I come from someone doesn't go up to someone else from another culture and just say or do something that they know is wrong. I wouldn't go up to a Japanese person and tell him that Korea is the best Asian country etc etc. Family is family but people are people too, I find it difficult to change my clothes, do the things I would normally do like sit shirtless typing etc. etc.

Nevertheless it was good to see them but its even better that I know can enjoy a few hours of solace to myself.

I have been watching a lot of online tv shows, and now I have some dvds to watch as well. Mike gave them to me. We have been talking a lot about our jobs and futures and it will be interesting to see what will pawn out tomorrow when I go down the tridden trodden path into hell.


I am looking forward to August because I can have some time to think and clear my head. I need to sit down and have a post muerte period again. Unfortunately, maybe not in Japan nor back in the States. The US is making me angry....


Frankly, I don't see any jobs really opening up, I don't hear much good news from yahoo.com or home from anyone I am mortified because I am stuck until 2012 hopefully that's it. I hate it here. I had a fight about that a few days ago. I am willing to endure and able to wait but I don't see any signs of going back not from me but from my wife. I would take the next jet out of here if I could.


My wife posed a weird question: If I could make 8 thousand a month would I stay longer? I would rather be happy and living a fruitful life where people can speak my verbage and actually care what they are doing instead of going through the motions.


enough said time to drop another post on my lack of readers