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  • Killing Time in Coron

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    Sam cut his foot some days back and now it's infected. It swelled up three days ago and got all pus-y and painful. He went to the doctor yesterday and got some antibiotic horse pills that seem to be doing the trick, but whether he will be able to get any dives in during the three remaining days we have in town is up-in-the-air. I've been waiting for the last two days with him, hoping that he'll heal up quickly, but starting tomorrow I'm going to strike out on my own, if I have to.

  • Punitive vs. Educative

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    I'm a few days behind on the news but there was an interesting article from the 12th that I'd like to address. The Korea Times reported on the increased effort by the Lee Myung-Bak administration to encourage competition among teachers and schools to improve the quality of education. Recently, 17 teachers who had poor assessments are being transfered to different schools as a punitive measure for their poor evaluations of their teaching performance.

  • 11 Hour Death Cruise

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    Let's me start off by getting this out of the way: I'm tired and grumpy today. Yes, I'm in a beautiful port town with a tropical breeze blowing through my mussed-up hair, but I'm feeling misanthropic and full of bile. I've had a strange impulse to grab a few random tourists and chuck them off the deck of the guesthouse into the green waters below, hopefully right in the path of a really nasty jellyfish.

  • Let's Get Critical: The Food

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    As you may have surmised by my joyous posts from the Philippines, I've been enjoying the hell out of this place. The islands are beautiful, the water clear and full of amazing life, the prices are cheap and the people are just great. I totally endorse this place as an exciting and really fun travel destination, with one caveat:

    The food. My Kiwi friends took some umbrage when I made fun of their stodgy hobbit fare, so now let me piss off any Filipino readers.

  • Three

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    Three days.

    Finally, things are starting to settle in. When it's just another day, it's hard to get motivated for something still in the future. But, when you start preparing for that future event, it begins to impress both your conscious and subconscious. You're not going to be here this time next week. You're not even going to be here this time Tuesday. You'll be on a plane bound for the other side of the world.

  • awwwwwwwwe

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    There is a pretty wonderful girl that lives on my floor ... and quite understandably, somebody else thinks she's pretty wonderful too ...

  • Shinsegae Centum City, Busan

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    When I first came to Korea, I was eating Korean barbecue at least three times a week. Contrary to my initial hasty assumptions, one cannot predominantly subsist on meat and leafy vegetables without some degree of inevitable toilet trouble. Since then I've dropped my barbecue intake to about once a month, which has worked a lot better.

  • [Eight] Sweet Rain

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    Hello readers,

    Sorry it's been so long! I wanted to share with you information about Seollal (설날) which is the Korean name for Lunar New Year that starts in about two days (depending on where you are in the world). However, before that, I have to use my blog to talk about an issue that has been headline news for the last couple of weeks because it's an issue that's also been tugging at my heart.

  • School Scandals

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    Kang Shin-who continues to cover the SAT scandal for the Korea Times. Despite the fact that there has been at least an article a day since the event, very little new information has actually been written about. Frustrating for me is that Kang keeps repeating this line without offering any details surrounding it: "When he was trying to leave his former work place, Recas Academy for another academy last December, the hagwon owner kidnapped and beat him up." 

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