by bbeckel | Dec 13, 2013 | Korea
It’s been a while! I miss writing to you all, and once I let a couple weeks go by, I don’t even know where to start with an update. We’ve been keeping busy in the build up to the holidays. Here are a few mini-stories from our life in the last couple...
by vfitzjarrald | Dec 6, 2013 | Education, Technology, Work
This past week, I received a wonderful email from a friend of mine (Dr.Z). Since he is a philosophy addict, we often have vibrant discussions about the importance of technology and education. Being obviously fed up with the technology at his fingers… this is...
by bbeckel | Dec 3, 2013 | Korea
This weekend started December, and Patrick and I decided to get into the winter spirit by going for a drive to find the snow. I guess this is a common date activity – Patrick’s office mates told him he had to take his wife to Mt. Halla this weekend. So we...
by vfitzjarrald | Nov 25, 2013 | Featured
Working with Evernote and the Moleskine team over the past couple weeks has been wonderful! First off, let me give a little backstory. After arriving at KiS Jeju, I had some cleaning to do. My predecessor, did not have, nor ever thing of implementing a Technology...
by bbeckel | Nov 19, 2013 | Korea
Winter is coming to Jeju. Since last night, we’ve had start and stop rain, hail and general slush. It isn’t that cold (high 40s?), but the north winds and strong and ever-present. So it’s starting to feel like winter! We also just said good-bye to my...
by vfitzjarrald | Nov 7, 2013 | Korea
What a day! We travelled for quite a long time, just to go a distance equivalent to traveling from Colorado to Minnesota. Beth and I left Our apartment on Jeju at about 9:00am for our 10:40am flight to Seoul. Last week, my coworkers, William and Matthew, told us about...
by bbeckel | Oct 28, 2013 | Korea
This will be mostly a photo-post! I was trying to think of a way to share some of the silly, unusual, unexpected and just interesting things around us. So enjoy these little things. They make me smile almost every day around here! I know there are many more...
by vfitzjarrald | Oct 27, 2013 | Korea
Yes, the little “i” is correct, it’s the way we do things here in SK… Over the past few months, I have had coworkers, family, and friends all ask what I do everyday. That is one of the hardest questions for me to answer. During my work day, I...
by bbeckel | Oct 26, 2013 | Korea
It’s the end of a quarter and almost time for a 10-day break, so the students and teachers are all pretty frazzled. Patrick manages the gradebook system, which keeps crashing; students are freaking out about their grades; parents weekend and conferences are this...
by bbeckel | Oct 20, 2013 | Korea
Here’s the end of last weekend’s story, which I have to get posted so I can tell you about this weekend! After hiking Hallasan on Saturday, we were back up early on Sunday for “pastoral care”. Each faculty member is required to spend some time...
