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 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 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...
by bbeckel | Oct 19, 2013 | Korea
We had a very adventurous weekend last weekend. People here have commented about us being “doers”. Go figure. 🙂 Saturday, we got up very early to try to climb to the top of Mt. Halla – the tallest mountain in South Korea. We live at about 30 meters...
