The New Term Begins

It's been an interesting few weeks. As we were winding down the Summer Term, the school decided to replace the windows in our building. As they were doing it, they cracked the ceiling and discovered asbestos. That got us an unexpected 6 day weekend while the HazMat guys came in and cleaned out the building. Very nice.

This week, the term is officially over. We've finished our books, and the kids get their fun day of games and English videos. I'll be watching a lot of Wallace and Gromit in the coming periods. Monday, the new term begins which means another day of handing out books, introductions and games. Overall, it's been a good few weeks. There have been some hiccups along the way, but it's been okay.

Tonight is ...Whatever That Means' first real punk rock show. We're pretty excited. We'll be playing at Club Spot with 5 other bands. There's actually a bit of a mix. There are 4 punk bands, 1 indie rock band, and one hardcore band. Should be a good time.

Website Up

We have our website up HERE. As of now, there is only one live video on it. We're going to try to do some simple, live recording at practice this week. Hopefully, there will be more music up soon.

Our next show will be August 8th. It's a benefit for the local animal rescue organization. We're looking forward to it. We should have some new songs to play as well.

...Whatever That Means

After several months of practicing as a three piece, bothering everyone we know and putting up random advertisements online, our band "...Whatever That Means" has a lead guitar player. We've only been practicing with him, Alex, for two weeks, but we have out first show this weekend in a smaller city outside Seoul called DaeJeon (대전). We practiced a lot this week to get ready for the show and are pretty excited about it. Hopefully, all will go well, and we'll get offered some more shows in the near future.

2 Years and Running

I know my posts on here have been sparse at best. There are two main reasons for that. First, we are really busy. I work full time at the elementary school (of course, full time means 6 hours a day...sometimes 5), teach one on one lessons to businessmen in the mornings before school and do some private tutoring at night as well. Plus, we've been having band practice twice a week (we're hoping to have our first show soon!). The second reason, life here has become so normal to me that I don't feel the need to update nearly as much as when I first got here. That said, I have decided to do a better job in the future. Now onto the next thing.....

This Saturday, July 11th at 11:45pm Korea time (10:45am EST) will mark two years since my plane first landed in Korea. Trash and I will be celebrating the anniversary at the Boryeong Mud Festival again. It's amazing how much life has changed since then. I'm working at my third school, live in my third apartment, speak a little Korean, play in a local punk rock band, have been to Vietnam and Cambodia.....oh yeah, and I got married too! Amazing how much can change in two years. I never would've guessed things would be like this two years ago. I'm very happy with all these changes. It's been an amazing run, and it's not over yet!

Trash and I came back here three months ago planning to stay for about a year and a half to two years more. That remains the plan. We're doing our best to save money to ensure a good move home with as little stress as possible....especially since there will be SO much stress that just can't be avoided.

Anyway, that's where we stand for now. Life is good and we're very happy :)

The New Ride

Goodbye old, crappy, falling apart scooter. Hello new, awesome scooter!

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The Important Part

I know a lot of people are waiting for an album of wedding photos. We haven't gotten around to that yet. Besides, the most important part of that day came later at night....get your mind out of the gutter! I'm talking about the punk show we had after our wedding. We had the usual wedding ceremony and reception and then headed straight to club spot for the 8 hour punk rock show we organized to celebrate the big day.

Ric, my friends Honggu and Shawn and I threw together a band to play at the show. Below are 3 videos that consist of our whole set. Enjoy (And don't be too critical. We only had one week to learn everything).

2 Months of Silence

While I've been too busy to keep my blog updated, life has been anything but slow. As I'm sure everyone knows, I'm married. I spent two weeks in Vietnam and Cambodia (that's right, a Holiday in Cambodia) with my beautiful wife and two weeks back on the East Coast of the USA visiting family and friends.

We've been back in Korea now for almost two weeks. Life here is good as usual. I promise to spend the time to upload honeymoon photos and stories very soon. Until then, you'll just have to wait :)