Archive for the 'Moving' Category

Jul

Changes – Part O (ie 5)

I’m hanging out here at Krispy Kreme enjoying my time off. Generally, I don’t do vacation time very well at all. This time is different. I guess I really needed this short break.

As I said last night (sadly it seems I can type faster on my iPod than on my spacebar-less laptop) my stuff is in Daejon. I’ll end up staying in a hotel there for a few days until my bed is delivered (Kathryn + floor = pain). I start teaching on monday.

Today, I bought myself a Korean cookbook. I’m looking forward to trying some of the recipes. I love Korean food, so it should be fun. There are a few recipes I want to have my dad try to make for my grandma. She would probably enjoy some of the zucchini ones.

I’ll end by saying the WordPress app for the iPod touch/iPhone is great. Who knew sitting, drinking tea, and blogging could be such a great combination!!

posted by Kathryn in Daejeon,Korea,Moving,Off time,Ulsan and have No Comments

Jul

Change – Part Sa (ie 4)

So I’m sitting here in my hotel room in Ulsan. I finished at Little Campus yesterday. There were only a few tears. My stuff has arrived in my apartment in Daejon. The cats are being boarded at the vet’s office. I’ll move up to Daejon this weekend. I start teaching at my new school on Monday.

I plan on relaxing the best I can over the next few days. I’m looking forward to meeting the students and staff at Maple Square. I’m also looking forward to exploring Daejon. It sounds like a neat place.

Sorry this is so short. I’m on my laptop which is lacking a space bar.

posted by Kathryn in Daejeon,Home Life,Korea,Moving,Off time,Ulsan and have No Comments

May

Changes – Part Sam (ie 3)

OK. Here’s the deal. I was just offered a job in Daejeon. I think this is the one. The director’s teaching philosophy meshes quite well with mine. I think she has a great kindergarten program. She’s willing to work with my schedule (I finish here the beginning of July but she doesn’t really need me until the beginning of August). Daejeon seems like a pretty cool city. It’s known as the Silicon Valley of Korea. That’s right up my ally (even though I wouldn’t be able to really take advantage of it).

Once I get some more details, I’ll update again.

I’m so excited.

posted by Kathryn in Daejeon,Home Life,Korea,Moving and have Comments (2)

May

Changes – Part Ee (ie 2)

So after accepting the job at the school in Pohang, but before signing the contract, I backed out. I don’t feel bad about it at all. Let’s just say they were playing games with money that probably would have cost me in the neighborhood of 2 grand by the end of my contract.

Please understand I’m not a money hungry monster. But when a company (and let’s face it, these schools are still businesses) plays it fast and loose with pay in the contract, it doesn’t bode well for what they might do while working there. I’m sure it’s a great place to work. But I’d rather be safe than sorry. Without going into details, if they had decided to take me out of the kindergarten, I would have lost almost 20% of my monthly salary. No thank you.

So I’m back in the job hunt. Ugh. The good news is Little Campus has asked me to stay until the end of June. That gives me another 3 weeks-ish to find another job.

*wipes sweat off brow*

So, I’m still leaving Little Campus. I’m leaving a bit later than thought. And I’m not going to Pohang.

posted by Kathryn in Home Life,Little Campus,Moving,Off time and have No Comments

May

Changes!

I will be moving shortly. Like in less than a month. I’ve accepted a new job at one of the Korea Poly schools. This one happens to be in Pohang. They look like good schools with an interesting philosophy and curriculum.

Pohang is an industrial city near the east coast of South Korea. It’s a big steel manufacturing place. In fact, the city is a sister city of Pittsburg, PA. And their football (that is soccer) team is called the Steelers. As a loyal native Clevelander, I don’t know if I can root for them. But I’ll try. :-)

Check out their city website. There appear to be quite a few beaches as well as temples, museums (the POSCO steel museum looks interesting) and markets to visit. I’m looking forward to living in a new place, though I’m sad to leave my friends in Ulsan behind. Luckily, it’s not that far from Ulsan. I’ve been told it’s about an hour and a half away.

posted by Kathryn in Home Life,Moving,Pohang and have No Comments

Jan

My New Home

So I’ve made the jump over to my self-hosted WordPress installation. It was somewhat easier than I was expecting. Getting the front page of the site up was not an easy thing. Oh the getting it on the server part was easy, it was the creating it part that was difficult. I don’t remember much HTML and I can’t wrap my head around CSS. Thus, I used a table based layout template I found somewhere on the web. I know it’s so 1997, but at the moment, I have other things that I want to learn.

Keep checking back. I’m working on getting all my content moved.

posted by Kathryn in Moving,Off time and have No Comments

Jan