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Blast From the Past: Kickin’ (Soccer) Balls

Originally written March 14, 2007 Oh, Herro! Well, as you may be able to tell the Fightin’ Nagasaki Fly Hawk(s) FC finally showed their full potential and won the first game of the season! However, the game was not without…

A Good Week for a Good Week

So, dear readers, you may have noticed my silence this week. Well, I’ve been busy, so busy, that I’ve had precious little time to devote to my beloved blog. Before I get started: last news first, I’m surfing the interwebs…

The Royal Pooch

So far, I think I’ve been asked about how Sydney is doing more often than myself. This is perfectly understandable, she did not choose to come here and living in a small apartment in a huge concrete jungle is not…

I’m not dead yet

OK, so a quick update: you will be happy to know that I have made a complete recovery from a really nasty case of tonsillitis (probably strep). It was slow-going at first, only feeling marginally better on my first day…

Blast from the Past: Camping, Sake, and Naked Irishmen

Originally written October 12, 2006 Good morning (or night to most of you),I have finally recovered from the long weekend and I am proud to report that I have lived to tell the tale! For some reason I remember having…

Night and Day, Day and Night

I awoke this morning feeling absolutely identical to yesterday morning. In a word, miserable. I rolled out of bed, used my stolen wifi to e-mail my boss to tell him that I couldn’t come in again today. I go back…

Hospital, New Apartment, and Not Yet Settling In

September 13, 2010 15:55 I don’t want to be writing this blog. No, I wanted to be writing about the awesome time I had at the F.C. Seoul soccer match on Saturday. However, I’ll have to save that blog for…

Putting it in Perspective

September 9, 2010 22:42 It was a bit of a surreal experience watching my coworker, Chris, have such a horrible day. He’s leaving Korea Poly School after 4 years this week and the school more or less reneged on a…

Blast from the Past: I am not currently, nor have I ever been a member of the Communist Party

Originally written May 14, 2007 Somewhere between the growing economic powerhouse of China to the north and the developing Southeast Asian powers of Vietnam and Thailand to the east and west, respectively, lies the small, landlocked nation of Laos. Technically…

Money for Nothin’ and Grad School for Free

On our walk this evening, an old man saluted Sydney. In other news: Interesting development, I found out over the course of a couple of beers with a Swedish Couchsurfer that grad school in Scandinavia is free to foreigners. Free.…

A Day in the Life

I’ve often compared living abroad to being an alcoholic: you have to take things one day at a time. There are great days. GREAT days. Days where you are just amazed at all the sights and sounds and new experiences…