Some Excerpts From Individual Emails

"When I was sitting in my Renaissance Drama class, or writing a paper on the Biblical allusions in the Post-moderns fairy tales of Robert Coover it never once crossed my mind that I'd one day be in Seoul, South Korea drawing and coloring flash cards to teach a group of elementary students to sing "Alice the Camel". You know how hard it is to get the proportions right on a camel with five humps? Do you?!"

"Yesterday I got to sing, dance and do sign language for three hours while learning childrens songs like long legge'd sailor and the lion king theme song it was fun."

"My apartment is awesome."

"Grades 3-4 are kind of surreal actually. I feel like a really lame gameshow host or something."

"...And then I woke up on a couch in an apartment that, although it looked eerily like my own, was not my own. The couch was white instead of brown and there was a fat, hairy, middle-aged man in tighty-whities sprawled less than magestically on the floor."

"They did the ceremony and then we ate the cakes (dry and ricey) and drank a couple bottles of Macarai (rice whiskey, yes, it's every bit as good as it sounds). It's kind of like if you watered down real whiskey with the water that you boiled rice in,or put whiskey into rice pudding maybe."

"Oh, you want some humour? I couldn't read the instructions on my clothes iron and ended up leaving it on all day and melting it and the stand it sits on. I'm sure I just about burned down my apartment. He he. Whoops!"

"Remember how much of a pain in the ass it was to divy up a grocery receipt? Try doing it when the receipt is in Korean and the smallest price on the thing is 6,500. Michael and I did just that when we went to Costco the other day. Wheeeee!"

"I'll just end by saying that, so far, my job is pretty easy, living is cheap and fun is plentiful."