The Deal

So, here's the deal:

After twenty-plus years teaching science and math in semi-rural Georgia, I received a contract to teach Conversational English in a public school of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education. I sought and got this job because Korea has a robust, hi-tech, export-oriented economy in which English language education is highly valued.

I have a paid-for '02 Chevy S-10 pick-up, and a nice house with a few years' equity, and most of my family within an hour's drive. Follow my travails as I decide how to deal with my property, prepare to travel and attempt to learn Korean basics. And that's just in the next month.

Over the next year or more, I hope to author a weblog that will entertain, educate and challenge both of us as I place my Korean experience under the blogoscope. Hopefully, I will hear from you. I expect high times and hilarity, but I also anticipate homesickness and difficulties. As much as anything is, my motto must be what Eubie Blake said, "Pay the thunder no mind; listen to the birds."