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OMG!! Can't believe the day is finally here and I am seeing Toto live in Korea on their very last show of their two year world tour!!  It's their last planned show indefinitely!  While planning this trip to Seoul, I reached out to a fellow TBer that I knew was stationed in Seoul.  I told him why I was coming out there and he went and checked out Toto's website and music and ended up liking them so much, he bought tickets to the show as well!  How cool is that?!?!  I'...

This was my second trip to Korea, the last one, most of my time was spent around the vicinity of Seoul. This time I spent more time in the middle of the country. Good times!

Erin and I went down to Osan today to meet up with some of our pilots friends, and to partake in the shopping that is rumored to be the best in Korea. It was absolutely freezing (and still snowing!) in Seoul, so we layered up and headed down to Osan. The trip took about one and a half hours by train, but we messed up the transfer, so it probably should have taken less time! When we finally arrived, we wandered our way to the base, met up with our friends and then let them lead us around findi...

Me and Matthew Craddock are teaching in Osan for a year.

Some teaching, some travelling, and making a fool of myself as I pursue Korean fluency.. Will it be my home?

At the beginning of the week our Sonsangnim, Park Hye Suk, informed our class that on the last day of our Korean lessons she would take us for a picnic in the mountains.  Everyone seemed pumped so she told us to pack some snacks and we'd head out immediately after class was over on Thursday. When I woke up Thursday morning the sky was a gloomy gray and it had definitely rained quite a bit.  Nevertheless, I prepared a delicious feast of mini weanies, hardboiled eggs, carrots, a...