Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids

Author: Brynn

  • B-Sam is a pollener englishy teacher

    I suppose this post is long overdue seeing as teaching is what I spend the majority of time doing. It’s something I’ve put off for a couple of reasons. One, it’s hard to write about an everyday occurrence and make it interesting and two, it took me a little bit…

  • International Archery Championship

    This week in Ulsan is the International Archery Championship since we have a lot of time on our hands, and when else are you going to get the chance to see an archery tournament, we decided to check it out. Jacob passed on the morning trip so it was just…

  • Can you live in Korea?

    As Jacob shared below, there are a lot of differences between western society and the east. To help you decide if you’d like to switch, we’ve created some polls. There are pictures included for help with the decision process. Enjoy! If you would have chosen “none of the above” for…

  • Ajummas and Noraebangs

    Saturday was a fairly eventful day for us especially in our new Korean standards. Teaching doesn’t really take up all that much time for me, I only teach from 3-9 and have an hour off every day in that period so I have a lot of free time. This usually…

  • Home Sweet Home

    Apartment, originally uploaded by A photo a day…. This is a quick video of where we live in Nammok. Nammok is a district of Ulsan, South Korea. We were really fortunate and have a huge apartment, complete with an oven and bathtub. This is not common in Korea.

  • We moved to the future – or was it the past?

    In some ways Korea is a very modern and efficient country and in other ways it seems to be stuck in a time warp. Everywhere you look there are cell phone stores, often 6-10 on a block. Everyone has a cell phone, children run around with them at about the…

  • First Impressions

    I’d have to say that my first thoughts after walking around for a few hours today is that I’m a bit overwhelmed. We didn’t do a whole lot today mostly because we can’t really figure out what to do. In some ways this is exactly what I had expected and…

  • If you fly for 24 hours you can race the sun and move to the future

    Well we’ve made it. For those of you who are curious, to move to the future all it takes is 4 flights, 12 time zone changes, 1 date line and 25 hours of flying. Honestly, the flying wasn’t nearly as bad as I had anticipated. This was probably partially due…