FulbrightKorea – Habitually Being: thoughts worth living.

Stephen Speers and I explore Jungwon (Fulbright: 1 Year Since)

13 Jul 201615 Jul 2019

For those of you who have been following my blog, you know that there is not much to follow. In short, this grant year, I have done horribly at documenting…

Visiting Gwangju: Mid-term school observation trip report.

1 May 20161 May 2016

My principal gave me mid-terms off to travel to Gwangju, under the condition that I write a report and take pictures about what I saw. So, I thought, let's kill…

What have I been doing?

14 Feb 201614 Feb 2016

Things went dark around here after week 3.5 in orientation. Turns out Fulbright Korea Orientation gets pretty busy. Perhaps, around April, I will post about that. Just in time for…

Fulbright Orientation Week 3: Why I love visiting churches and Why ecclesiology is like surgery.

2 Aug 20154 Aug 2015

I am thankful for those of my ETA friends who consistently put up with my slow learning. Each time we are out, they correct my lacking Korean pronunciation. And, as…

Fulbright Orientation Week 2-2.5: It’s a bit of a blur, really.

29 Jul 20152 Aug 2015

"Orientation, I remember that," an undisclosed renewing Fulbright grantee said to me, wistfully, as remembering childhood in a sort of Richard-Dreyfuss-narrating- Stephen-King's-Stand-by-Me-tone:. The tone indicated a mix of horror and…

Fulbright Orientation Week 1: Yohan learns kimchi is a fact of life, but he does not like it. (He likes everything else swell though).

18 Jul 201518 Jul 2015

Blog post on Monday, July 13th- Saturday, July 17th, 2015. After a long time of travel, all the ETAs (English teaching assistants) arrived at the Incheon airport outside of Seoul, filled out paper…

The sun has set in the west. The sun also rises in the east.

10 Jul 201510 Jul 2015

The sun has set the last time for me over the skies of Ohio and Kentucky. Last night, celebrating at Connor and Georgia's wedding, I looked over the treeline at…

My alma mater featured my Fulbright grant award!

1 Jun 20152 Jun 2015

The feature includes all three Fulbright grant award recipients from Georgetown College: Collin Smith, Victoria Engelhardt, and me. All three of us are relatively recent alumni of the college. I…