New website

Hi all,

This website has changed addresses -

you can now find the adventures of Strangee at

www.strangee.com

Check out the new updates!

The Hangober

Fan Death 4

Whoops!

Off Bloadway

I swear half the budget at my last hagwon was set aside for the annual play. They had the most amazing costumes and each child had a microphone a la Britney Spears, it was quite the spectacle. The school even hired out a theatre for the night.

The craziest thing by far though was the loooong time put in to train these little tykes into learning lines, songs and dances. The Korean teachers spent weeks and weeks preparing the kids for the performance and gosh darn it, they didn't dumb down the coreography for anyone!
I remember doing school performances back in the day, but we never had to learn rigorous dance moves or soliloquies boot camp-style like these Korean children do.

The kiddies were great and the performance was pretty impressive, but I don't know if all that money and time was worth the kids' stress. Korean students work so hard; they never seem to catch a break from the age of 3 (kindergarten) to 18 or 19 when they finish high school. As cute as they looked, I would never want to put my children through that.

Laundry Day

I saw this guy in the elevator last week. I swear, Korea is the only place where you can see leopard skin pants and gigantic Harry Potter glasses in the same vicinity.

Fan Death 3

Fan Death 2