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taylor

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About Me

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My Interests

art, sewing, mischief, love, trains, buses, bicycles, Korea

I'd like to meet:

Stranger! if you, passing me, meet me, and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? Walt Whitmananyone who wants to teach English in Korea- contact me.

Music:

Jacob Perkins and the Nobody!!!! Of Montreal, James Brown, Los Acetatos, Los Cuchillos, Continental, The Pixies, Beck, Jane's Addiction, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Violent Femmes, The Smiths, The Cure, the Arcade Fire, Talking Heads, The White Stripes, Portishead, the Dead Milk Men, Michael Jackon, Patsy Cline, Dancebot, Workout, The Blow, The Snuggle Ups, Ween, The Magnetic Fields, halobenders, Nada, Mason Jennings, P-FUNK, the Supremes, Plastilina Mosh, Pavement, Cake, Beastie Boys, Bright Eyes, Yo la Tengo, Missy Elliot, Lovage, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Porno for Pyros, Wolf parade, Glass Candy, Amy Winehouse, RJD2, Simon & Garfunkel

Movies:

no

Television:

no

Books:

yes

Heroes:

Sonya Collier Miranda , Jimmy Carter

My Blog

great article about Korean students from the New York Times

SEOUL, South Korea  It is 10:30 p.m. and students at the elite Daewon prep school here are cramming in a study hall that ends a 15-hour school day. A window is propped open so the evening chill can k...
Posted by taylor on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:51:00 PST

back in Korea

We're home now.  Sorry I got lazy about blogging towards the end of the trip.   All I can say is that Thailand was GREAT!  Meeting up with Hana and Jake, and then Amanda and Sean w...
Posted by taylor on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:07:00 PST

Teenage escorts and Loy Krathong

Another full moon, another festival. Travis and I have a history of spending foreign holidays in small towns, so we opted to leave crowded MaeHongSon and travel further South to MaeSariang, a tow...
Posted by taylor on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:32:00 PST

"chilling" in Pai

We've been in Thailand for the past week, and I keep thinking about Laos. How can a country bordered by 1 billion Chinese, 80 million Vietnamese and 65 million Thais have a population of only 5.5 mill...
Posted by taylor on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:56:00 PST

The Farm

We met Laura, the world's friendliest Spaniard, on the bus from Savannakhet to Vientiane.  She mistook us for South Americans, we were flattered, and became fast friends.  A few days la...
Posted by taylor on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:53:00 PST

Enjoying the festiva high on English

We left Vietnam urgently and abruptly in hopes of catching  a Buddhist festival in Vientianne, the capital of Laos.  We prompty forgot about the holiday after 13 long  hours spent on bu...
Posted by taylor on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:28:00 PST

Easy Ride

In Vietnam the motorbike is king.  There are at least 30 motorbikes for every one car.  Morning traffic looks like a sea of bikes and motorcycles topped by ladies in face masks and men with ...
Posted by taylor on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:12:00 PST

Blown away: Hanoi & Hoi An

Wow!  It's been hard to keep up on blogging because Vietnam is so damn exciting. Hanoi was a rush.  The city was old and lovely, but extremely crowded.  Houses crowded with family membe...
Posted by taylor on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:34:00 PST

H’mong-ous little friends

The moment we got off the minibus that transported usfrom the China-Viet Nam border to the sleepy touristtown, Sapa, a pack of teenage girls was ready to meetand greet us.  Missing my students ba...
Posted by taylor on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:48:00 PST

morning in Guilin

I got up at 6:30 this morning.  It's always awkward waking up early in a hostel dorm because you can't turn on the lights or make much noise.  So I slipped on jeans, creept out the door thro...
Posted by taylor on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:32:00 PST