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To get an idea of what it is like to teach English to Asian children everyday, we present this enjoyable video. Just to be clear, we did not create this video, but instead learned of it when studying for our TEFOL certificate.

Click here to learn more about this video.

Today is my dad’s birthday and I just wanted to send him birthday wishes in convenient blog format. He is probably the most frequent reader of this blog, reloading and reloading and reloading the page. He is quite young.

Today he turns 35.

Dad, If you were in South Korea, we could take you out for birthday chicken galbi and kim chi! We’ll make it up to you when you come visit us. Happy birthday, Dad!

Leave birthday wishes in the comments below. And, send him an iCard.

As you may or may not have noticed, we recently lost all of your encouraging comments on all of our entries since we started this project on December 2nd. We take this moment to ask you to sign our guestbook by leaving a comment here on this page. Whether you are a friend, family member or you simply found this site by accident, we'd like to hear your thoughts!

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I am not a big fan of posting my adventures on travel sites like Travelpod.com, or Yahoo! Travel, or even posting a lot of stuff on my Facebook profile. I like the side of the Web where people custom tailor their pages (even if it is made automatically for me with iWeb). But in my constant nerdery and cool-hounding I stumbled upon something today that is a lot of fun, and I wanted to share it with you guys!

It is called the Traveler IQ Challenge (http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq). It’s fun to test your hand at, and gives you interesting facts about each place you have to pin on the map. For example, did you know that Oslo, Norway was called "Christiania" from 1624 to the 1924?

You can see how smart you are right now and see if you really know where South Korea is on the map! You might be surprised!

Not long after graduating from University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Megan Glunz & Jay Robinson got a hare-brained scheme to head off to Europe. Inspired by friends, they would find an English academy and sign a one-year contract in order to fund their zany adventures. From their preferred location in northern Italy, they would venture out on weekends to see much of the European continent. Soon, they had paid for classes from Oxford Seminars, and headed off to complete the classes while staying with Megan's parents in Arizona.

We got our teaching certificates from Oxford Seminars, taking classes at ASU in Scottsdale, Arizona for 3 weeks. The classes took a lot of our time, but were worthwhile. As you now see, our plans to live in Italy for 2008 have turned to South Korea. Italy turned out to be a country in which it is very hard to find work; they much prefer EU citizens as English teachers. So instead of having to pay for tickets there, and then pay for our own place out of which we'd venture out to find illegal work, we tried to take a safer route! Hearing of the opportunities for teachers in South Korea, we began to seach Craigslist.org, of all places, for Want ads for English teachers. After a few failed attempts with various recruiters, provided to us by Oxford Seminars, who tried to place us directly in the Korean Demilitarized Zone, we found an ad by the director of The Welton School in Seoul, South Korea.

Not long after we were headed to Los Angeles to get our Korean Visas. We overnighted our passports from Phoenix and just had to pick them up there. Long trip, but no hassles. Then, we just had some time to kill in LA. We explored Manhattan Beach. A few days later we flew about 13 hours over the Pacific Rim and over the International Dateline to land in Incheon, South Korea, about an hour north of Seoul. Picked up by a taxi cab driver holding a sign horribly misspelling our names. After one day of orientation and several days of jet lag, we arrived at The Welton School and started teaching classes. Which brings us to where we are at today, with one week of teaching English to Korean kids under our belts.

CONTACTING US

We are always excited to see new and encouraging comments on our blog entries or pictures pages. We love to chat with people via AOL Instant Messenger, which is a free download for Macs or PCs, or iChat if you use a Mac. Just go to the first page by clicking the link at the top and tap on our names if we are online.

We also just received our first piece of snail mail. So we figure it takes about a week to get over here which is a lot better service than we are used to when we lived in Honolulu! We love to get mail, so if you'd like to send us some, send it to this address:

ABOUT NOPEANUTBUTTER.COM

The name NoPeanutButter.com represents Megan and I leaving behind all we've ever known and been comfortable with for places we've never seen. Megan is responsible for all the good writing-- I mostly just sit around and make fart jokes. We intend this website for not only family and friends, but for making new friends, so be sure to drop us a comment or iChat if you're a first time visitor! We hope to be able to provide the same kind of insightful information we were looking for when we would Google “Living in Seoul, South Korea” or “Teaching English in Seoul, South Korea”.

Producing the website is incredibly easy. We plug the camera into the computer, iPhoto automatically organizes the pictures, and then we drag them into iWeb and type up a post. It couldn't be simpler. But don't take my word for it!, check out these sites from our friends and family made with iWeb and DotMac! Megan's mom maintains Fountain Hills Updateand her brother has a personal blog at JustinGlunz.com.

The site is built using Apple's DotMac service.

LINKS TO STATIC PAGES

About Why, this page right here!

Entries While the front page displays the latest entries to our blog, you can get a good look through all of our entries in the correct order on this page.

Food All our interesting food pictures in South Korea. Coming from Honolulu, Hawaii, I was anxious to get to the origins of Korean BBQ. But the food here is pretty different. Every time we order something it is always very spicy, usually burns our lips off!

All Pictures This is a constantly updated and unabridged stream of all the photos we've taken with our Canon PowerShot cameras.