Basil and I were joking around earlier. I still meet with him sometimes for coffee or whatever, even though we’re no longer colleagues. We were “focusing on the positive” about being in Korea, and about working at LBridge (my current and his former employer). The joke was: well, one thing that’s nice about LBridge is the urinal in the men’s bathroom. It has a window, and you look out on the alleyway behind the school and the apartments across the way. There are lots of flowers and trees, the air is fresh, you can watch people walking by on the street below. I’ve watched a cat that lives among the bushes occasionally venturing out, when no one was about. So, one thing I like about LBridge is the urinal.
I decided that that made for a rather forlorn list, all by itself. I have probably spent too much time over the last 9 months thinking of things I didn’t like about this place, so here is a list of things I like about LBridge, that tries to add at least a few things.
the urinal
the fact that each teacher has a computer (my last two hagwon didn’t)
some of my coworkers (Peter, Christine, Joe, Jenica… sometimes Sean is nice, sometimes Sarah)
the color printers
the consistency in designed syllabi
… most of all: the students! the students are awesome.
