http://squarehe.com/squarehe.rss photos and an account of all my adventures, particularly traveling, teaching english, and eating delicious food in korea the past two years. Copyright 2007 Matthew Gadbois Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:44:27 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0686.php on sunday, march 4th i was staying with my friends david and kathy. kathy's working on an internet sitcom with a few of her friends, and that day they were shooting so david and i brought lunch for them. david's the official photographer, so in be... (6 images with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0686.php Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:44:27 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0685.php on saturday, march 3rd my very good friend got married to her longtime boyfriend peter. both the ceremony and the reception were held at a beverly hills restaurant, and i think it worked out really well having it all in one place. everyone there se... (11 images with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0685.php Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:43:28 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0684.php on friday, march 2nd my good friend david let me borrow his car for the afternoon and i drove around burbank looking for apartments. i didn't really have much luck, but it was nice driving around the town i had lived in before i went to korea. i wa... (3 images with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0684.php Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:10:29 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0683.php thursday, march 1st my friends koizu and natalie took me to a koreatown pork barbecue restaurant i'd never tried before called 꿀돼지 (gool doeji, translated as honey pig). i'm pretty excited to have found another great koreatown restaurant to ad... (7 images with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0683.php Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:17:58 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0682.php one of the first things i did once i got back to america was to get a new cell phone. i really wanted to try and activate my korean cell phone since i liked it so much, but after doing some online research it looked like it wasn't possible. so i we... (2 images with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0682.php Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:46:40 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0681.php my friend koizu was nice enough to let me crash at his apartment for about a week in simi valley where he was living at the time i arrived back in the states in late february. i spent that week mostly getting adjusted to the time change and hanging ... (5 images with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0681.php Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:40:07 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0680.php on the morning of friday, february 23, after two years of living in korea, i left and came back to america. i left my apartment around 6:00a, but before i left i had one last look around. it's funny because it's only now that i realize that while m... (6 images with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0680.php Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:20:09 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0679.php thursday, february 22nd was my last evening in korea. i met my good friend hyejin for dinner at my favorite 돼지길비 (doeji kalbi, barbecued pork) restaurant in my old neighborhood in 논현 (nonhyeon). oddly enough, since i've been back in los... (10 images with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0679.php Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:41:36 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0678.php two days before i left korea, on wednesday, february 21st, i hung out with my good friends sam and yejee on last time. we started off with a delicious dinner in a really small and inexpensive place in an alley in 홍대 (hongdae). yejee went to sch... (9 images with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0678.php Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:56:30 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0677.php although i tried living simply, after two years of living in korea i'd accumulated a lot of stuff. so when it came time to return to america, i had to figure out what to do with everything. i went through it all and narrowed it down, but i still ha... (3 images with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0677.php Wed, 30 May 2007 23:03:28 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0676.php a few days before i was set to leave korea, i had a farewell dinner with some teachers from my school. these were the teachers that i taught in an informal english class once a week for a lot of the year. often we would go out to dinner after the c... (8 images with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0676.php Tue, 29 May 2007 22:41:48 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0675.php by monday, february 19th, i was less than a week away from leaving korea and moving back to america. ally, my co-teacher from the elementary school, invited me over to her house for a farewell dinner. it was around the 설날 (seollal) holiday, the... (11 images with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0675.php Fri, 25 May 2007 00:04:51 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0674.php on the evening of thursday, february 15th, i met sun and selena in downtown seoul and we went to this fantastic samgyetang restaurant nearby city hall. according to them, current and former korean presidents favor that place for this delicious chick... (1 image with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0674.php Fri, 18 May 2007 00:42:50 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0673.php on my last day at the elementary school we went to lunch at a nearby restaurant that we'd never tried before. it was a kind of mom and pop place, and i think the guy who served us was really excited that a couple of foreigners came to his humble res... (7 images with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0673.php Wed, 16 May 2007 23:29:46 +0800 http://squarehe.com/archive/0672.php i got some pictures on my last day of the english classroom i worked in all year. that room was called the 어학실 (eohakshil), which literally means language classroom. my korean teaching partner ally and i both had desks in there, so that's whe... (3 images with this post) http://squarehe.com/archive/0672.php Mon, 14 May 2007 23:57:12 +0800