2013/07/11

The Index, a Year in Seoul at Ewha Womans University


August 25, 2012 – July 13, 2013
Number of classes taught

4
Number of new preps for these classes
4


Largest class size
103 students (all first-year)

Smallest class size
3 (all graduate students)

Number of male students taught in these 4 classes

2
% of persons encountered every weekday who were male

1
# of countries represented in my classes
16, from France, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, China, The Netherlands, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, The Philippines, USA, Finland, Nigeria, Poland

Number of pounds lost
5

Space, in square feet, of living arrangements, approximately

289
# of sermons preached

6
# of books read
15
     Best one read
Cloud Atlas
     Longest one
Game of Thrones (five vols.)

# of months lived without a car, a cell phone, keys, and a stove to cook upon

11
Of these four, the one missed the most

The stove to cook upon
Most paid for a large box of Quaker Oatmeal

$19.00

# of pictures taken

2915
# of Buddhist temples visited

15
# of Christian churches visited

6
# of times visited the world’s largest (in membership) church

2
# of Hikes taken with the Seoul International Hiking Club

25
Most famous person I met in Seoul

Jane Goodall
# of people for whom I was named “godfather”

1
# of courses I proposed to teach for the International Summer School at Ewha, July 2014
      
4
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Dear Readers, Friends, Family,

Thank you for your reading and your comments. I hope this year has been for you, as it has been for Grace and me, a wondrous, magical and most restful year.

Marc

4 comments:

  1. Welcoming you and Grace home to more familiar surroundings. jim

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  2. I'm thankful our lives intersected in Korea for a few months. Thanks for the good memories of times together. Regina Wolfer

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  3. Man, that year went by fast. I just told David (your clone) that you were still in Korea just the other day.

    Thanks for taking us on the many hikes, tours and adventures!

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  4. Well done, thou good and faithful ones! Welcome home, Grace and Marc. We love you, Valorie and John, Nathan and Martha

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