Introduction

Whenever I let my students ask me personal questions, they come up with a pretty standard list:
How old are you?
Are you married?
Where are you from?
How long have you been in Korea?
What is your favorite Korean food?
Why did you come to Korea?

While all those questions may be interesting, after ten years in Korea giving the standard answers  begins to seem a little bit boring.  Actually, only one of them will even give you any insight into my personality.  How much can you really learn about a person if you know that their favorite food is Kimchi Bokkum-bap?
Instead of giving you my noral answers to all of the questions, I'll answer one of the questions with two lies and one true answer.  If you think you know which one is true, leave a comment on the blog. 

Question:
Why did you come to Korea?
1.  I fell in love with a Korean girl who was studying in my home country.  When she had to move back to Korea because her visa expired I decided that I could not live without her, so I quit my job at my local government office and found a job here.   I started in finance but switched to teaching after I came to GLPS and started working with really nice students. 
2. I was working for an internet based sales company but I didn't really like my job.  My apartment rental contract was going to expire and I needed a new place to stay.  Most of the people in my family are teachers of some sort and I had always wanted to teach and travel so I looked all over the world for opportunities.  Korea was the first place to give me a reasonable situation so I decided to move here. 
3. There was a lot of crime in the town I lived in.  The police were investigating a number of different bank robberies that they believed were all done by the same person.  I don't know why, and I am really not guilty, but they decided to begin investigating me.  The police called me in to their offices so many times that I decided I needed to leave town, and the country.  I took all my savings, got on a plane and started to travel.  When I finally began to run out of money I was in the Philippines.  I quickly found out that I could work in a camp in Korea and I contacted KMLA for an opportunity.  They liked my interview so I came here. 

Leave a comment telling me which one you believe and I will tell you more in another blog post.