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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Quick note from work today.
I thought these were too funny not to share. Linda (My co-teacher) brought in this picture book "My First Dictionary" and we were quizzing the students from it. We did dentist which turned into telling the kids a whole bunch of technical names for different kinds of doctors. Including Gynecologist. I got to teach 12 year old Korean kids gynecologist. We also do this simple game with them sometimes to help them with left and right since they still mix those up. Raise your right arm, touch your left hip, et cetera. Linda added a new command to it today. Touch your right knee. But she had started with touch your left hip. So I'm standing in front of the kids doing the Captain Morgan's pose. My job is so weird sometimes.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Another good weekend
Lots of coffee shop time and good food. I think I'm not taking as many pictures anymore because things are becoming familiar. We spent most of the weekend in Songtan. Spent quite a bit of time in The Coffee Tree there. Yum. Really awesome drinks and smoothies. Some gaming for the boys, some internet surfing for me.
Yesterday was an adventure/ordeal. Justin and I really just
wanted to stay home, but ended up making the trek to Songtan again. The promise of Karin coming from Incheon and real breakfast burritos lured us there. We finally got the burritos around 2 pm. But they were worth it. Real bacon, cheese, hash browns, SALSA. Mmmmm....The rest of the weekend was relaxing. Movies, reading, sudoku. Another week is here. Looks like we've got some big plans for this next weekend though. More to come.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Weekend Update, a little late
I've been recovering from the weekend, so I'm finally ready to post again. It was very busy.
Friday night, Tim came to visit. We got pizza!! It was actually pretty good, even though it had corn on it. Why? Why corn on everything???
Saturday, Tim came over and we took the subway for the first time. We went to Itaewon, in Seoul. It is the "little America"
of Korea. We had some very odd sushi. There was ham, mustard, and ketchup on some of it! We met up with some people that Tim knew, Karin and Lexi. They took me to get some pampering. Pedicure! It was awesome. I got green toes, cuz they celebrated St. Patrick's Day on Saturday. After that, we headed over to the !English! bookstore. Used and new books. A little expensive, but can you get them anywhere else? No... There is also an international market that we stopped by. Lots of Middle Eastern food. I was so excited to see all the spices they had there. Garam Masala and Turmeric! I'm going to be making some Indian food, for sure.
Sunday Justin and Tim had the morning to themselves for some gaming, and I met up with them later for lunch. Again, amazing food. We had Thai. AMAZING. Love that place. Then we hopped on the subway to Suwon to see Watchmen in the theater. We also got to meet a couple more of Tim's friends, Stacey and Michael. I really hope I'm spelling everyone's names right!!
There was lots of walking and busyness this weekend, so I
had to take a couple days to recover. So far, a good week. Maybe we will try out hiking or the hot springs soon. It is definitely warmer than it has been.안녕
Uptown Girl
I gotta post this real quick between class. I got to teach my kids "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel today! Freakin sweet. I was not expecting that at all. Also when the class ended I think one of the girls blew me a kiss and four of them did this little dance thing that I assume is from some Korean video and said "That's so hot." I gotta find out what that's about.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Me, Myself, and I
Sorry I haven't posted lately, everyone. Work has been a mental drain and when I get home I just want to relax instead of post or anything. You want the scoop on me? Here it comes.
I'm adjusting a little more every day. Having Caroline here with me and Tim nearby is awesome. Tim keeps introducing us to new people he knows. Between getting time with my Girl (and thereby the blueberry), my Tim, and the new friends he introduces us to I'm keeping sane. Also, Tim and I are playing some scion which is awesome-cross. His character is a Scion of Odin built around becoming the Norse God of Wolves. Dad is hoping he will be able to cast down the fenris wolf come ragnarok and change the fate of the Aesir. Oughta be an interesting game.
Not being able to communicate is stressful. This especially comes up with my co-teacher. Sometimes she is trying to explain things to me that I can tell are important for my job but she doesn't know enough English to do so well. It really stresses me out. Other than that things are good at work. The kids are cool, though crazy. One day I had to do an autograph session for them. Seriously...almost a whole class came up to me and asked me to sign their workbooks. That was really weird. Another class all wanted me to shake their hands. A bunch of students gave me candy one day. Its always an adventure with them. The material I'm being given to teach them is very pre-school bubblegum crap though. I'm going to need to really get together a some decent material here soon. Lunch is another adventure. We get Kimchi everyday, which I like though it can sometimes be to spicy or too fermented. We also get a soup dish which has usually been pretty good. Also a dessert which has been bananas, a yogurt drink, strawberries, dumpling things, and cherry tomatoes. Everything else is a crap shoot. Our meat one day was fried fish which I couldn't eat cause it was full of bones. It's like they fish for bone fish here or something. Then today it was a tasty chicken thing. Notice how I often can't give you a good description of the food. Like I said lunch is an adventure.
I'm sure things will continue to get easier bit by bit, day by day. I'll be adding some pictures to this post later and editing it for grammar. I'm not feeling up to the task just yet.
I'm adjusting a little more every day. Having Caroline here with me and Tim nearby is awesome. Tim keeps introducing us to new people he knows. Between getting time with my Girl (and thereby the blueberry), my Tim, and the new friends he introduces us to I'm keeping sane. Also, Tim and I are playing some scion which is awesome-cross. His character is a Scion of Odin built around becoming the Norse God of Wolves. Dad is hoping he will be able to cast down the fenris wolf come ragnarok and change the fate of the Aesir. Oughta be an interesting game.
Not being able to communicate is stressful. This especially comes up with my co-teacher. Sometimes she is trying to explain things to me that I can tell are important for my job but she doesn't know enough English to do so well. It really stresses me out. Other than that things are good at work. The kids are cool, though crazy. One day I had to do an autograph session for them. Seriously...almost a whole class came up to me and asked me to sign their workbooks. That was really weird. Another class all wanted me to shake their hands. A bunch of students gave me candy one day. Its always an adventure with them. The material I'm being given to teach them is very pre-school bubblegum crap though. I'm going to need to really get together a some decent material here soon. Lunch is another adventure. We get Kimchi everyday, which I like though it can sometimes be to spicy or too fermented. We also get a soup dish which has usually been pretty good. Also a dessert which has been bananas, a yogurt drink, strawberries, dumpling things, and cherry tomatoes. Everything else is a crap shoot. Our meat one day was fried fish which I couldn't eat cause it was full of bones. It's like they fish for bone fish here or something. Then today it was a tasty chicken thing. Notice how I often can't give you a good description of the food. Like I said lunch is an adventure.
I'm sure things will continue to get easier bit by bit, day by day. I'll be adding some pictures to this post later and editing it for grammar. I'm not feeling up to the task just yet.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Food!!
It has been...different...trying Korean food. I think I really don't like it that much. A 
lot of red chili, red pepper, and fermentation. We have gone to a couple restaurants so far. The first one was right across the street from the apt. building. It was strange. The traditional Korean thing is to have pork or beef ribs that they grill for you at the table. There is a grill set into the middle of the table. Then they give you about 3 million side dishes. These include kimchi, of course. Usually several different kinds of kimchi. There is a salad made with cabbage and soy sauce, another salad with lettuce and I think asian mayonnaise. There was corn and crab, seaweed soup, and a few others. When the meat is cooked, you can wrap it in a piece of lettuce with some garlic and red chili paste. That meal my tummy was off, so I stuck to the meat and lettuce only. It was pretty good.
Night before last we went to a welcoming dinner for all the new teachers at the school. That restaurant was MUCH better in my opinion. The meat (pork ribs) tasted better, there were better sides too. There was some sausage slices, salads, crab legs, kimchi, broccoli, pickled radish, rice noodles with different sauces, and my favorite, a scoop of something like yams with golden raisens with a kiwi sauce. Yum. There was lots of food, lots of soju, and lots of teachers taking shots. Afterwards, they dragged us across the street for some Korean Karaoke. Hilarious! Even at the karaoke place, there was some strange snack of
strips of dried squid w/ peanuts and mayo dipping sauce. And of course, more beer.
Last night, Justin and I went out again to a Japanese place. More my kind of food, for sure. We got a platter with over 20 pieces of nigiri and 2 rolls for 20,000 won. It also included some kimchi and miso soup. Very yummy. We will definitely be going back there soon. It is also flanked by Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins. There are so many sweet shops around here. It surprises me. Pastries, cakes, ice cream, candy, SO much junk food. According to Justin, if we are checking out the Korean culture, that includes the bakeries!! I guess that's ok with me...
That's been most of our food experience so far. Otherwise, we eat simply at home. Eggs and rice. Hot dogs for me. Had a craving. :) That's about it. Justin eats Korean lunches at school, he'll tell you more about that in his post about school, I'm sure.
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lot of red chili, red pepper, and fermentation. We have gone to a couple restaurants so far. The first one was right across the street from the apt. building. It was strange. The traditional Korean thing is to have pork or beef ribs that they grill for you at the table. There is a grill set into the middle of the table. Then they give you about 3 million side dishes. These include kimchi, of course. Usually several different kinds of kimchi. There is a salad made with cabbage and soy sauce, another salad with lettuce and I think asian mayonnaise. There was corn and crab, seaweed soup, and a few others. When the meat is cooked, you can wrap it in a piece of lettuce with some garlic and red chili paste. That meal my tummy was off, so I stuck to the meat and lettuce only. It was pretty good.
Night before last we went to a welcoming dinner for all the new teachers at the school. That restaurant was MUCH better in my opinion. The meat (pork ribs) tasted better, there were better sides too. There was some sausage slices, salads, crab legs, kimchi, broccoli, pickled radish, rice noodles with different sauces, and my favorite, a scoop of something like yams with golden raisens with a kiwi sauce. Yum. There was lots of food, lots of soju, and lots of teachers taking shots. Afterwards, they dragged us across the street for some Korean Karaoke. Hilarious! Even at the karaoke place, there was some strange snack of
strips of dried squid w/ peanuts and mayo dipping sauce. And of course, more beer.Last night, Justin and I went out again to a Japanese place. More my kind of food, for sure. We got a platter with over 20 pieces of nigiri and 2 rolls for 20,000 won. It also included some kimchi and miso soup. Very yummy. We will definitely be going back there soon. It is also flanked by Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins. There are so many sweet shops around here. It surprises me. Pastries, cakes, ice cream, candy, SO much junk food. According to Justin, if we are checking out the Korean culture, that includes the bakeries!! I guess that's ok with me...
That's been most of our food experience so far. Otherwise, we eat simply at home. Eggs and rice. Hot dogs for me. Had a craving. :) That's about it. Justin eats Korean lunches at school, he'll tell you more about that in his post about school, I'm sure.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Battery low
Ok, I've been here awhile. And my battery is in the red now. I will save the other posts for tomorrow. It has been great being able to update this finally!! Hope these were some interesting reads!
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