July 2009
13 posts
More Food
Yes, more food. Normally I’d try to space them out, but since my internet connection is so hit-or-miss these days, I have to post when ever I have a strong enough signal. It’s either that or walk up to the coffee shop and there’s a finite number of times I can bee seen using my laptop in public before I’ll have to either kill myself or get a whole new wardrobe and...
Too Much Information
Me (to the whole class): So how is everyone doing today?
Jessica (Korean girl that is built like a brick shit-house): Oh, so tired.
Me: Why? Were you out late last night?
Jessica: No. I was....(thinking for the words in English and rubbing her stomach)
Me: Sick? (hoping to avoid what I could see was coming)
Jessica: I, my stomach, was (looking to another student while saying something in Korean) constipated?
Me: Uh-Huh...
Jessica: So I take, uh, some....mediss...
Me: (correcting) Medicine.
Jessica: Medicine. And then, oh...(long pause) so much diarrhea. Too much diarrhea.
Me: Oh. Well, um, are you....are you ok now?
Jessica: Yes. Diarrhea is gone.
I need to just start with the lessons instead of personalizing shit at the beginning of class.
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Adventures In Street Food #9
I went to the the biggest fish market in Korea last week in hopes of eating some weird shit. Alas, I had to go alone and my considerable lack of Korean language skills proved detrimental and I was unable to broker a deal for some still squirming octopus tentacles. next time I’ll have to go with a native speaker.
So I walked around the are for a couple hours and settled for some street...
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Kindertardn'
Mercifully, kindergarten ended on Wednesday. That’s two less classes I have to teach and several hours freed up every afternoon. And it couldn’t have happened at a better time, cause the website I was pulling crafts from was starting to run low on materials. It was hard enough to keep their attention, so if I were to come in and say “Hey kids! Who wants to make a...
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Toilet Seoul
Warning: The following post may be extremely graphic and unabashedly scatological. So you know, fair warning.
Those who know me well need not be told I treasure my time on the toilet. I’m of the mind there is no shame in taking pleasure in a prolonged engagement atop the throne. Books, magazines, the ingredient list on your shampoo bottle…the joy derived from reading any of these...
WatchA dutch commercial for an English School. It shouldn’t be a surprise the same country where weed and hookers are bountiful would do something like this. Korea should really take note and ease up a bit in their approach. I still feel like someday a hagwon is going to create a course just for adults and will make a ton of money. I’m not saying they should use songs about sodomy to...
Rain (Or, A Very Clever Rain Themed Title) #2
Just to illustrate how much it rained yesterday; this is the Cheonggye stream. There are nicely decorated paths on either side of it, where most days people can be found jogging or walking, enjoying the scenery. The stream is normally about 10-15 feet across and passes under the bridge you see with nearly 20 feet to spare. So like I said, it rained like a mother fucker.
All-Star Educator
Somehow, I think I’ve become the best teacher my company has. Or at least the best one working within the walls of the companies base. It’s quite a mystery, really.
There’s a new Korean girl teaching some of the lower level classes. Her and I were talking yesterday and she mentioned how she liked the fact we had no dress code. And she’s right. There might be a dress...
Rain (Or, A Very Clever Rain Themed Title)
The rain in Seoul today was downright impressive. From before I got up at 5:30 until just after 4 when I got off the subway coming home, the skies were open like a hookers legs, an unabated downpour drowning the city for probably 12 solid hours. It alternated between harder (skipped hard altogether) and wind swept sheets of torrential precipitation, all day long.
Thankfully I spent most of the...
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And Suddenly I'm That Guy
You know the one; sitting at the coffee shop, sipping over priced, watered down crap, while furiously hacking away on his laptop. The little glowing Apple on the front, shimmering like a spotlight, screaming to everyone “Pretentious asshole, right over here! Everyone have a look!”. Maybe I’m working on my novel. Putting the final touches on a new script that both my agent and...
June 2009
16 posts
Look Both Ways
I saw another guy get hit by a car last night. I was sitting at the corner store up the way from my house, having a Coke and trying figure out the best way to jam a grape flavored popsicle up my butt (tapered end first I reckoned) when it happened. A man on a bike came whizzing out of an alley that intersects with street I live on. A mini van was parked at the edge of the intersection, blocking...