November 2011
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Have love will travel: Canadia →
jennaonline:
I’ve avoided posting about this topic—though I’ve certainly had multiple opportunities—for the obvious reason of wanting to avoid the inevitable sh*t storm of responses from angry Canadians who already seem to have their panties in a twist in the first place when it comes to Americans.
Alas, I…
I always agree with everything this woman says. We should be friends.
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World Citizen: Ugh. →
claretea:
I completely lost it in my class this morning, and I never lose it. I cannot wait until my apathetic 3rd graders finally go to High School.
My co-teachers keep saying that because they have finished exams they no longer want or need to study. So they don’t try, they sleep, and even when I give…
It all depends on how good your co-teacher is. My good third grade co-teacher can...
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The sweater that half of Korea owns
although this version appears to be more like a cape.
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My Third Birthday Party
I forgot to mention that yesterday, five of my favorite students (the fan club girls) called me outside my office and presented me with a cute pink Paris Baguette birthday cake (purchased by one of their mothers.) It even had candles. And they had poppers.
They proceeded to devour most of the cake within seconds after the birthday song and smear most of the icing on each others’ faces, but...
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Christmas Trees and Spanish Food
I am trying to lose a little weight so I can fit into the cute free size dress I bought in the Myeongdong subway station which I wrongly thought might fit my body when I purchased it. It doesn’t. (It also does not stretch. At all.) It doesn’t help that I have no time to go to the gym and that I’m always eating some really delicious food that is not good for me.
I met my...
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비가 오다
It’s raining today and it makes me feel kind of sad, coupled with the fact that it’s only 5 PM and it’s already started getting dark. I would say I have seasonal affective disorder, but it’s no different from a Pennsylvania winter. (Actually it is really unusually warm right now. Thanks global warming, sorry polar bears.)
Whenever I’m sad, I start to really...
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Score 1 for laziness
I have just gotten permission to do three weeks of English singing and drama camp.
I will teach the girls to sing two songs. We will write a play together and then they will perform it.
This involves minimal lesson planning and exertion on my part. They will choose the songs and make up the plot of the play.
If there are extra days, we will watch movies or play Apples to Apples.
I DO NOT...
Anonymous asked: Hmmm dump your bf and pick me...I know how to text at least. He doesn't deserve a hot, intelligent woman :) email me;) pjarlington@gmail!
Is it normal in China to just talk during exams?
Writing on my phone to entertain myself/complain and make myself feel better on the bus ride home from Korean class. Hope there aren’t any typos.
I am in a really annoyed mood because our Korean teacher hadn’t put our papers on our desks a minute before EVERY SINGLE CHINESE PERSON in the class started talking. During the exam. Not even whispering but talking at a normal volume. First...
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mysocalledkoreanlife:
Posting 3D sonograms of your fetus as your profile picture. No one other than your family really wants to see that. Especially people who spend all day working with children.
LOL. As someone who has at least 100 Facebook friends with kids (most of them from high school, most of them never leaving Pennsyltucky,) I know how this person feels. Also, stop posting pictures of...
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Three Random Stories
I have no idea what’s going on at my school 99% of the time. When I do know what’s going on, it’s pretty weird. Here are three recent memories of weird things that have happened to me, or that I have been told by my students and co-workers. Every day in Korea is entertaining.
1. I had an interim substitute co-teacher while my normal, fatherly head teacher was out for a few...
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Have you ever asked if a shoe store in Korea...
Me too. I don’t even bother to ask anymore. It’s just embarrassing. One of my school nicknames is “Big Foot Teacher.”
The Sookyee Big Size Shoe Store on GMarket has an awesome under-10,000 won holiday sale going on right now. The selection isn’t too good and most of the things you are going to want will not be available in your size, but if you wear over a 255 and...
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Yesterday was my birthday
and it was kind of a crazy day.
I didn’t do anything Friday night except cook dinner (my Lotte Super had asparagus for the first time ever!), go to the gym, and watch some TV. I went to sleep before 12 because I am an old woman and am unable to stay up past midnight. I was awoken at 4 in the morning by a phone call from my boyfriend, who was still out drinking with his company coworkers....
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Oh My GMarket (O.M.G!)
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Oh my God I know I need to stop posting so much but I’m staying in tonight to prepare for my birthday party tomorrow and I’m shopping for my family’s Christmas presents on GMarket and I AM SO EXCITED RIGHT NOW!
I. LOVE. GMARKET. I buy so much stuff on here. OK, actually, not so much. But several things: shirts, sweaters, scarves, and especially shoes, because it’s one of...
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"18-year-old murders mom, hides body in apartment"
The more I read this article, the more “Wait, what?” it becomes.
“the high school senior, 18, stabbed his mother, 51, in the throat with a kitchen knife in March and left her body to decompose in a room for eight months.”
and
“Police say that the mother resorted to violence and other means of torture including withholding food or sleep, when his grades failed to...
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Anonymous asked: i just wanna drop by and let you know you're my favorite blog on tumblr, and don't listen to the internet jerks :) thank you for all the cool info you post! i know it's for your family and friends at home, but the other random tumblr people really appreciate it <3
Party in the R.O.K.: FOOD. Turkey, mashed... →
girlinseoul:
partyintherok:
Coming home from their house which is practically in North Korea, I encountered two very typical late-night Korean scenarios. (OK, it was barely midnight, but still. It was Thursday. My bedtime is usually 11:30 on weeknights.) The first was a big, nasty kimchi sunflower splattered all over the top of the escalator. It was virtually inescapable. The Korean people in...
mjchameleon asked: I`d love to go to korea one day, your blog is interesting, especially how you met your partner and walking home late with the advice about not helping people being attacked because you end up being attacked (?),, keep it up,
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FOOD. Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, broccoli macaroni and cheese, carrots, and bread. And, of course, pumpkin pie for dessert. With homemade whipped cream (kind of out of necessity. Whipped cream is like $15 a can here.) I am so thankful that I have two wonderful friends who cooked most of this food, and also that their friend’s girlfriend’s army guy friend came and brought the...
Korea Air Flight Attendant - m4w (Transit Atlanta...
I’d meant to grab your email but was distracted during de-planing in Seoul. My friend needed help with lugagge. You were a cute and professional attendant who I completed a survey for in Prestige class. You also helped me understand how to eat Bimimabip. If you run across this I’d love to get to know you more. Please put my seat number in the subject line
Location: Transit Atlanta...
Watchkoreankaramel:
Is this guy serious? Lol
EW EW EW EW EW EW EW
THIS REMINDS ME OF PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
STOP IT AJUSSI
Y U SO FILTHY
Y U NO DO @ HOME
This is worse than the time the girl was trimming her boyfriend’s eyebrow hairs at On the Border in Sinchon
Anonymous asked: Hi! I have two questions... Would you be willing to share the story of how you met your boyfriend and got together? Also, I think your skin is really nice and am curious about your skin care routine/products! Would you mind sharing that too and how you do your makeup...if you do it all? (It looks like you don't wear any makeup in most of your pictures.) Thank you so much! I really enjoy...
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How I met my boyfriend (by popular request)
Someone send me a nice message today and asked to know how I met my boyfriend (and also, how I take care of my skin. I will respond to that when I go home because I don’t remember the names of all the products I use. But I hope you live in Korea, because it’s all from here!)
Before I met my boyfriend, I met a ton of Korean men who were just okay but I never felt any sparks for. Men...
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South Korea ratifies long-delayed US trade deal;...
It’s good to see that crazy politicians aren’t confined to the United States alone. This overgrown baby of a legislator in Seoul was so upset over the final approval of the US-Korea FTA that he set off a tear gas bomb in the legislative chamber. And then cried and screamed and had a little hissy fit as the police dragged him away.
You know who never does dumb stuff like this? Female...
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Destiny.
I went to Myeongdong last night. I always say I am never going to go there again, but I end up there once every one or two weeks. Fortunately, it wasn’t as disgustingly crowded as it is on weekends since it was only a Tuesday night, and it was possible to actually walk and move around. Most of the stores have Christmas decorations up in the windows, and everything was red and green and...
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"40 Korean Foods We Can't Live Without"
Just found a list of the top 40 must-try Korean foods on CNN.go. It also includes pictures so you know what you’re getting into. It’s 11:30 at night now, but this is making me really, really hungry! And also, I’ve never even heard of the #1 food. I guess I need to do some more eating!
I’m very happy to see my favorite Korean food, 부대찌개, listed at #9. If you haven’t...
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give me coffee!: confessionsofagoodgirl: give me... →
talkinboutstuffseoul:
blondieblondieblondieesq:
confessionsofagoodgirl:
give me coffee!: white people
coffeejusayo:
White people can never not be aware of race. Never ever never. For all the things we have done (no, not personally WE, but “we” as a historically oppressive race) we do not have the liberty to not be aware of race…
Thank you for giving me permission to go off on my own...
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Sometimes, Korean men don't know when to quit.
There was this guy, “Daniel,” who I met on a meeting with my friend. Over a year ago. He didn’t speak more English than “Hello” and I had just moved to Korea and couldn’t speak more Korean than “안녕.” We had absolutely no attraction or chemistry. He smelled like a walking cigarette. Despite all this, I ended up meeting him once or twice after the...
littlegoldseoul asked: you can watch the flower boy videos at dramacrazy. net... at least, that's where i've been watching them. but they are a.d.d.i.c.t.i.n.g, just to warn you. so cute though. and they film in my neighborhood, which is always exciting!^^
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WatchIt’s that time of the week again for some k-indie! Which I only started because some girl who couldn’t read misinterpreted one of my posts as me claiming I thought Big Bang was hipster music and then felt like I had something to prove to the internet. Ugh, the internet. If I didn’t have a desk job, I would quit you. However, I’ve ended up enjoying these posts because I used...
give me coffee!: white people →
talkinboutstuffseoul:
WHAT?!?
How did Coffeejusayo’s post get turned into this??
This was my last Tumblr check for the night and I’m writing this in bed and I’m already half asleep so maybe my reading comprehension is failing me but like, I’m pretty sure the original point was a little deeper than “people tell me I look like Britney Spears and give me free cola when they’re not groping me.”
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So, like, where can I find good streaming episodes of “Flower Boy Ramyeon Shop” with English subtitles? I want to snuggle up in bed and watch it. I have a horrible headache from Korean class; specifically, the two new grammatical constructions our teacher packed into the last nine minutes of class. And the bus ride home was about 100 degrees and while of course none of the Koreans in...
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I hate doing stuff like this.
Finally sent an email to my buddy/head teacher about my ‘problem coworker.’ After our last class when they just screamed the whole time, never listened to me, she never said a word to them to make them be quiet, and she just left in the middle without telling me, leaving me really confused and angry.
I think I was fairly mature. I said that I would like to have more classes with the...
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Like The Tree by Oh Sae Young
As trees get along with trees, so we should live, as boughs holding each other’s hands endure a long cold season.
As trees look upwards to a clear sky, so we should live, as leaves open up their hearts to take in lovely sunlight.
As trees grow amid rain and wind, so we should grow, as their deep roots tenaciously withstand a ferocious storm.
As trees by themselves can discern each season, so we...
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I don't think today could possibly get any better
“You can’t have the class with 302 today because of thier special plan.” via Cool Messenger
and
“I remember you complained about your apartment a few months ago so tomorrow let’s go find you a new apartment in the awesome new luxury office-tel that is almost done being built right next to the school” (paraphrase)
The possibility that I will no longer have to...
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Oh my lord
girlinseoul:
Alpha in Namdaemun is amazing.
One stop shop for everything. Art supplies. Paper. Gift supplies. Toy store. Board games. Science apparatuses. Tea. Hangeul Magnets. Faber castel. Crayola. Recorders. Mops. Christmas. Nail polish. Hardware.
Every. Thing. Ever.
When I read this, I was instantly intrigued. I used to be really into DIY stuff, but stopped when I came to Seoul. I...
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give me coffee!: white people →
coffeejusayo:
White people can never not be aware of race. Never ever never. For all the things we have done (no, not personally WE, but “we” as a historically oppressive race) we do not have the liberty to not be aware of race and racism. You must always. The end. For all the privileges we receive based on…
Good things about being white in Korea: Yeah, you really don’t have to...
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I am so proud of myself! This is the most meaningful reward I have ever received. However, I’m pretty sure I can do a lot better than 7 weekends in a row. I just haven’t been using this (totally useless and pointless) app for a long enough time.
I went to one of my favorite Korean restaurants last night: Zen Hideaway in Hongdae. It’s not actually Korean food, but mostly...
