March 2012
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Fashionable American Boyz
I had two dates this week. With foreign guys. By foreign, I mean from America. (Isn’t it funny how even though I’m American I think of other Americans, Canadians, etc. as foreign now?) I haven’t been out with a foreign guy, honestly, since last September. There was a cute hipster guy at orientation who somehow decided he was interested in me, despite the fact that the weather at...
Anonymous asked: Would you ever want to live and teach anywhere else in the world? (Outside the US?)
Anonymous asked: Do you plan to eventually become fluent in Korean?
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Anonymous asked: How do you usually dress for work in a Korean school?
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"I suggest you..."
That is the target language of one of my grades’ lessons this week. After we go through the boring examples in the book, I ask them some more interesting questions. I give them a theoretical problem I have, and they answer it. Here are my favorite answers:
I don’t have a boyfriend, but I really want a boyfriend!
I suggest you….
get plastic surgery (this is always the first...
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The Little Manoffin that Could
On Saturday evening I purchased a Manoffin muffin at Sinsa station while waiting for my late friend.
I intended to eat it while we had some drinks at a bar because I’m a cheapo but forgot about it because we ordered a set that came with nachos and dried squid and I ate the whole nacho plate by myself and also most of the squid. So I just put the muffin in my purse.
I completely forgot...
A Girl in Seoul: Where can I see Titanic 3D in... →
partyintherok:
I don’t see it listed on the Lotte Cinema, CGV, or Megabox websites. But I saw posters for it in Coex, and I remember someone else here wrote about seeing it. If you know, please message me! Thank you! (PS- Hunger Games comes out April 5th! Gotta see that, too!)
Edit: Megabox…
Thanks! I will check for it at Wangsimni again, but I didn’t see it. I still don’t...
Where can I see Titanic 3D in Seoul?
I don’t see it listed on the Lotte Cinema, CGV, or Megabox websites. But I saw posters for it in Coex, and I remember someone else here wrote about seeing it. If you know, please message me! Thank you! (PS- Hunger Games comes out April 5th! Gotta see that, too!)
Edit: Megabox says it’s coming April 5, too. I know someone said they saw it on Tumblr! Where is it out now?
Anonymous asked: Do you ever feel particularly out of place or awkward in Korea with everyone being so into fashion and looking perfect?
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Any American Caucasian girls want sexy Korean...
Hello there, I am my in Korea yet, Planning to go viait maybe stay in Korea fr a year or two. I’m looking for a cute korean or white girl. Korean girls I can teach you English, and White girls I can teach you Korean (; Looking for a email pen pal, or Chatting buddy until I get there I’m a young tall and handsome 21 years old, 5’11” California born and raised Ican speak...
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Gentile Korean Am. For Jewish Princess - 28...
I’m a busy professional Korean-American guy, and from time to time I come to the candy shop that is Craigslist looking for dinner partners, random hookups, and the rare friend (or FWB). This time I’m in the mood for a jappy, hot, jewish girl. Or a Korean girl who can act the part. I grew up in NYC so I’ve come to love girls of the Hebrew persuasion. Friends consider me smart,...
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Korean Trash Bag Revolution!
My local Lotte Super has recently begun giving out new shopping bags that double as trash bags. Residents of my area no longer have to ask and pay (quite a bit of money) for separate trash bags. I wonder if any other areas are doing this? Or maybe everyone else in Seoul has been doing this forever, and this concept only just came to my ‘gu.’ I still have to buy the food trash bags,...
Party in the R.O.K.: Normally at work I would have... →
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partyintherok:
Normally at work I would have finished all my lesson plans for next week by now (Wednesday lunchtime; not too shabby) but I haven’t even started thinking about them. Because I cannot stop reading the Hunger Games. O.M.G. These books are really, really good. They are legit. Normally when people…
That’s it. I guess I should start reading these books. I’m tired...
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Normally at work I would have finished all my lesson plans for next week by now (Wednesday lunchtime; not too shabby) but I haven’t even started thinking about them. Because I cannot stop reading the Hunger Games. O.M.G. These books are really, really good. They are legit. Normally when people start raving about something and it ends up all over my Facebook and the blogs I read, my natural...
My Korean Adventure: Gmarket Help →
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So, I’ve never ordered anything off of Gmarket, but I’m sick and tired of paying for cable without having a TV, lol.
I’m looking to spend less than 350k won if possible on the TV, and 50-60k on a dvd player (which I might just get off of craigslist). I want to be able to watch movies through a…
Unless they’ve changed a few things since I was there in...
»watching Walking Dead
»reading Hunger Games
»realizing that people being forced to kill each other excites me way more than it ought to
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Things I learned today from my student who is...
Justin Bieber was in an episode of CSI and he played a terrorist
There are many pictures of Justin Bieber kissing Selena Gomez on Naver
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are probably ‘sleeping together’ which is ‘depressing’
Justin Bieber had a scandal with Kim Kardashian’s younger sister
This girl is awesome. She’s 15 and never left Korea, but her English is...
Anonymous asked: do you know how rude it is for your country to force Korea to make it a policy to play more american media? Lol... how about you guys play Kdrama half the time on Fox or NBC. Your presence in Korea is offensive. nothing personal, im sure you're a sweeet girl. at least you balance out the ratio of disgusting marines lol, you should promote Korean stuff over American stuff to your students,...
Anonymous asked: Arent you in korea to teach english? tell me, how many high school students typically learn english?stop language colonizing Korea. what are your qualifications to teach english as a secondary language anyway? look at what youre feeding into korea, Korea is not originally Christian, we are buddhist and shamanist like folk shinto and there's no reason we should mass learn english. you're...
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partyintherok:
I went to two bookstores and neither of them had the book I wanted. They had the second and third installments, but not the first. I guess it’s sold out because the movie just came out and everyone decided to check it out since all their friends keep telling them how awesome it is. Just like me. I…
Get the kindle app on your phone or...
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God made mud. God got lonesome. So God said to some of the mud, “Sit up!” “See all I’ve made,” said God, “the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars.” And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done. Nice going, God. Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly couldn’t have. I feel very unimportant compared...
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ambhyuk:
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A day of high school students in Korea.
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Accurate according to every Korean friend I have ever known.
I love this video and my students do as well. I think they were the ones who showed it to me, when we were doing an activity about what their daily schedules were like a long time ago. They definitely said...
Anonymous asked: anything new with the round eye awkward couple that just moved in?
I went to two bookstores and neither of them had the book I wanted. They had the second and third installments, but not the first. I guess it’s sold out because the movie just came out and everyone decided to check it out since all their friends keep telling them how awesome it is. Just like me. I think I’ll try at one more store this week, and then give up. Reading is lame, anyway!...
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Call me crazy, but I really love Mondays!
I am having a lovely Monday! I was running around a little bit like a chicken with its head cut off this morning because the office staff didn’t copy the worksheets I needed (which I had requested in advance last Wednesday!) and I had to run into the office between classes to print off more worksheets, and then the printer would always jam, but now everything is calm. And someone just put a...
crystalsynth asked: Obviously because you are enjoying Korean culture/food and sharing it with the rest of the world you are ruining Korea. Please leave immediately! Stop eating kimchi and bibimbap too, that is only for sacred Korean stomachs.
Anonymous asked: you're unconsciously poisoning Korea, please just enjoy the country and watch the footprints you leave behind. No more english teachers in Korea.
Anonymous asked: please stop colonizing Korea with your english and presence. please stop unconsciously perpetuating U.S. military presence and imperialism, keeping Korea divided for your selfish needs, pushing your trade laws and pushing american lifestyle and media into Korean youth. We are Korean, not white not American. thank you.
Watchambhyuk:
wtfsofunny:
A day of high school students in Korea.
Click for more funny posts=))
Accurate according to every Korean friend I have ever known.
I love this video and my students do as well. I think they were the ones who showed it to me, when we were doing an activity about what their daily schedules were like a long time ago. They definitely said they felt their lives were like...
Party in the R.O.K.: As you can see from the... →
morningcalmblog:
partyintherok:
morningcalmblog:
partyintherok:
Seriously, everyone and their mother was on the guest list. Including a ton of gross foreigners. I don’t care what country you are from, you do not go to a nice club wearing jeans and a hooded sweatshirt and filthy sneakers/tennis shoes. That stuff does not fly in America, and it certainly does not fly in Seoul. A club in...
Party in the R.O.K.: As you can see from the... →
morningcalmblog:
partyintherok:
Seriously, everyone and their mother was on the guest list. Including a ton of gross foreigners. I don’t care what country you are from, you do not go to a nice club wearing jeans and a hooded sweatshirt and filthy sneakers/tennis shoes. That stuff does not fly in America, and it certainly does not fly in Seoul. A club in Hongdae? Hmmm. Maybe. A club in...
Watchjennaonline:
The enlightening, aforementioned video I always see in the subway that instructs people on the correct and orderly way to walk. A big “DUH” in every other country I’ve visited, but here? Totally necessary.
Note: The foreigner with the mullet at the end of the video.
HAHAHA. Korean public places have so many rules and instructions for doing simple things. Like this video, on how...
As you can see from the picture I just uploaded, last night was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, all my fake tattoos kept rubbing off! Daiso quality, ugh. I had to wash two off completely, and just drew part of the last one in with a black marker. My friend’s fake tattoos turned out fine, though, and she even got complimented on them by a Korean woman in the bathroom at the club. I thought it...
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Party in the R.O.K.: I basically know nothing... →
hothotvolcano:
partyintherok:
I basically know nothing about what’s cool in America (is Justin Bieber still cool?!) so it’s up to my students to teach me. They tell me about American movies they just saw in the theater, or new American TV shows, and I’m like “Nope, no idea what that is. Never heard of it before.” I’ve felt…
Within a couple days, two blogs I follow in Korea mention watching...
Just ate the whole nacho plate by myself ㅠㅠ
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