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Archive for April, 2007
Atten-hut!
30, Apr 2007This week, instead of 450 middle school students at English Village, we have 450 soldiers from all branches of the Korean military from a variety of ranks. I had my first day with them today and really enjoyed them. Many of our classes will be only slightly modified versions of those we teach our regular [...]
- In: EnglishVillage| Jessica| Korea
On the mountain
30, Apr 2007Yesterday, we went on a field trip with Adam’s photography class to Dobongsan Mountain. It’s just south of Uijongbu (not that that means anything to you– I just like saying Uijongbu), about 55 km/36 miles southeast of where we are in Paju. Dobongsan is an interesting and beautiful place. It’s the Korean Aspen [...]
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29, Apr 2007Sleeping in Public
Koreans are notorious for overworking. Students will commonly go to school to language academies to math academies to private lessons from 7 or 8 a.m. until 10 or 11 p.m. six days a week. Businessmen routinely work late and then have “meetings” at the local bar with their bosses and co-workers until midnight [...]
- In: Jessica| Korea| KoreanKwerks
Camping in the backyard
29, Apr 2007We went camping last night. We planned it last minute with our friend Nolan, and we didn’t feel like going far, so we did the equivalent of camping in our backyard. The hill above English Village was the perfect place to pitch our tents.
All night, we sat around the campfire singing songs, eating hot dogs [...]
- In: EnglishVillage| Friends| Jessica| Korea
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23, Apr 2007Personification of Food
Korean restaurants have the curious habit of advertising their food with little personified pictures. You’ll see pigs in chef hats, a happy chicken holding a platter of… well… chicken, smiling fish flipping a pan, and countless inanimate objects with smiling faces and thumbs-up telling you they’re cute enough to eat.
This chicken is [...]
- In: Jessica| Korea| KoreanKwerks
Insadong Arcade
23, Apr 2007Last night, Adam and I watched a really nice film, “Pieces of April” while I cut apart the Seoul Art Guide and made a Spring collage for our bedroom door.
This afternoon, we met Annie and Sung Sook in Insadong. We enjoyed a lunch of bibimbap and pajan pancakes, then we walked to a gallery [...]
Inner Beauty in Korean Eyes
20, Apr 2007http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aij_0fpEDgg
Adam and I had an interesting cultural experience on Wednesday night. We joined the weekly movie night on campus and saw the hit Korean movie, “200 Pound Beauty”. This was one the biggest movies in Korea last year. A movie so popular is likely to lend insight into the cultural mindset, right?
Well, what “200 Pound [...]
Spring has sprung…
19, Apr 2007Spring has sprung! Spring has sprung!
Victoria Town still has garlands hung.
- In: EnglishVillage| Jessica| PhotoHaiku
NPR at EV
19, Apr 2007I was teaching Art with a Korean co-teacher named Hye Yoon. We had just gotten the kids started on making their surrealist collages of animals when a young American guy with a big furry boom microphone peeked into our classroom. He was accompanied by a woman from City Hall (our admin building), so I let him [...]
- In: EnglishVillage| Jessica| Korea| Travel
The weight of technology
15, Apr 2007http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q
I recently came across this incredible video on one of my favorite blogs, “Shlog” written by Nashville musician Shaun Groves, and I got involved in a mini debate in his comments section.
I have experienced this shift firsthand: Online, I found Adam, we found and later sold our cars, we found our house, our travel companions, [...]
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