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A little peice of Korea
2007-11-12 01:10:00
This weekend brought me my first "Canadian-Kore a n" experience. When I moved to Korea last year I had never even tried Korean food here. This weekend, I did.I met up with a friend who had lived in Korea for three years, but that I hadn't seen in about ten. We both brought along a bunch of friends and headed to a Korean restaurant in the west end of Montreal.The restaurant wouldn't seat us because we were too many. hmph. I told my friends "welcome to Korea!" We found an alternative nearby, a restaurant called Hwang. It was pretty good.Since a lot of the people eating had never had Korean before, my friend and I decided what to order and we all just shared everything. We ordered so much we might as well have said "one of everything, please!"We had galbi, bulgogi, deok galbi, dwen jang jigae, pa-jeon, jap-chae, kimchi (a bunch of kinds), pork bone soup, and, of course, rice. I ordered a bottle of soju which came in a little tea pot and they served us warm tea with our food. It was all...

i'm so....
2007-11-02 00:32:00
EXCITED!!!It just hit me that I'm leaving for England in 33 days. Maybe it's the half bottle of wine I had with dinner (actually there's no maybe in it) but I'm all of a sudden looking forward to, and getting excited about leaving.I've also booked a rental car for a few days at the end of November so that I can easily get done any last minute shopping and so that I can drive to Ottawa to see my dad and a couple of friends... this is quickly becoming more real to me... more soon.

Happy Hallowe'en
2007-10-31 19:24:00
It's fright night!!! oooh.... scary.This year I'm having the most different hallowe'en experience that I can remember. Instead of dressing up and going out (or trick-or-treating as I did many moons ago) I'm staying in. I'm the designated candy passer-outer this year.I volunteered for the job actually. I did this a few years ago with a friend in the city and it was fun to see all the kiddies dressed up and begging for a sugar high. So, to make sure that the little 'uns come to the house, I organized myself and decorated outside. It's not the graveyard-haunted house-scary amazing kind of look that I would want, but I think it's a good job, given my short notice... and limited funds.the front of the houseAs you can see there are big orange bags - I filled them all with leaves yesterday... what a workout!!! - and there are faces drawn on all of them. I did most of them but Bilal did a couple and so did Alexia. Here's a close-up:My homage to Kiss! (not really...just came out tha...
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Back and Forth
2007-10-29 21:13:00
This seems to be a theme in my life right now. I'm back in Otterburn - the cats at my (wonderful) friends' house were just too much for my immune system - and I'll be here until I leave in 36 days.Which brings me to the other "back and forth" part of my life - moving to London. I keep thinking how things would be so much easier if I just stayed here and then I think that I would regret not going (possibly for the rest of my life)... What's a girl to do? No one can make the decision for me, but sometimes I wish there were someone to just tell me what to do. Not that I'd likely listen to them if there was!So here is a pros and cons list to staying and leaving.Pros to staying:I could set myself up in a nice apartment for WAY less.I would be close to my friends and family.Cons to staying:I would always wonder "what if..."Finding a job in my field is more difficult here.I could get "comfortable" and forget about my dreams of seeing the world.Pros to leaving:I'd get to live in one o...
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new digs... again.
2007-10-24 01:43:00
I've moved into the city. There are a number of reasons for this, but I won't list them. There is something sad about leaving Otterburn, but it's also a good thing for me. I'm stuck here until the 4th of December, so I might as well make some money in that time, right?Today I got a job at a market research firm where I will be calling people and asking them questions. Fun. I had some friends way back who did this while they were going to school. I'm just doing it to be able to survive for the next six weeks without spending any of the money currently in my bank account. Hopefully I can stand it enough... if not, maybe I'll head back to the country...I found a great deal at redtag.ca for my flight to London. $480 one way on British Airways... the same flight is listed at just over $1000 on their site, so I'm looking at it like a 50% off sale! Plus BA lets you bring more luggage than the (only) cheaper flight that I found. Anyway, I've got two days until I start my new job, ho...

a girl and a bike
2007-10-17 23:28:00
The other day, feeling like I haven't been exercising enough of late, decided to go for a bike ride/photo expedition out in the country. I opened google earth to map out where I wanted to go, packed some snacks, and took off into the glorious sunshine.My routeMy goal was to get to Chambly. It's a couple of town over and up the river from here. I approximated the ride to be about 30 KM's. I had all afternoon, so I didn't really care how long it took me.Mont St. Bruno A barnIt was incredible to be out in the middle of nowhere with no other people in sight (especially since I must have looked a little goofy all decked up in my winter jacket with a camera hanging around my neck!). The sun was shining; there were big puffy white clouds in the sky; the trees were all changing into their autumn glory; the air was crisp, but not cold, it was a perfect day really.Trees in their fall coloursDown by the riverI stopped a few times to take pictures. I biked through a field to get to a copse ...
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it's about time
2007-10-06 16:39:00
I haven't been posting. I'm sorry. I guess I needed a break, or maybe I just thought there was nothing terribly interesting to write about. Here's what I've been up to for the last month...I landed in Montreal, sans luggage, on September 2nd. My luggage spent the night in Chicago and joined me at Trisha's apartment on the third. I spent the next week at her place in a daze of delicious and naughty food, and sleepless nights. I was waking at 3 or 4 AM every morning no matter what time I went to bed.It's further than it looks!A week after getting back I "moved" out to Otterburn Park, my childhood town, to stay with Alexia and Bilal at Alexia's mom's house. It's been nice playing "auntie Liz" to Bilal the cutest six-year-old I know."Monkey B"We walk to school in the morning and home in the afternoon. We play and watch movies. We argue and we hug and make up. I missed him a lot while I was in Korea and actually wrote to him more than anyone else! I don't want him to forget me....
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a month is too long...
2007-10-02 16:27:00
So sorry it's been so long since my last post... I guess I just haven't felt like there has been anything interesting to put here. I've been back in the Mont real region for a month now and I will hopefully be getting out of here in the next month! Destination: England.I'm working on getting my visa right now and then I just have to wait. They've told me the turn around is about 10 days... not sure if that's working days or not, but it probably is.So that's the plan.Other than that, I've been playing house with Alexia out in Otterburn Park, about an hour outside of Montreal. It's nice sometimes, but I miss the city and all the conveniences that come with it. I feel very isolated out here.Being home is strange. It isn't really "home" anymore. It just a place that I know really well, and I'm ready to experience new things, not the same old, same old. Keep your fingers crossed for me and I promise lots of exciting tales from the UK and Europe...I promise to write again soon....
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Coming up...
2007-09-08 21:57:00
Well, it's been about a week since I posted, but only because I didn't have any internet access until today. I have SO much to write about, but very little time at the moment. So, I hope this little note will suffice for now. I still have to finish writing about Thailand - the last leg of our trip in Bangkok and I also have to write about my amazing and wonderful birthday in Korea and then I have to write about my 28 hour trip home to Canada...So, stay tuned, I think I will have more time in the next week to write often as I will be staying with a friend about an hour outside of Montreal (where there is nothing else to do but blog!!!)If anyone out there knows of a room I can rent (possibly short-term) please let me know!
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the last
2007-09-01 14:06:00
I did it. 375 days ago I landed at Seoul Incheon International Airport and tomorrow I will be leaving from it. I have mixed feelings. I know I wrote a pretty nasty post a couple of days ago about my experience here, but I was angry. That anger has subsided since my severance pay has been transferred to my Canadian bank account, and the pension office has my payment in the works.It?s not all about the money though. In the last few days I?ve realized a lot of things about a lot of the people that I?ve known here ? most of them Korean. The principal and vice-principal, along with the head teachers, took me out for a really nice lunch on my last day. At the end of the school day I had to say a few words to the teachers in the office and then they presented me with two wonderful gifts ? a pair of traditional Korean dancing shoes and a hand-made Korean fan. They are both beautiful and expensive, in fact, some of the teachers were shocked by how expensive they were and commented that they ...
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Thailand - The Land of Smiles
2007-08-30 09:22:00
Ko TaoAfter five glorious days in Ko Samui, we left our little home and headed for the ferry to Ko Tao. It is the smallest of the three islands in the Gulf of Thailand .uh, ko tao... on the map...It is a mere 21 KM squared (sorry can't find the little sign...) and is about 70 KM off the mainland, but could be in the middle of the ocean for how "undeveloped" it is. Koh Tao means Turtle Island, so named for all the turtles that used to breed there. It became famous in 1899 when King Rama V visited and engraved his monogram on a rock at Jor Por Ror Bay near Sairee beach.King Rama V rock.From 1944 to 1947 the island was used as a political prison. The prisoners were all pardoned and the island was abandoned. A few years later a couple of brothers settled their families on the island and became the first real residents.Ko Tao has only become a tourist destination in the last 10-15 years, which makes it much less developed than its neighbours, Ko Phangan and Ko Samui. Most people go to Ta...
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a break from the tales of thailand
2007-08-29 11:21:00
I'm sorry, dear reader, but I must take a break from Thailand and come back to reality here in Korea for a moment. I apologize in advance for the negative tone this post is bound to assume, but this blog has been so much about my life in Korea, and that hasn't ended yet.Another payday came and went with no transfer into my account. It was four days late again. The reason I was given was that there was extra paperwork to be done since it was my last pay. This led me to believe that the extra paperwork was due to my severance - makes sense, doesn't it? Well, I have now been informed that I will only be getting my severance in late September or early October, which makes it pretty useless as it's meant to help me get by until I find another job.I can't wait to say good riddance to all of the bullshit that the Korean education system has dealt me, but I suppose that will have to wait yet another month. That is, of course, if I get the money. They didn't even ask me for my account ...
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Thailand - The Land of Smiles
2007-08-27 12:29:00
Elephants and a WaterfallOur third day on Koh Samui we took a half day trip to go visit Namuang Waterfall (the second biggest on the island) and go for an elephant trek in the jungle.We had organized the trip through a local travel agent and so, we were picked up at our hotel at around 9:30 AM. It took about half an hour to drive to the elephant trekking. There was a baby elephant - Tongkul - right at the entrance - he's so cute! We proceeded to the elephant station, which is an elevated platform where you climb onto the elephant.The first thing that surprised me was that I actually had to step on it's back to get into the seat. Now, I should have expected that, I mean, how else do you get on an elephant? But it immediately made me ask the question I hadn't thought of before - is this humane? I still don't have an answer.So we sat in our seat on top of this massive 45 year-old male elephant named Sankom, and his trainer sat on his shoulders. We were off. I hope that doesn't sou...
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Thailand - The Land of Smiles
2007-08-24 08:57:00
Koh Samui - Lamai BeachWe left Bangkok early in the morning. It was raining. The flight is an hour from Bangkok to Surat Thani, which is in the middle of the country. We were headed to Koh Samui, which is Thailand 's second largest island.I hope this picture is self explanatory!Bye bye Bangkok!After arriving in Surat Thani we had to take a bus from the airport to the ferry - this took about an hour and a half (it was included in our ferry ticket). We boarded the ferry, which another hour and a half to get to the island. We had decided on the airplane that we'd go to Lamai Beach on Samui. It is the second largest beach on the island - the first is Chaweng. We didn't go to the biggest one because Lamai was described as being quieter and more relaxing but still a really nice beach.A songathaew full of locals... Me on the first of many songtaew rides.When we got off the ferry we caught a songathaew (pr songtaw) to Lamai. We weren't sure where to get off so we asked the driver to tell...
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Thailand - The Land of Smiles
2007-08-23 11:27:00
The Floating Market, Tiger Temple, and Bridge over the River KwaiWe had both read and heard about the The Tiger Temple (real name Wat Pa Luangta Bua Yannasampannoin) Kanchanaburi (about two hours out of Bangkok) and it was something that we both really wanted to do. In fact, if there was one thing I wanted to do in Thailand , (other than sit on a beach) it was to visit this incredible animal sanctuary.We bought a day trip package from a travel agent near Khao San Road for 600 baht each. A pretty good deal considering the rip-off artist the night before tried to sell the same thing to us for 1700! The trip was going to take us to the floating market, the bridge over the River Kwai (known as the Death Bridge), and the Tiger Temple.We got picked up from our hotel at around 8:30 and boarded a mini bus with eight other tourists. Some of the them were on half day tours to the floating market only, but there were 60 of us in all, (ten mini vans) with only one tour guide.After a two hour dri...
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Thailand - The Land of Smiles
2007-08-22 05:14:00
The Grand Palace and Wat Po - Bangkok , part twoAfter fruitlessly seeking out the TAT we decided that the afternoon would be well spent checking out some cultural/touristy things in Bangkok. The major attraction being, of course, the Grand Palace - where the King and Queen live.So we headed there in early afternoon - on foot - it's about a 20 minute walk from Khao San Road.Inside the entrance at the Grand Palace - the Upper Terrace in the backgroundThe Grand Palace was built in 1782 by King Rama I. It houses the throne halls, government offices and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha (closed for renovations while we were there).One of the main attractions is the Upper Terrace where four monuments are found; a reliquary in the shape of a golden chedi; the mondop - a repository for Buddhist sacred scriptures; a miniature model of Angkor Wat (in Cambodia); and the Royal Pantheon where statues of former Kings are enshrined.The reliquary on the Upper TerraceAngkor Wat modelA statue guarding...
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Thailand - The Land of Smiles
2007-08-21 06:54:00
Bangkok - part oneI flew out of Seoul, Incheon International Airport on Sunday August 5th. I spent the previous day wandering around Seoul and bought my new camera at the electronics market. It's a Canon EOS 20D - and i love it. It was really great to hold a "real" camera in my hands again. I shot around 2000 photos in two weeks with it! And there are thousands more to come, I'm sure.Anyway, I flew with Thai Air - which was lovely. I lucked out on my flight there when the two people sitting next to me changed seats after take-off to be closer to the TV - so I had three seats to myself to lie down and lounge on! It was the next best thing to being in business or first class! The food was really good, the service was decent, (the only thing I would say wasn't prefect actually) the seats were comfortable, and i got to use the business class bathroom since i was so close to the front of the plane - the furthest forward I've ever been actually (not on the wing like usual).My lunch on...
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tigers and elephants and thais, oh my!
2007-08-20 12:19:00
i'm back! this is going to be a quick post as i'm knackered from traveling overnight and i'm still not thinking straight. so as a preview of things to come:August 5th i arrived in Bangkok and met R at the airport. we toured around the sights on the 6th - the grand palace, the reclining buddha, and other places in the city.on the 7th - we took a tour to the floating market and the tiger temple, and made a quick stop at the bridge over the river kwai.the 8th brought us back to the airport to fly (domestic) to surat thani about halfway down the country - a long bus ride and then a ferry brought us to our "home" on the islands - Koh Samui. we experienced local thai culture, a touristy elephant ride, swimming under waterfalls, and lots of beach time.the 13th (my "birthday" in thailand) we boarded a high speed catamaran for the island of Koh Tao - otherwise known as paradise.on the 16th it was back to samui for the night and a flight to bangkok on the 17th (didn't want to leave...)out...
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it's actually august
2007-08-02 13:38:00
I can't believe how quickly time goes by. I know I?ve said this before on this blog... but everything is just happening so fast and it's making me think too much. I?m leaving for Thailand on Saturday. First stop is Seoul for the day - where I will finally buy my digital SLR!!! My flight leaves from Incheon international airport on Sunday at 9 AM. So this might be the last post for a while, though I haven't been posting much of late anyway, and for that, I am sorry.It?s amazing that I?ve made it. I have a total of eight teaching days left. Tomorrow is the last day of summer camp and then I have seven days when I return from Thailand. If you had asked me in November if I?d still be here in August the answer would have been NO WAY! But here I am, and much better/happier for it too.I?m really happy that I stayed. I know that I would have regretted leaving and I don?t like to have regrets. Every year around the time of my birthday I inevitably think back on my life and try to come to ...
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the gimhae garbage police
2007-07-27 10:57:00
garbage disposal in korea is a very specific kind of thing. at home we have recycling and regular garbage - if you don't recycle it isn't "the end of the world" (but you should!!!) but we also have LOTS of space - something that korea is lacking. so, they have very specific rules about the way you dispose of your waste.they don't have recycling bins like we do back home. you just kind of put everything out and different trucks come by and pick up things according to what's in the bag. you're supposed to use a special bag for "real" garbage, but the recycling can just go out any which way (and it very often does).the special bags are blue and have "gimhae for you" written on the side, you can buy them at just about any grocery store for about fifty cents each. at home i used to buy ten bags for a dollar and they were five times the size of these bags... but that's the way it works here, so i have been obliging since i arrived. usually i will use a grocery bag and then put that ...
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the dragonfly days of summer
2007-07-25 09:36:00
that's right, dragonfly, not dog. don't think i've mentioned it, but the dragonflies are out in full force. it's pretty incredible to see hundreds of them just floating through the air above you. haven't taken a picture yet because i haven't had my camera with me and they probably wouldn't shoot that well, being as small as they are, but i'll see what i can do.it's been hotter than hell of late... hovering around 30 C, plus humidity, which brings it to something like 50 C (okay, might be exaggerating a little) which is kind of nice on some level, but i am praising the fact that i have air conditioning in my apartment. i don't know what i'd do without it sometimes. it's one of those really nifty ones that has a remote and all kinds of controls. i'm not sure what most of them are, (the remote is in korean) but as long as it keeps spitting out cold air, i'm ok.the coolest part is that i can adjust the temperature. if i want to leave it on when i sleep i can leave it on wa...
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at long last...
2007-07-23 08:36:00
this weekend was another one for getting things done... things that i haven't done before. on saturday a bunch of us headed to Beomeo-sa (pr. bomo - sa is temple in korean). it is one of the largest buddhist temples in korea and i've been trying to get there since october. it was on my "to-do" list before leaving, and as with many things you always think there is so much time, but there really isn't - with only 6 weeks left til i'm home (and two of those in thailand) i'm really running low on that particular commodity.so, we left the g-spot at around 11 am. we stopped for a korean lunch when we got into busan and then headed up the mountain. we could have taken a bus, but we all decided that we could make the 2.6 KM walk up... it wasn't too hard, some of us were huffing and puffing more than others, but we all made it up.the weather was pretty crappy but it was my last chance (as well as d and a, who will be leaving (?) at the end of the week) to see it, so we went anyway. the...
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the beginning of the end
2007-07-18 11:07:00
this is the last week of the spring/summer semester for middle schools across korea. lucky me. and i guess lucky kids too, though most of them will spend their summer vacation studying. as we all know, i'll be going to thailand (in less than three weeks now - 18 days if you wanna get right down to it).monday was my first last day of class. my after school class finally finished. i've been teaching an extra two hours every monday for the last two and half months. it was my favourite class of all though, and was sad to see it end. i had three girls that showed up every week without fail. the rest of the (20 odd) students showed up a maximum of four times each. so i ordered pizza for the girls and got them little prezzies. they got me a necklace and a jewelry box... so sweet. they all have my email and i hope they'll use it, especially Siria, she is an amazing bright teenager.Grace, me, Siria, and Mia - my after school girls.today was my second last day of the semester (tomorrow wil...
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g & t, fire, and newness...
2007-07-16 11:45:00
another weekend has passed. i've only got about four left in korea, so making the most of them is pretty important. on friday i went to mr. parks (of a hobo-christmas fame) to hang out with brandy and a bunch of other waegooks... at around 1 am kim and i decided to go shopping at the "trial mart" next door for some shirts. this is one that we both bought:HAHAAHAHAAHA!!!! you thought it said "poopie", didn't you!?!? i love korean shirts!on saturday i went out for a nice dinner with kim and scott (who is new in town and knows kim from back home), then we went to the "cockstail" bar near kim's house. i'd never been before, though i have been to the one near my house... this one was much nicer.it was nice to go out somewhere that you could drink something other than beer. (korean beer doesn't sit well with me, and lots of bars don't have mixed drinks.) it was a nice place too - plush and comfy chairs replaced little stools, dim atmospheric lighting, and the best part, a bar show. ...
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the amazing bacteria killing man
2007-07-11 10:27:00
a couple of weeks ago as i was walking home i saw a man. no, that's not the interesting part... he was carrying what looked like a leaf blower that was spewing smoke and fumes into the street. he was walking up and down all the streets with this 'smoke blower'. i thought it odd, but hey, this IS korea, and i've encountered stranger things, though i'm at a loss to think of any at the moment.the 'smoke blower' made an awful lot of noise as well, so a couple of days later when i heard it outside my house i leaned out the window to take some photos of him:from a little far awayand closer up...what is that thing? if you look closely you can see the smoke coming out the front of it. well, being the curious cat that i am, i had to find out, so i went to the venerable source that is my co-teacher. she said he was spraying to kill the bacteria in the air. "bacteria?" i asked her. "there is bacteria in the air at this time of year," she said... she couldn't tell me more than that... i...
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waegooks vs hangooks
2007-07-08 13:50:00
i did something this weekend that i can pretty much say i've never done before. i played soccer - or as many of my friends would call it - football. i played in high school, during gym class, but have never (even imagined) playing it for fun!saturday night a bunch of foreigners were going to play against the gimhae men's league team. i was going to go and watch, but my wonderful friend, kim, convinced me to play. she was playing, she assured me, and there would be other girls too. so i agreed, thinking it would be a fun and different way to get some exercise. i'm hooked.the pitch. we rented it for three hours. 7-10 PM.before we started playing one of the guys came up to me and said "do you even know how to play?" my reply was "kick the ball into the other teams goal and don't touch the ball with your hands." i'm still not familiar with the intricate rules of the game (if there are any) but i think i could be good at it with some practice.we also made some new friends - from bus...

summer on the mountain
2007-07-07 02:54:00
some of you might recall that i started hiking mount sineo in mid-winter. there were no leaves on the trees. the streams were but a trickle of half frozen water. the air was cool. i really enjoyed it and went up about 5 times in a couple of months.on thursday i had the afternoon off (thanks to exams) and figured what better way to spend the afternoon? it was actually sunny out for the first time in a while and thought i could get a little colour on me before the trip to thailand. i also wanted to check out those 'trickles' during the rainy season.it was a whole different world.i took pictures to compare and contrast the difference...before:i took this because i KNEW it would be a lake in summer... there's been some kind of 'work' done on the area so it looks a little different, but i swear it's the same spot.after:don't know where that concrete came from... but look at all that water!!!before:it's not exactly the same shot, the direction is a little off, but it's the same p...
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cheater, cheater
2007-07-03 12:00:00
today i invigilated a math exam because the teacher who was supposed to do it had to take a kid to the hospital. i was the only other teacher with "nothing to do" so they asked me. i didn't think it was a good idea until they told me there would be a korean teacher in the room with me. all i had to do was stand at the back of class, watch, and listen. no problem.while i didn't see anyone cheating i still know that they do it... when i give quizzes - once a month to the top classes as a way of determining THE top class of the month - the kids try their best to help each other out. i always tell them before the quiz that if they cheat - talking to others, or looking at anyone else's paper - that i will take it away and count it as zero points.they always try to argue (or whine) their way out of it when i catch them, but in every class there is always at least one. it's not like my quizzes are the collegiate scholastic ability test or anything... all they get is some candy, a canad...
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HAPPY CANADA DAY! i realize this is a day late... ...
2007-07-02 11:24:00
HAPPY CANADA DAY!i realize this is a day late... but i was in no state to be posting yesterday. i was recovering from (korean) canada day! turns out that canada day celebrations can be just as much fun when you're outside of the country.of course, i've been in quebec for the last twenty or so, so i guess i wasn't really "in" canada! haha.on saturday kim, brandy and i headed into busan to go to starface, where they were holding their third annual canada day party. we went out for "western" food at outback steakhouse and headed to the party. we paid our 15,000W (~17$) for our all-you-can-drink cups and started the party.i was drinking rye and ginger all night - which was awesome because the last time i saw ginger ale was in japan, and before that was last summer when i was in canada! i didn't think that it existed in korea, but i have photographic evidence now. the bartender w/couldn't tell me where it came from, so i'll have to wait another 2 months for some more... :(canada dr...
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update
2007-06-28 11:28:00
sorry it's been almost a week since my last post. think i'm going to lose all my readers if i keep this up for much longer. just haven't been in a posting mood... sorry.last weekend was spent with friends - friday was the wine and cheese night with a bunch of lady friends... only got in after 3am... it was good times.saturday a bunch of gimhaens headed out to changwon - the next city over - to celebrate a couple of birthdays - kimbirdy's 25th and lois' 60th. again, good times were had by all.the last couple of days have been particularly hot and muggy - which makes me lethargic, thus the non-posting all week... guess i've just been lazy about it. i keep thinking of things that i want to post about, but by the time i get home from school/the gym/meetings at the office of education/after school classes/banking...etc... i just don't feel like it.some good news this week - my flight home will be paid for by the office of education on a "government travel request" - meaning i don...
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