There’s a little convenience store across the road from my school, and I go there on the way home from work if I need some small essential like milk or juice or kimchi. The woman who works there was in awe of me at first, going on and on about my beautiful face and beautiful [...]
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I suppose I should take advantage of being in a country “on the brink of nuclear war” and write a thought-provoking, serious journalism-y kind of article. I could tell you about how people are packing up all their possessions and booking flights out of the country. I could tell you about emergency drills being done [...]
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While we’re on the subject of Korean foods, I must take the opportunity to introduce you to the oddity that is tteok. The best translation they can come up with for this… this thing, is “rice cake”, which initially made me imagine those crispy, tasteless crackerbreads you eat when you’re on the Weightwatchers diet and [...]
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I got told, at the last minute as usual, that my class before lunch on Friday would finish early. Actually, I got told while I was in the middle of teaching the class, but anyway. I’m used to such happenings by now. The reason for this was so that lunch could be taken earlier, and [...]
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When I say that I greatly prefer written communication to any other form (often including seeing people face-to-face!), it’s not just something that I’ve recently decided and declared. My love of forming relationships through writing has been present for as long as I can remember. I remember the first time I heard about the concept [...]
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This week, we were given the task of teaching the children about the solar system. It was good fun, as children seem to be fascinated by space and planets and suchlike, so they were all listening and contributing to the lesson, and quite eager to learn what the planets are called in English. So anyway, I’m [...]
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You Say Goodbye, I Say… Historical Snapshots It Just Makes Me Happy
