One of my friends recently started a 30-day writing challenge, and since I had nothing to blog about today, I thought I’d have a go at topic number one. I may or may not complete the challenge, but I almost certainly will not do it in 30 consecutive days! It can be a source of [...]
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I still don’t quite know what it is about the Koreans and staring at foreigners. It doesn’t happen quite as much in the big cities, but here in my little corner of a relatively small city, I get stared at on a daily basis. I know you could try to excuse this with “Aw, they [...]
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Yep, that’s right, I call it “Fall” now. Another little part of my linguistic identity drifting forlornly to the ground amongst the leaves, but colour still has a ‘u’, for now. But whatever you want (or are required) to call it, the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is finally here, and I could not [...]
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When you teach little children all day, it’s easy to forget how young they really are. It can be kind of a shock when you see your students out with their parents and realise that they’re not much more than babies, in spite of how hard you see them being pushed in school. What’s even [...]
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As so often happens, the event I wasn’t happy about attending actually ended up being a lot of fun. I decided that since I’d made the choice to hold my tongue and just fit in with the way things are done here, then I had to bring the right attitude along with me and not [...]
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For the most part, I have no real difficulties in adapting to foreign cultures. I’m an easy-going person, despite what you may assume from my occasional hot-headed rants on my blog. I go along with what other people want to do, I rarely insist on getting my own way (e.g. with restaurant choices, movie options, [...]
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The cooking lady sat down at the lunch table on Tuesday looking very pleased with herself. I have come to recognise this look. It happens when she is about to tell us what she’s in the process of preparing for the next day’s meal – normally, we don’t know what we’re getting until we sit [...]
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This rather angry post was written at about 6am. The anger had dissipated somewhat by the time I arrived at work (as it is one of those glorious early autumn days with clear, cornflower-blue skies and sunshine and cool breezes, yadda yadda yadda) and I realised when I re-read it that it contained a string [...]
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In my first few months as a teacher in Korea, I had the privilege unspeakable nightmare of training the children to perform in an English Show for their parents. It was somewhat stressful. Even now, two years later, there is a children’s song that I absolutely categorically refuse to sing ever again in my entire [...]
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I woke up suddenly, opening my eyes, blinking, in that confusing period of dual reality when part of your brain still thinks that the dream you were having is real. (UNNECESSARY INFORMATION: In this particular instance, the dream was centered around my sister and I sitting alone in a big house as I blew out [...]
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You Say Goodbye, I Say… Historical Snapshots It Just Makes Me Happy
