Here's another shirt I saw on the street recently (photo from engrish.com):


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*** Important question ***

Will any of you actually be in Boston between July 18 and August 9?

I'm thinking of cutting Boston out of my itinerary because I haven't gotten a response that anyone except
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I Can Has Future Plans! Part II

I finally got some information I had been waiting for, so I can now figure out plans for my time in the U.S. this summer! I want to see y'all, so your input is highly encouraged.

Current plans go something like this, but are highly subject to change based on your recommendations (click to see actual Google Calendar ( Read more... )

Have you ever liked the idea of doing something, but then when you tried it, you discovered you didn't actually like doing it?

This was my predicament until today. You see, for weeks I have been consumed by a singular obsession: to become a coffeehouse aficionado. For the first time in my life I had the time and money to do so, and I mean, isn't ( Read more... )

Brilliant t-shirt I saw today:

Dear God, How Come You're Never On TV?

:)

I Can Has Future Plans!

Last week I had the curious honor of signing away 2 years of my life to teach at the Independent Schools Foundation Academy of Awesome. Okay, so the "of Awesome" was added by me, but I'm pretty excited to be working there. It's a bilingual immersion school, with classes taught in Mandarin and English, which I think is ( Read more... )

And fancy has struck! Here's your first vignette:

Last Tuesday was Children's Day, a national holiday, which meant no school or work across the country. What a great idea, right? Everyone gets the day off to celebrate being a kid!

So I decided to climb Wolchulsan, a mountain about 1 hour south of Gwangju. As soon as I announced my plans, the ( Read more... )

I had grand ideas about getting up before 7 this morning, going to the airport, and being on the next flight to beautiful Jeju Island (because apparently in Korea you can book a domestic flight the day of and no one will bat an eyelash). I had mountains to climb! bizarre museums to visit! sushi to eat!...

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If you look up the definition of "teach" at the venerable WordReference.com, the very first entry is the following:

teachAnoun 1 Teach, Edward Teach, Thatch, Edward Thatch, Blackbeard  an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
Avast! Seeing as I'm a teacher, does that make me a ( Read more... )

So I'm studying Korean and then my host brother and sister come in and put two hamsters on my lap!


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