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ChuSeok holiday - Korean wedding
From a learning game in my kindy classroom:
Slick Nick
does a quick trick
with a stick
and a thick brick.This past weekend the Republic of Korea celebrated ChuSeok (think Korean Thanksgiving) so I went to Seoul with Kate & Randy. We took the train, and with all the traffic from people going home for the second largest holiday in the country I ( Read more... ) -
tea and rafting
THE DREAM OF TEA
Ceylon Tea.
Now dream of Tea is distilled each pure drop
a tear of joy
A vision of paradise for men
lost in their dreams
Sailing the Indian Ocean towards new horizons
Ceylon Tea.Ah, the poetry of product packaging. Now, on to rafting ( Read more... ) -
dry spell
Wah!!! I totally intended to update about my week and talk about the field trip I went on with the kids to a grape farm in addition to the rafting I did on Saturday. Oh yeah, and to return a bunch of e-mails that have been piling up, but I was invited to go play basketball again and we hung out afterwards for a while. If it makes up for me not ( Read more... ) -
kids say the darndest things
Last week a kid said I looked like a "China person."
Today my morning class guessed my age at 40.
One boy said I was handsome and he liked my chest hair, but I think he wanted something from me. -
part two
Sorry for the interruption ( Read more... ) -
overheard tunes
strange songs I've heard coming from outside:
an icecream truck sounding Greensleaves
The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men -
Journey Pictures
From Narita airport: a sign, one of the stores that almost made me miss my flight, and my food in a decorative box (the man beside me complimented my chopstick skills)
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fire engine
Driving to Newark on 41, I saw a firetruck for sale in the grass off to the left. $4000. I want to buy the firetruck.
Better yet, on the way back, there was a dude changing the price. Now it's only 35 hundred. I'm driving back to newarcadia's house next year and if it's still there, it's mine. I just need to find someone to operate my rear end.
