December 2010
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Watch the ball drop live tomorrow on facebook. →
I will. Sort of wouldn’t feel quite right if not. IT WOULDN’T FEEL LIKE THE YEAR WAS NEW.
BONUS:
I’m eating this pineapple slice and it smells a little funky, so I looked up on the internet: “How can you tell when pineapple is bad?” Apparently somebody else had this question too, and someone else just point blank answered “When it starts to turn...
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Thank you, Obama!!
According to a piece of mail my dad just got [please let me not jinx it, fingers crossed, knocking on wood] I now have insurance in America under my parents’ plan [Blue Cross] because of Obama’s under-26 legislation.
So happy. Good things are coming!
The reason this is so relevant is because in February I will be going home to see my specialist and she’s so expensive…...
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I'm glad this happened today and not Monday.
[/there was a rant here but it shouldn’t be preserved.]
Tonight I’m going to clean my apartment thoroughly and do massive laundry. I don’t know when this whole “meet the new year with a clean house for good luck” thing started for me, but I do it.
I just had bad luck today, that’s all. Met the two cab drivers out of thousands in Incheon who are just assholes...
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Why is everyone in U-Kiss looking so attractive...
This question is incorrect. U-Kiss being capable of unattractive does not compute.
-wiggles fingers at them-
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“How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
ugh~ it’s this...”
– CTFXC
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Good morning, Tumblr
First and foremost, where are all of you going? Take your coat off and stay awhile :< let’s halt followers exodus 3.0 . [Quitters: Boo, you whores]
What’s going on with me? Not much. There’s just not much to blog about. It’s cold as balls, I’m deskwarming until March [with the exception of English Camp in a couple weeks and my vacation at the end of Feb,] and...
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Robots to Replace Foreign English Teachers? →
I don’t really want to talk about this, seeing as it makes me mad because it enables xenophobia on so many levels, but interested in what others are thinking. I just find that last paragraph so revealing. It’s being received with enthusiasm over here from what I’ve heard… pffffffft
I try not to have kneejerk reactions to shitty news stories but I’ve actually had...
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sajasmom:
ginnyteacher said: Force them to be Slytherins. I don’t know how old your kids are… but I find making an example out of a couple kids goes a long way, being clear about why they’re being punished… iono that’s not everybody’s style :( Fightinggg
Yes, I’m working on ways to regain some control as I’m sitting here desk-warming! I have a better feeling about tomorrow. Maybe I was a bit...
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It's snowing.
Awww son of a…
I like snow. Sure do. But this snow is the loose, watery kind. I am going to bust my ass on the way home. I will fall right down.
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“During World War II, Tsutomu Yamaguchi lived in Nagasaki, but he just happened...”
– cracked.com … Life if pretty good. [point out again that he went back to work Two Days Later]
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New Year's Resolutions [preliminary]
1. Lose more weight, get more toned and into being active. Yoga? Climb a mountain like a real Korean would do? [not that I’m not “real” Korean. You know. They like climbing mountains.]
2. Finally do something with my post-college academic life. Tackle FUTURE, either do the grad application or forget about it and throw into top gear into something else. Be ambitious and go...
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Dear anorexics on tumblr
Stop. Tagging. Your. Posts. With. The word: Pizza.
I don’t need to read your “oh, my friends came over with a pizza but I faked a stomachache so I wouldn’t need to eat it heeheehee look here’s another picture of my spine” when it’s 1:30 in the morning and I just want to look at pictures of heart shaped pizzas.
Life’s too short. Pictures of your spine...
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A Newish International Hospital in Incheon
From Sarah at the Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education:
The International Healthcare Center opened its door in 2009, and has been providing medical services mainly for foreigners as the name implies. It is entirely patient-centered facility, which is staffed by doctors and nurses who are fluent in several languages including Chinese, English, Japanese, and Russian. The Center has been...
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Subcultural Girl: I Am So Hungry Right Now. →
subculturalxgirl:
I want so much chinese food that I almost want to puke.
I want a chilli dog and enough chilli cheese fries to give me a food coma.
I want a huge carnitas burrito with everything from El Toro.
I want a sausage, pepperoni, bell pepper, mushroom, black olive, bacon, extra sausage large pizza all…
This person and I are on a similar wavelength right now.
Though, I...
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My Winter Camp Schedule, if you need ideas.
Day 1
Ice breakers & Hello
Listening Activity 1 – Mean Girls (vocab and Q&A)
Let’s Cook Together – A Chicken Wrap~ (vocab, cooking demo, making, and eating)
Day 2
Writing and Interpreting an Illustrative Poem
Immersion Games - Mafia
Day 3
Listening Activity 2 – Mean Girls
An Amazing Race (race to find and solve the clues)
Research and Presentation (using the clues, research and...
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driventolive asked: Hi! I read from one of your posts that you own an LG Lollipop. Just like to ask if the phone is worth buying. Or is the Samsung Nori F better? :)
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“When you say “Islam,” the first mental image that pops into mind...”
– cracked.com huh. Learning things from cracked.
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Well... well
Sweetest coteacher told me [and I blindly trusted it, so let’s blindly trust it together because she’s sweet and never lies] that apparently the government is controlling entertainment [just music videos? I don’t know] now, especially in terms of what kpop starlets are allowed to wear and what sort of dances are ok.
You know, I really have noticed that. I didn’t really...
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Mmmm messssage
Before class.
me: -staring-
student: -laying bodily against the whiteboard, reading the message about the lunchtime program, stops at the word lunchtime and begins circling it drunkenly with her finger- mmm Lunchtime… lunchtime…
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Apparently there was galbijim for lunch and they’re all hungry because it was gross.
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Conflict at Lunchtime
This semester, since I don’t have any afterschool classes, the lunchtime program has been largely my favorite sort of domain. Only good, motivated students generally come since it’s voluntary and the building is out of their way. This week however, all that has changed since attendance has not been high enough to merit the end of the semester prize for the top student. To up attendance...
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My Mother Would Be Angry If She Knew
How I get dressed in the morning.
1. Insert hand into massive pile of clothes in my closet, tool around for something that feels like a shirt and pull it out.
2. Match colors.
3. Put on pants. [in Winter, as skirts are mostly retired then.]
4. Go to school with an enormous coat on.
5. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday -> Repeat
6. Toss it all into the washer on Saturday.
7. Number 6...
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Things you can and can't show on Korean tv:...
Can’t:
1. Arm breaking
2. Certain aspects of a blue man [booty included. but only sometimes!]
3. People blowing apart
4. Guy’s cheek getting bit off, but barely. [only blurred the lips and could still basically see it anyway.]
5. The entire scene where Rorschach throws the hot grease on that one guy.
6. Malin Ackerman’s sideboob. [but only sometimes!]
Can:
1. Gunshots...
gayforbestresults asked: omg of course I will help you! I hope you come! ^_^
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Gay For Best Results: Re: Blog Explosion →
gayforbestresults:
soniassi:
And in other news, I am only 4 peppermint mochas away from the Starbucks 2011 Planner.
I MUST HAVE IT. Does anyone have it yet?? IT IS AMAZING???
If I don’t have it before December 31, I will die of sadness. They better have mocha stickers in Japan.
I GOT IT!…
I am 2 stickers away >:D
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Sick Day
When I woke up this morning with a now familiar [since Tuesday] pain in my stomach I was faced with two choices: Stay in and rest, or go to school and wait for it to get worse. Being a trooper [really I’m lazy but don’t want other people to know so I troop on] I got up and got dressed and ready to head out the door, but most of the way there I sat down on my bed and faced facts about...
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Pizza Points o'Clock
As established, my students collect pizza points all semester. Top class gets actual pizza, at least 5 points nets the option to watch a movie at certain times. This week is one of those times for the first graders.
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me: What movie? -ducks-
students: POWERPUFF GIRLSSSS POWERPUFFFF
other students: NOO!!!! LOST-euh!!! LOST-euh!!!
other other students: TWILIGHT TWILIGHT YOU CRAZY!!!...
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Kelly in Korea: A List - More Student Impressions... →
lauraallover:
kellyinkorea:
A few months ago my first grade students (sophomores in the U.S.) took their two-week “culture” trip to the United States. When they returned, we did a simple worksheet and had a discussion of their experiences. Here are a few of the questions I asked and some of their responses in their words.
What was one thing that surprised you?
America’s big & huge land
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Oh My God
me: -strolls into the classroom in my shortsleeved sweater-
well-known student: Oh my God, teacher, what happened?
me: Heh?
well-known student: -points- Aren’t you cold?
me: NO
students: OOOhhohhho -Ahhhhh~
They don’t know that when they’re not around the heat is on full blast, unlike when they’re there when it is merely acceptably warm. The heat gets turned off...
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“Dr. West, a British man, knew only one thing about the afterlife: that he...”
– cracked.com vampires are crafty. heeheeheehee hoohoohoohoo x)
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hotyellowfellows asked: A compliment: Your pizza party idea was f'ing amazing. It got most of my kids to do their homework for 3 months, it got some of them to stop speaking Korean in my classroom, and now I haven't had to teach four classes this week and instead get to eat free food. Implementing this again in January.