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Sep 1 2010
20 Things I've Learned From Traveling Around the World for Three Years

Some things I agreed with in this article:

People are generally good: There is no race, religion or nationality that is exempt from this rule.

The media makes us scared of the rest of the world, and we shouldn’t be.

I haven’t encountered a single case of anti-Americanism in the last three-and-a-half years. Not one. (And no, I don’t tell people I am Canadian.)

The rest of the world isn’t full of germs.

Modernization is not Westernization: Modernization will certainly change a culture, but that doesn’t mean they are trying to mimic the West.

Everyone should travel.

(reblogged from ghostinjules)
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Aug 30 2010
Trashy movie + 3D and vibrating seats + soju + an awesome dude I’m not telling you about = quite an entertaining way to spend my Sunday evening. Start of a new term + having to stay three hours later than I should have for a meeting that got us nowhere + work politics = not a great way to spend my Monday. At least my new students seem pretty awesome, and I get to spend the rest of my night watching True Blood…

Trashy movie + 3D and vibrating seats + soju + an awesome dude I’m not telling you about = quite an entertaining way to spend my Sunday evening.

Start of a new term + having to stay three hours later than I should have for a meeting that got us nowhere + work politics = not a great way to spend my Monday.

At least my new students seem pretty awesome, and I get to spend the rest of my night watching True Blood…

Aug 26 2010
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The Black Keys - “Girl Is on My Mind”

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From the meet-up last weekend, and thanks to Ryan’s sweet camera.  David’s heart-shaped sweat stain adds a nice touch.

From the meet-up last weekend, and thanks to Ryan’s sweet camera.  David’s heart-shaped sweat stain adds a nice touch.

that would be an interesting conversation...

  1. Textbook: If you could invent anything, what would it be?
  2. Erin: I would invent a talking poo poo! [Shows the class pictures of poop dancing and eating ice cream.]
  3. Me: And what would you talk about with this poo poo?
  4. Erin: EVERYTHING!
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Aug 25 2010

last day of intensives: my brain is dead

  1. Co-worker: Wanna go get dinner?
  2. Me: No, I gotta save money. I'll make something at home.
  3. Co-worker: Come on, it'll only be like 5$.
  4. Me: If you.. if you give a man a fish.. he will eat it. Wait...
  5. Co-worker: ???
  6. Me: If you give a man a fish, he will eat it... If you give him a fishing pole... Wait, what am I saying?
  7. Co-worker: What ARE you saying?
Aug 24 2010
Hope your birthday was great, Paige.  Miss youuu and I’ll see you in Asia in six months, yes?

Hope your birthday was great, Paige.  Miss youuu and I’ll see you in Asia in six months, yes?

bluemeaway: I could tell this was Seoul.  I’m going to miss it so much when I have to leave in six months.  Already—only six months left!  T_T (via)

bluemeaway:

I could tell this was Seoul.  I’m going to miss it so much when I have to leave in six months.  Already—only six months left!  T_T

(via)

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Aug 23 2010

poops

I have a younger student who is—like many Koreans it seems—obsessed with poo.

“Look, teacher!  A poo mouse!”  Holds up his book to show me a drawing he made of a pile of poop with mouse ears and a tail.

Today they had to write a story about playing something.  He wrote about how he and his friends were playing a “gas” (farting) game.  His friend farted.  He farted.  Then his dog farted.  The dog’s was the loudest, so he was crowned the winner.  

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something i learned tonight:

Even at 10:15pm on a Sunday, there will be at least four girls standing outside of the SM Entertainment agency in Cheongdam waiting for a chance to see one of the idols leave.  And nooo, I was not one of them.  

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