tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108820302012-02-04T22:14:30.637+09:00미국원숭이입니다~wheynnenoreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10882030.post-49230123401362135842010-02-03T21:23:00.003+09:002010-02-03T21:36:29.848+09:00

On the twenty-sixth 정원 and I started the day with a trip to the laundry mat. Afterwards, we stopped back at mom's to unload the laundry and to brush Dolly. Next, we drove out to Roger's house. This was a bit of an experience for 정원. Roger has all sorts of ducks, geese, and chickens running around his property, as well as a pony.After some time there, we went up to Roger's parent's house.

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This was 정원's first American style Christmas. Usually in Korea just one or two presents are given. Even then, the presents are usually something needed, and not something wanted. We had a great time opening our gifts with Mom and Kenny. Enough to pretty well drain the battery in the camera.Later, Mom and I went to my grandmother's house. We didn't spend too much time there and only about

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Christmas Eve was an eventful day around the house. We had blueberry pancakes before taking Dolly out for her morning walk. Then, after it warmed up, I took 정원 out to show her how to shoot a BB gun. After she learned how to sight down the barrel we went around back and she tried shooting the .410 shotgun. She hit her target (a board) both times. We went in because it started sprinkling and

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Busy, busy around Seoul. On the twenty-third we we had a relaxing day. We woke up to coffeecake. 정원 and I had to go into town to pick up a few things. It took longer than expected and we didn't get back home until sunset.

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We spent the next day around Mom's house. We started the day off by feeding the goats and walking Dolly before breakfast, our usual morning chores. Then after it warmed up we went to the "shed" on the back of Mom's land to clear off some shelves that she was worried about. The shed is really an old mobile home and most of the pasteboard is rotting from exposure and age. We cleared off the

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On day 3 I took 정원 into town for some shopping. On the way there I stopped at a field and asked a farmer if I could get some cotton for my wife, and in normal Georgian style he said, "Sure, grab all ya want!" I took a twig from a plant and then went on into Albany. We took a detour through Doublegate and Darton College to show 정원 the other side of Albany and where I started my college

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We woke up early Sunday morning to dump cake. Mom doesn't like to make dump cake because it isn't very pretty. However, how can a cake with cherries and pineapple be resisted? I showed Jungwon around Mom's property then we took a trip out to Kitty's Flea Market. Afterwards we grabbed a quick meal at Taco Bell, then we went on to Winn Dixie. Back at home I let 정원 try sugar cane, and then we

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To say it's been a while would be an understatement. Some really exciting things have happened during the past year, I just haven't been online enough to really write about them. Recently, however, I took 정원 to meet my parents. We were there from December nineteenth until January second. I'll do a post for each day that we were there to help sort out the pictures.We took a bus to Incheon at

wheynnenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10882030.post-68116916951666024412008-07-06T22:03:00.003+09:002008-07-06T22:07:53.028+09:00

     To say that we've been busy is an understatement. It started just before Jungwon's graduation from the SMU Tesol Program. We had a few weekends full of her final class projects which included a foreigner interview (guess who was the foreigner), a lot of typing, and very little sleep.     Just before her graduation, after the projects were submitted, the celebrating began. We had a

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     In my previous post I had mentioned my camera acting up. There have been times that it refused to focus, and on my birthday it totally locked up while I was trying to take a picture of Jungwon. I finally got it to unfreeze, and tried to reset its power, but it wouldn't come on for five minutes. I concluded that it was time to look for a new camera.     I had read about the Samsung L210,

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     Well, my birthday came and went without a hitch. It was actually pretty relaxed. I ran a couple of errands and rested while Jungwon took a midterm, then she took me out to interesting restaurant/bar/gallery named N To.     N To is nicely decorated, a little dark, and not very popular. The lack of popularity is partly because it is in the basement of the building that houses the more well

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     Plus One sent me to Hong Kong last week to get my E-2 visa. The reason that they send their teachers to Hong Kong is that it is supposed to be a one day process there. Yes it can be one day, but the policy is two days. Luckily the lady that works there has a heart of gold and she did mine in one day, and I was able to catch my flight.     I had a working day to kill while I was waiting on

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     I have officially started at my new job. It's amazing that I can work a "long" day at the school, eat supper, buy some necessities for the apartment, and still get home before seven. Coupled with the fact that the owner of the school keeps telling me not to rush or to try to go through the lessons in a certain amount of time, I am feeling mightily relaxed. The school has this crazy new

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     When I first looked around this neighborhood it was dark, and hideously cold outside. I did not know exactly where I was, I only had a faint map and address that I had printed off the internet. The streets were not brightly lit, and I stumble across this monstrosity of a graffitied building. I had a feeling that my new apartment was not going to be in an ideal neighborhood. I finally

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     I was sitting in a coffee shop Sunday morning flipping through an art and design magazine. This is the sort of neighborhood that has coffee shops, and they are open on Sunday mornings. The coffee shop I went to is the sort of coffee shop that provides you with high-brow magazines. The magazine I picked was mostly about objects. Cars, daily planners, cellphones, furniture, anything that

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     I am in a state of transition. It is a bit like being a minnow in tapioca pudding. Friday was my last day at Sungdong POLY, and I am now finishing up the last hurdles of the new visa process, and should hopefully begin teaching at PlusOne by the beginning of March.     Why the change? Well, I'm still searching for a school with integrity. POLY quickly proved itself to not be such a

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     It's amazing how the destruction of a site that I barely visited can affect me so strongly. The people around me today (namely at the hakwon) have expressed little emotion towards the event, but just hearing about it, and later seeing the pictures that accompanied the Associated Press Article has left me feeling a bit hollow. I can only assume that this is because I consider Korea as my

wheynnenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10882030.post-65551248640053611812008-01-07T22:51:00.000+09:002008-01-07T23:23:00.001+09:00

     Happy 2008, everyone! The end of 2007 was fairly eventful for me. On the 15th Jungwon and I had an action packed day. It started off with ring shopping at Insadong and Chungro 3Ga. This was followed up by some coffee at the Insadong Starbucks, and then meeting Sarah and Michael. The four of us then went to a ceramics party that Jungwon's friend was catering, and then on to some fancy

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     Today is our one year anniversary!     That is all.

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     It's been a long month. Dad has come and gone from Korea, Jungwon and I went to Namsan, and of course there was Halloween at the school. I'll keep the text short, and let the pictures do the talking.NamsanHalloweenDad

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     I have finally, officially met Jungwon's mom, twice. In case I haven't mentioned it the first meeting was accidental at a coffee shop just after we started dating.     For the first official meeting we decided to have lunch in Seolae Maeul, which is a small neighborhood in Seoul that was apparently, at one time, home to a clump of French people. We went to one of my favorite restaurants

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     For anyone that didn't know, I had to take a trip out of Korea. My work visa was expiring. Therefore I needed to leave, and reenter on a tourist visa.     To set up the trip, I was just going to check on what I would need to go to China. I started off by going to Hana Tour, where the lady quickly told me that I'm not allowed to leave the country because my visa was expiring. I tried to

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     Back in July, Jungwon and I went to the Han River. The Han River (Hangang {한강}) is the main river that runs through the center of Seoul. We took the number 2 (green) subway line to Sincheon Station {신천역} and walked north for a block to get to the river. The area that we walked around was a public park of sorts. There was a swimming pool, a walkway that was fairly crowded with people, and

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     One day while we were walking through Yeongtong, Jungwon noticed one of the new restaurants. She got really excited. After about a month we finally made it to the restaurant.     The restaurant is named Kimmyeongja {김명자} and they specialize in octopus. After work tonight Jungwon and I stopped by to order a couple of freshly chopped squirmy things and soju.     The restaurant itself was

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     Unfortunately I'm going to skip posting about the Turkish restaurant that we ate at on Sunday. We didn't take many pictures, and the few we did take were too dark to make the food look yummy. Instead of Kebab, I present, Shabu-Shabu!     Shabu-shabu is one of the meals that is so healthy, yet so yummy, you can't stop eating. Jungwon suggested that we stop by a local restaurant for lunch

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     As of late, I've been busy looking for another job. I didn't have to start this early but I did, and I hope that I've found a good one. I'm not going to hold my breath. Both of my previous jobs in Korea sounded great until after the VISA.     Now, I know that people come here to see pictures and movies of Korea and hopefully me, and not to hear me whine or rant about work. Instead I'll

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     Teaching English as a second language has its fun moments. Often the children will say or make wonderful comments that deserve prosperity. I had two such noteworthy moments yesterday.     My first class yesterday was four first graders. The reason why there are only four children in the class is because their English is so far above and beyond the abilities of the other first graders the

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     Jungwon had been wanting to go to the zoo for a while so last Sunday we kicked things off by watching Shrek the Third at CoEx, and then heading down to Seoul Grand Park.     First the specifics. Seoul Grand Park is on the number 4 line (light blue) 3 stops below Sadang {사당역}. It is subway station number 437 and is listed as Seoul Grand Park {대공원}. When you get off the subway simply

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     When I first got to Korea, summer was steadily approaching. As the days got warmer and warmer I kept seeing signs for cups of crushed ice and fruit, for about 5,000 won. I would think, "5,000 won for a cup of ice and fruit! Who in there right mind would pay that? That's more than $5.00 for ice!" After a summer of walking about the cities, and the new summer pouncing on us like an

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     Roses are the flowers that you give to a pretty lady to let her know that you care. Roses like to be pruned, they like a little fertilizer, they like a little love. When I see a flower shop I like to stop and look at the different colored roses in the window. When I see a rose bush I think about how much care has been given to it based on how tall it is, or how much it is blooming.     

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     Almost every restaurant in Korea will give you complimentary side dishes. If you go out for pasta, you'll usually get some sweet pickled cucumbers and some sliced peppers. The more Korean the meal, the more side dishes you'll get.     I go out for kimchi jjigae {김치찌개} and along with my large bowl of still boiling stew and side bowl of rice they leave me all types of pickled and preserved.

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     Public transportation is very, cheap, easy, and convenient in Seoul. Sometimes there are subway stops just half a block from each other, and buses run everywhere. You can buy rechargeable cards that will scan on both the buses and the subways through your purse or wallet. A trip from Suwon to Seoul by bus costs a mere 1,700 won (about $2 in US money).     Unfortunately this means that the

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     Jungwon and I were stepping into an elevator in Gangnam the other day. The elevator was already occupied by a mommie and her little one gurgling in a stroller. The mommie took a quick look at me, then started talking excitedly to the baby. Jungwon giggled, but most of the words went over my head. I listened intently but she was speaking too rapidly and I couldn't pick out many words.

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     Here is the latest installment of Descending Life Line. If you can't read the text in the image the mommie is telling the baby, "Say hello! Say hello!"     At the bottom I wrote, "Often when Parents see you on the street they will try to get their children to practice English..."

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     Here is a little comic that I doodled while I was sitting in a coffee shop in Seoul. I was thinking about the strangeness of teaching children in a language that they don't completely understand. The particular class that I was envisioning has the disadvantages of almost no English, attention span, or chances to release excess energy before class. Luckily there has been no actual fires,

wheynnenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10882030.post-38751750897053348452007-05-27T12:43:00.000+09:002007-06-07T22:08:14.925+09:00

     Most of the pictures in the next web album are from the hike up the mountain that I took this morning. Cheongmyeong-san {청명산} is a nice, very little mountain. It takes about an hour to climb up, and 45 minutes to come back down.      About half way up from Yeongtong-dong {영통동} (the neighborhood I live in) you'll come to a leveled off area called Noble County. I've heard that it's a

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     I mentioned in my email about Icheon that I made some movies, but was working on converting/editing them. I couldn't find any decent looking freeware to do the converting/editing. Instead I found a way to post them on line in the full horrible glory, Google Video.     They are horrible do to my own lacking. My Nikon digital camera has very few movie making options. I have very little

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     Bongeunsa {봉은사 } is a Buddhist temple in Seoul. It is just a short walk from CoEx (Samseong Station {삼성역}). The temple was especially busy and decorated when we were there, because this coming Thursday (May twenty-fourth) is the celebration of Buddha's Birthday (Hooray for National Holidays!).     It was very odd walking around the rustic grounds in Seoul. Everything surrounding the temple

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