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Not to be boorish or anything... 2007-07-24 06:23:00 A new fried chicken restaurant recently opened in my neighborhood. Can you guess what international chain they stole their logo idea from?
Still not sure?
How about now?There aren't any scantily clad women or anything
- just chicken.
Look what I bought! 2007-07-28 05:00:00 Now if only I were still taking belly dancing lessons!
The Gnashing of Teeth and the Cuteness of Mia 2007-07-27 07:50:00 This isn't Konglish, just really bizarre:And the kid who was wearing it had no idea what it said/meant.Meanwhile, here's someone who would never gnash her teeth.So cute and innocent! Read more:Cuteness
Not to be boorish or anything... 2007-07-24 06:23:00 A new fried chicken restaurant recently opened in my neighborhood. Can you guess what international chain they stole their logo idea from?Still not sure?How about now?There aren't any scantily clad women or anything
- just chicken.
Transparency! 2007-07-23 09:36:00 This week's topic over at BlogSupergroup is transparency - and no, I don't mean that transparent shirt that I'd totally be wearing were I still going to Russia. You'll have to check it out to see what I mean :-) And feel free to share your thoughts! Read more:Transparency
Boo :-( 2007-07-21 23:34:00 Well, it seems that I won't be going to Siberia next month after all. See, in order to go to Russia, you need to have a visa. In order to get a visa, you must first receive a visa invitation from the person, organization or travel agency which is sponsoring your entry into Russia. The person, organization or travel agency must apply to a visa office in Russia to receive the official visa invitation. I had been told that my invitation would be ready as of July 18th, at which point they would express mail it to me here in Korea. Once I had the invitation in hand, I would take it down to the Russian consulate in Busan to apply for my visa. Now, you can get your visa in one day... if you want to pay something like $400. The longer you're able to wait for your visa, the cheaper it is. As such, I was very much hoping to have that invitation in hand as soon as possible. Then last night I received an email saying that my invitation would not be ready until August 10th. It would still have t
Putin’s Russia: All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again 2007-07-21 06:40:00 This is a post on Russia
’s political history. It probably won’t be interesting to a lot of you, but I was inspired to write this up by some comments left the other day regarding Putin
. My apologies to my readers who come here looking for info on Korea :-) Before I begin this post, I want to provide a little bit of my personal background in this area so you’ll know where I’m coming from. When I was in college, I double majored in Russian (language and culture) and international politics (with a focus on US-Russian relations). I earned my degree in 2001, and since then I’ve simply been a dilettante when it comes to studying these topics. I am by no means an expert. I am also not a sociologist. I’ve never taken any classes in sociology, so all of my ideas pertaining to group behavior which I’ll present here are simply based on my personal observations on the ways people behave.The first thing you need to know about my little theory is that I’m a believer in cyclical histor
I am seriously light-headed. 2007-07-19 22:43:00 As in my head weighs less now.You know, without the hair and all.I went back to the same place where I'd gotten my hair cut before - I walk past that place every day, and ever since that first haircut, they always wave at me. Anyway, our school's chain recently put out an advertisement containing pictures of all of the Oedae teachers in Daegu... so of course I'm on it. Here's what it looks like:Anyway, as soon as I walk into the hair salon, they start saying something about a hogwan (private academy, such as the one where I teach) - I had no idea what they were talking about. Then they went behind their desk, rummaged around, pulled out the above ad, pointed to my picture and said "Jane!" (It's not labeled with my name, so they actually remembered my name.) So awesome. Then I gave them this picture and asked them to re-create it on my head. And they did. Read more:light
Shadows? 2007-07-19 01:12:00 The topic this week over at BlogSupergroup is "shadows" and it's essentially open to the interpretation of the blogger. I wrote about the shadowy world of government contractors here, if you're interested. Read more:Shadows
GyeongJu: Bulguksa and Museum Q 2007-07-17 22:14:00 As of Korean Constitution Day 2001, Melissa and I had been in South Korea for little more than three weeks. Constitution Day was our first holiday, and we decided to spend it by going to the nearby city of GyeongJu (often transliterated as KyongJu). As part of that trip, I made my very first visit to a Buddhist temple, learned how to properly mix bibimbop, how not to burn garlic while cooking galbi, and rode a bike 30+ kilometers. It seemed fitting that six years later I would return to GyeongJu to celebrate Constitution Day.We took the bus from the Express Bus Terminal next to Dongdaegu Station (cost about $3.70), and it took approximately one hour to get in to GyeongJu. A visit to the bathroom in the GyeongJu Express Bus Terminal yielded this gem:Turned out that the "foreigner only" toiletwas the only non-squatter. Yay!After making sure to photograph the foreigner only toilets, our first destination was Bulguksa (sometimes transliterated as Pulguksa), a Buddhist temple originally fou Read more:Museum
feral cat habitat and a kitten dilemma UPDATED!!! 2007-07-17 07:45:00 UPDATE: As of late last night, the kitten was still trapped in the yard next door, yowling. At one point, it's mother was on top of the wall, crying down to it - one of the saddest sights ever. This morning, all was silent. There was no sign or sound of the kitten next door. I was worried that the owners of the next door villa had gotten annoyed and chased it out into the street. I went up on the roof, and was only able to see one kitten in the attic. However, this evening I went up there and saw three pairs of eyes reflecting in my flashlight - the kitten has been reunited with its mother and sibling :-) Today was Constitution Day - a national holiday here in Korea. As such, I had the day off from work. Rob and I decided to go to GyeongJu (after all, it was Constitution Day 2001 when I *first* went to GyeongJu!) and I have tons of photos to share with you. However, you're going to have to wait until tomorrow to see them, as I am exhausted. Instead, for those of you who have wondered Read more:dilemma
A successful wallow! 2007-07-16 08:41:00 Rob and I successfully made it to the Boryeong Mud Festival and back over the weekend... and it was certainly an adventure. I've provided a map below so you'll have some sort of an idea of where we went. Because Rob had to work on Saturday, we didn't leave Daegu until 7:30pm. We took the KTX (express train) from Daegu to the CheonanAsan station. CheonanAsan turned out to be two stations right next to each other (Cheonan and Asan - surprise!) and we had to make the transfer from Cheonan to Asan in 12 minutes *and* find the right platform. This led to us full-out running through the terminals and staggering onto the platform desperately out of breath. Luckily, we made the transfer in time to catch the train. From Asan we took the mungwha (slow-ass commuter) train to Daecheon Station in Boryeong, and from there we took a taxi to Daecheon Beach. It wasn't the most direct route, but given how bad traffic can get on weekends - especially near tourist destinations - we figured trains woul
Off to go frolic in the mud... 2007-07-13 09:22:00 Well, I'm not heading anywhere just as yet, but as of tomorrow evening I will be on my way to Daecheon Beach (somewhere to the north-west of here) for the Boryeong Mud Festival. The goal is to roll around in the mud, take lots of photos (without mucking up the camera), and try to land the position of token foreigner in next year's poster.
First photo of stray Mama Cat 2007-07-12 08:35:00 I'm still feeding the feral cats that live in Mr. Yu's attic. The kittens still flee (complete with cartoon-like windmill-foot action) whenever I approach, although Mama Cat will sit still as long as I don't try to approach her. She even perks up her ears when I speak to her... but if I approach her, she starts hissing. She is still nursing her kittens, although her boob-area seems more swollen than would be accounted for by simple milk. I'm worried about her, although I've no way of catching her - and somehow I doubt the vets here would be able/willing to deal with an angry feral. Read more:First
Cup-o-Snails and Don't Touch Me! 2007-07-10 09:07:00 One of my students came to class with a cup full of snails today.I thought this notebook was pretty awesome......especially with the dog-pee detail work! Read more:Snails
I could have told you that! 2007-07-09 22:52:00 This morning my friend Brooke sent me a link which her mom thought I'd find interesting. It's to an NPR segment entitled Ethnic Bias Seen in South Korea Teacher Hiring. You should all definitely go give it a listen.
America: why we think it's so great 2007-07-09 22:48:00 As per request, this week on BlogSupergroup we're writing about the good things about the USA. Oddly enough, the first post was written by our one BSG blogger who technically *isn't* America
n. Anyway, feel free to follow the discussion all this week on BlogSupergroup! Read more:think
Two kittens *still* need a home! 2007-07-06 21:06:00 Even though we've found a home for two of the stray kittens
abandoned on my doorstep in Waycross, there are still two left. So come on - you know you want a kitten! Let me know if you're interested.The black cat, Indie, is little more than a kitten herself(Indie was found in February),but the little grey kitten, GG, has "adopted" her as her mom!In fact, both kittens have adopted Indie :-)To give you a true sense of the size of the kittens (since Indie is so small and all), here's a shot of GG curled up next to my mom's cat, Ruffy.
Ever wondered why? 2007-07-05 22:38:00 Ever wondered how I ended up living in South Korea and owning a home in (of all places) Waycross, GA? Well, if you have (or even if you haven't) today it your lucky day. Go check out my post on this topic over at BlogSupergroup!
July 4th.... 1998 2007-07-04 13:06:00 Here in Korea, it's not as if I did a damn thing to celebrate the Fourth of July. In fact, I had forgotten all about it until I pulled out my calendar to see what the date was. Last year for the Fourth, my mom and I went to Frank's house, where Frank put on a rather splendiferous fireworks display. I've been told that this year's display at Frank's is supposed to be bigger and better. This year wasn't nearly as interesting; in fact, I spent the bulk of it really sick and crappy feeling. But, I do have something that might interest you:The summer of 1998, I lived in Gainesville, FL, with my friends Melissa and Tina, who were students at UF. I spent a lot of the summer impersonating a UF student: I snuck into classes (hey - you knew I was a geek already!), attended a non-credit course on self hypnosis (happy, healthy, high levels of energy), frequently used the computer lab, and got myself pictured in the UF newspaper, The Alligator, as a UF sophomore. (Well, technically, the repor
Damn it's hot out there. 2007-07-31 05:37:00 I went for another walk today, this time out behind Gwen's new apartment along the Geumgang River. I should have stayed in my nice airconditioned apartment. It was incredibly hot, humid and hazy out there. I took a bunch of pictures and then staggered home, drenched in sweat, overheated and suffering from quite a headache. I spent the remainder of my day naked and in front of the AC. My plans for tomorrow (my last day of summer vacation) include sitting in front of the AC all day long. I found the new Geumgang Train Station. Not sure if it's open yet.There were fields of farmland and giant waterlilies.Only one was flowering. It's really big.For some perspective, see how big the lily is next to the train station!There I am!There I am again! The Geumgang River.This was as far as I went, as this was where the headache struck.On my walk to the river, down a tiny alleyway in the middle of nowhere was parked a Daegu city bus. The driver was conked out in one of the passenger seats, sound
Some photos from today's walk 2007-07-30 07:26:00 I have Monday through Wednesday off this week (our school's summer vacation), although I had/have no real plans for my five-day weekend. Saturday: go shopping with Donna. Check. Sunday: watch CSI with Gwen. Check. Today: no plans. I didn't set my alarm, so I had a fabulously long night's sleep and got a rather late start on my day. However, since it was such a beautiful day, I decided to try out my new hiking shoes (which turned out to be the most comfortable things ever - even if I detest the whole hiking-shoe-style). I picked a road that went north from my part of East Daegu which headed north towards the mountains, and set off. Here are my photos
- Enjoy!I took the road heading north from the Bangchon subway station.It didn't take me very long to get out of the city.I found the back side of K-2, the Korean Airforce Base here in Daegu.I swear they take great pleasure in buzzing Banyawol with their F-16s.There was a lot of farmland.Such a pretty day.See - there I am!Rural railwayB
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