I Married A Fake Geek Girl; A Defense of Casual Fandom. Just for giggles, let’s start with bona fides. I’m going to be talking about fake geeks and casual fandom, after all, and I wouldn’t want anyone to take me too seriously on that front. I am a professional science fiction and fantasy author, most notably of the and series. I have twelve novels published or forthcoming in the field, all from big New York houses, as well as a heap of short stories and poems. This is my day job. I am also a Third Generation fan. I have a thank you note and picture from the cast of for my mother and grandmother’s help in the letter writing campaign that kept them on the air. My wife is a physics professor, a Second Generation fan, and a hardcore console RPG gamer among other geek-girl pursuits.
We also cosplay. Even worse, we did it for the sheer joy of it without a thought in the world of whether or not cosplaying outside our core fandoms might get us disbarred from the title of true geek. Confession time. What about Doctor Who? Drat, shoot and darn. About the Journey | Journey Count. The Kimchi Life. Asknow to Teach in South Korea | A Year in the Life of an ESL Teacher. Korea, Start! | This is the news from Dongbaek, South Korea... I guess I just couldn't stay away! Two and a half years after visiting my Big Bad Sister (don't worry, Snooks, I love you, you're wonderful) in South Korea, I'm here for my own year-long stint living abroad and teaching at a private English academy in Dongbaek--part of Yongin city--about an hour south of Seoul.
My school is called Yongin Dongbaek SLP. There are currently 9 other foreign teachers--all women from the U.S. and Canada--and what a wonderful bunch. As people told me before I left, you probably don't get a lot of people teaching abroad who really dislike human interaction, but still, I feel lucky to have my lot thrown in with this group. I teacher two kindergarden classes, called Kiwi and Lemon, each with 8 students. (All our kindergarden classes are named after fruits; we also have grape, apple, orange, pineapple, cherry and will have a banana class in January.) Korea’s “Pali-pali” Culture and It’s Dynamism | From Korea with Love. We had to call the restaurant twice to ask why the delivery was taking so long.
(The restaurant is just a few minutes away from our apartment.) We were told that it was a busy day and they had only one person to make deliveries. My husband didn’t argue nor cancel the order, though he was hungry as a bungry, but my hyeongnim did. (You know how it is with women. ^^) I am not trying to make a big fuss about the incident, but that was the first time I have experienced a delay in Korea. That doesn’t usually happen here. “Pali-pali” (빨리빨리) is a common Korean expression which means “Hurry up!” KTX (Korea Train Express) “Pali-pali” is every Korean’s way of life. At work, Koreans always arrive on time or sometimes even earlier. Incheon International Airport: One of the world’s best airports for four consecutive years A bendable phone? Korea’s remarkable technological advancement is also very evident with major corporations such as Samsung and LG. Related articles Like this: Like Loading... Related.
Korean Lessons | My Korean Corner. I’m often overwhelmed (and simply stunned) when reading Korean sentences that can get as long as… forever. Anyway, I’ve been trying to read a simple article about 씨름, for intermediate learners and I just can’t move on with this one simple sentence: 승자 진출 방식으로 진행되는 씨름 경기에서 최종적으로 이긴 장사에게는 상으로 황소를 주었다. After looking up new words in the dictionary I do get that this sentence means “The winner gets a cow.” Period. I know I can move on and proceed with my reading.
I almost gave up and was about to ask a friend to translate it for me in English, once and for all. I started with 황소. An ox (황소를) was given (주었다). Given as a what? 상으로 황소를 주었다 – an ox was given as a prize. To whom? What about the participant / What kind of participant? A participant that won (이긴 장사). So an ox was given as a prize to the participant who won (이긴 장사에게는 상으로 황소를 주었다). Won what? So, an ox was given as a prize to the participant who won as the champion. Where? In a Ssireum match (씨름 경기에서). I want to interpret it like this: Surviving Korea.
Jill in Korea. About. My husband and i left the US to live and teach in korea almost four years ago. i was heartbroken to find that korea’s cities are quickly following in america’s unsustainable footsteps. food traditions are being lost, fast food is a daily indulgence and families no longer have time to sit around the table together. so we moved to the countryside and fell in love with a slower, simpler way of life. we tended a vegetable garden with our neighbors, healed ourselves with traditional medicine, and learned to cook local dishes from the elders. i was raised on a diet of mac n’ cheese and fried fish sticks but, through much trial and error, i eventually learned to treat myself and my body better. i owe much gratitude to my colombian mother-in-law for teaching me how to cook real food. i now eat a gluten-free and mostly vegetarian diet full of whole foods, and i try to choose seasonal and local whenever i can.
Korean Snacks: What’s Your Favorite Korean Chocolate? « From Korea with Love. Just last week, I remember writing about the gift check we got from LG in a post “Freebies Galore“. A few days ago, my husband and I got another gift check from LG worth 200, 000 KRW (7,563 PHP or 177 USD), for signing a 3-year internet contract with them… yipee! ^^ After collecting the checks in Homeplus, we decided to spend some of the money to buy some of our favorite snacks. My husband is delighted when his mini-snack bar is full We are both chocolate lovers… the very reason we have gained weight since we got married and lived together. Ghana Mild Cacao is a product of Lotte.
This mini chocolate from Royal reminds me of the "pop rice" in the Philippines (similar to rice krispie treats), because of the crunchy crisp balls coated in milk chocolate. This is my favorite Korean chocolate. Watch out for the next post on Korean snacks… we will scream for ice cream!!! Like this: Like Loading... Related Celebrating Love in Korea "You're my rainbow, you're my star, you're my bright red cookie jar. Touch DAEGU. Yogini's Quest.
Pennies and Narwhals. Kimchibytes. ROKin' Around Korea. Cats and Kpop | (in Korea!) Callmejagi | The struggles that a 23 year old has– like working at a job you might not love and deciding whether that chai frapp is worth the 400 calories. The absence of help: a Korean girl’s testimony on recovering from an eating disorder | Mapping Words. “Staring at dots on the ceiling,” photo courtesy of somethingstartedcrazy Last year, one of my good Korean friends, who I met while studying as an exchange student at the Korea National University of Arts, was tutoring a girl who was applying for art school.
My friend taught her drawing techniques and how to prepare her portfolio. Her student dreamed of studying in New York, specifically at Pratt, my alma mater. She asked me if I could edit her student’s essay. Out of three paragraphs, here is the second: I went through a tough time in my teenage years with anorexia and bulimia. Despite the occasional grammatical error, as I read this essay, I was moved by this girl’s resilience to overcome her sickness in a society that ignored it. I wonder how Korean doctors recognize eating disorders today?
What are your thoughts? *Note: The writer of this essay gave me permission to post this section and generate a discussion about it. -Text by Sarah Shaw @ www.mappingwords.com. The Grand Narrative | Korean Feminism, Sexuality, and Popular Culture. SeoulTee...the Red Dragon Diaries. Often Drops Chopsticks. Top 50 blogs for those interested in teaching abroad. One of the best ways to learn about the everyday experiences of teachers working abroad is to read their personal blogs. You can get a sense of what the work is like, as well as the ups and downs of living in and adapting to a new culture. From these blogs, you can also glean what the working conditions are like in a particular country or school in which you might be interested in teaching. Reading blogs is a great way to research the possibilities and, later, once you’ve made your decisions to work abroad, they are a great resource for learning about your new country and for finding ideas for the classroom.
Regardless of where you live – Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Delaware, Connecticut, Arizona, Alabama – check these out to learn more about studying abroad. Ted’s TEFL Newbie Ted Tucker is a retired EFL teacher and trainer, and he has taught in Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and Saudi Arabia. You Can Teach English The Education Cafe Eat Your Kimchi Chris in South Korea – Travel and Life in South Korea. Chomsongdae - Korea Blog. From Roam With Love | Travel, Teaching, and a Big Splash of Whimsy. Texan in South Korea: Archive. Daniel in Daejeon. Korean Derangement Syndrome. Here's the question: Dear Expat,I am an anonymous blogger who runs a moderately successful Korea-related blog. Earlier this year, I wrote what I considered to be a well-researched article on fan death, demonstrating that it is indeed plausible.
It generated a strong reaction immediately, but what was notable was that even after 10 months, many expats absolutely cannot get their head around the idea that fan death is real, even though I explained the science step-by-step and provided external citations from a climatology expert and the U.S. EPA. At best, those expats cannot believe that my post cannot be anything but satire, and at worst they throw verbal feces at the post, the blog, and my intellectual ability in general. Not even my fabled Korea-Japan Saga generates this level of bile and animus.Pray tell, the Expat -- What is it about these expats that makes them behave like birthers screeching even in the face of Barack Obama's birth certificate? Why do they hate fan death so much? Alien's Day Out. Coffee Helps.