never having to get up to an alarm.
Yeah, you've heard it before. But I'll be damned if emergency should be a human being's first experience in each conscious segment of this existence. Hagwon hours rock, even if the 38-ish-hour week is too grueling for some non-Americans.
Scott, I know I've mentioned the video for this recent Dylan song, but I believe you haven't seen it yet. Niiice.
Lates.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Lazy Sunday
I'm currently chilling out at the pad of (I think) 규성, aka Maxwell, aka Mad Max, where I crashed last night. His brother is also here, on a brief visit from Japan. Very cool. Last night I finally got to the Gwangju International Center while it was open, heard a talk on Mongolia, and went out with a group of truly excellent people. After the first bar, where a bunch of us blew 10,000 won each on disgustingly flat Guiness, we got over to this awsome place owned by a German-trained Korean brewmaster.
Max was in Seattle and Boise, and at least he got to be in the latter around the time of that big bowl game upset. I talked with another guy about Nietsche and Dostoyevski and the Christian original sin/redemption concept, and I also learned that silly multilingual puns are well appreciated in this crowd (though not, I hope, the exhausted Seoul=soul). One of the girls is trying to volunteer for the Gwangju film festival coming up in December, and was excited when I brought it up. That should be very nice.
Stay in peace.
Max was in Seattle and Boise, and at least he got to be in the latter around the time of that big bowl game upset. I talked with another guy about Nietsche and Dostoyevski and the Christian original sin/redemption concept, and I also learned that silly multilingual puns are well appreciated in this crowd (though not, I hope, the exhausted Seoul=soul). One of the girls is trying to volunteer for the Gwangju film festival coming up in December, and was excited when I brought it up. That should be very nice.
Stay in peace.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
New letters
So, one of the cool things about walking around the heavily transliterating Korean world is many new sets of letters to blanagram, anagrams-steal, etc. A big burger place here is LOTTERIA*, which has a nice # anagram.
A major street is SANGMURO*, for which I managed to find all four 9s the other night.
Once I get a camera, I'll tell you guys about visiting the 5-18 memorial park, museum, etc, dedicated to the victims of the "Gwangju Massacre". For now, suffice it to say that CHOLLA: riots.
Peace out, scrabblers and muggles.
A major street is SANGMURO*, for which I managed to find all four 9s the other night.
Once I get a camera, I'll tell you guys about visiting the 5-18 memorial park, museum, etc, dedicated to the victims of the "Gwangju Massacre". For now, suffice it to say that CHOLLA: riots.
Peace out, scrabblers and muggles.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Begging your pardons, sirs...
Hi guys. 감사합니다, 제선. Arthur (bad name for hangulization): 생활이 즐겁어요. 감사합니다!
I've been here in Gwangju just about two weeks now, wired at home for a few days. Things are very comfortable. I'm in Sochon-dong (송정), in the far west of the city, where there's an interesting blend of some major streets with big stores and office buildings, and lots of little family farms (still going strong this late in the year!), produce stands, and little stores in amongst the homes. Most people in this neighborhood don't try to speak English to me, which will be nice in the long run. (In downtown, it's quite the opposite.) I keep building my vocabulary, and can ask for things pretty well at the store, but I usually get back fast speech and pointing that mostly loses me.
Teaching is going pretty smoothly. I like the kids here a lot. I also have a private tutorial in the evenings with a kid who's applying to a big private high school in Seoul. We're practicing conversation about political and social issues; I've had him following Pakistan for several days.
Hey, I'm gonna take off for downtown now, but I'll have time to write later. (Not three weeks later!)
I've been here in Gwangju just about two weeks now, wired at home for a few days. Things are very comfortable. I'm in Sochon-dong (송정), in the far west of the city, where there's an interesting blend of some major streets with big stores and office buildings, and lots of little family farms (still going strong this late in the year!), produce stands, and little stores in amongst the homes. Most people in this neighborhood don't try to speak English to me, which will be nice in the long run. (In downtown, it's quite the opposite.) I keep building my vocabulary, and can ask for things pretty well at the store, but I usually get back fast speech and pointing that mostly loses me.
Teaching is going pretty smoothly. I like the kids here a lot. I also have a private tutorial in the evenings with a kid who's applying to a big private high school in Seoul. We're practicing conversation about political and social issues; I've had him following Pakistan for several days.
Hey, I'm gonna take off for downtown now, but I'll have time to write later. (Not three weeks later!)
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