Posted in Philly, includes pictures on 7 August 2007 | 3 Comments »
and his name is Cat.
We bathed off his usual sheen of motoroil last night. I can’t lie, when he curls up on me feet and hides from the rain under my groucho pant legs, I want to bring him inside forever. However, in the process of bathing him, a rash broke out on [...]
Posted in includes pictures on 16 July 2007 | 2 Comments »
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do on 30 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sarah and I are admiring the Iraqi defense and Korea’s annoying inability, once they’ve got the ball in the box, to come anywhere near an actual goal. At one point we become so frustrated that we start rooting for Iraq because dammit, this is ridiculous. Someone score! Problem is, every time Iraq [...]
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do on 17 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hiked South Korea’s tallest mountain (1,950km/6,938ft). In the rain. In my Chackos and without a raincoat. I maintain that on a drier day, say merely drizzling, or a shorter hike, say six hours round trip, I would have been fine. But conditions being what they were, I have 11 blisters –I [...]
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do on 6 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hiked up Sanbangsan (stock photo):
The first oreum / mountain in Korea I’ve gone up that had no staircases built into it anywhere. Just a nice slippery slope of mud and dead leaves on which I slipped many times. Some blooming honeysuckle and thistles. We were told it’s 395 meters high.
Me, Jenny, and [...]
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do, teaching on 30 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Some choice frames from the comics the kids did as part of a lesson on compliments in which characters from some popular manga battle over who is smarter/prettier/stronger/etc.
(“I have lip just like cherry” / “Hmm… In my opinion, your lip looks like sausage”) And in the frame below it says “You should go to [...]
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do on 26 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
They gave out a lot of these little paper lotus flowers. Kids and parents went crazy to get them. This little girl had three by the end:
This woman saw me do it, I think, but may not have realized why I would be taking her picture. The shirt says something about “Fucking [...]
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do on 29 April 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It was the perfect day to chill cans of beer at the edge of the surf and lounge on the beach with tuna salad, cheese, and crackers. And a red wine called Happy Days. It was an afternoon so perfect that it deserves a second go. Though it seems degenerate to leave [...]
Posted in at home while I'm away, includes pictures on 24 April 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Little bunny in the big city!
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do, the gyomushil on 30 March 2007 | 3 Comments »
맛있다!
Why do I look so bizarre in this picture while they all look good? Must be because I don’t spend hundreds of dollars on cosmetics. PS, they are dressed up for a PTA kind of meeting this afternoon, so I usually look less unprofessional by comparison.
My students, they are so generous. I like the notes [...]
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do on 4 March 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The puffs and whistles of Roman candles fill the air. The onstage screen plays a video of neanderthals discovering fire accompanied by the musical overture from the Pirates of the Carribbean. Then, like the outraged villagers of an archetypal small town, with a mind to immolate witches, monsters, or racial minorities, dozens of [...]
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea on 5 February 2007 | 1 Comment »
A beautiful pig. (Jeju-do)
Steven and Bryan (Haeinsa, outside Daegu)
A museum display of an epic battle between fearless Koreans and Japanese invaders (Ulsan)
Me at the memorial to the matyrs depicted in the above museum display. (Ulsan)
My foot and a dinosaur footprint (Ulsan)
And –the birds! Oh, the birds! (Busan)
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do on 19 December 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I want a puppy.
Little Dog! And he is slow! Wonderfully slow and catch-able.
But the former Little Dog, now Yellow Dog, does not want a rival.
I am not sure they will be friends. The harbor:
There is something about that sky. I feel like I am on an island when I look at it–it [...]
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea on 9 October 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Ghana, includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea on 8 October 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Just spent the Chuseok holiday in Seoul. Many things to say on this subject, but at the moment, permit me a digression. I got pictures in my inbox while I was away of the library in Jukwa. Cyprus still sends us progress reports. And Ghana is playing South Korea right now, [...]
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do on 13 September 2006 | Leave a Comment »
So I go by this on my walk home every day. Finally I stopped to investigate. It’s in front of some kind of municipal building with a banner declaring ‘A New Challenge Jeju Self-Governing Province’ or something like. In July, Jeju and Seoul decided to turn the island into an “international free [...]
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea on 7 September 2006 | Leave a Comment »
My coteacher wanted to know about how much English I speak with my host sister, our student. But this is how we communicate when we watch televsion:
And for whatever reason, when Napoleaon Dynamite came on, she started saying “Chucky, Chucky.”
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do on 7 September 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Hallasan, as seen from my backyard.
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do on 6 September 2006 | Leave a Comment »
As per Jacquelyn’s (or, as it is in my phone since Korean keypads lack the letter ‘q’–”Jacuelyn”) wishes expressed during our international phone call this afternoon (or night depending on your time zone) I have updated my photos.
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do, orientation on 30 August 2006 | Leave a Comment »
To celebrate the occasion of getting the internet to work on my laptop here is a long overdue sampling of pictures:
Me blessing everyone with my heftiness at the end of Kangkang Suwollae.
The entire 2006 ETA crew.
Authentic wire fence available at the Demiliterized Zone gift shop.
The closest South Koreans can get to the North.
My host family [...]
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged orientation on 30 July 2006 | 2 Comments »
When we go anywhere, it is an exercise in specatcle; as though we do the things we do only to photograph them.
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged orientation on 27 July 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I just wanted to single out this photo from Songnisan because I love it. I love the Buddhist swastikas leading across the bridge to a church.
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged orientation on 27 July 2006 | Leave a Comment »
So obviously we have here East Asia at night, China, Japan, and South Korea being easily recognizable. You can even see my little island alit down there but between the 38th parallel and the Duman river there is only the smudge of Pyongyang. I am going to have to buy a lot of [...]
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged orientation on 26 July 2006 | 1 Comment »
My current orientation in Korea:
At the end of August I will move to Jeju-do where I will teach until next July. My orientation on Jeju-do:
It’s a volcanic island with lava caves, bonsai trees, cactus, green tea, matriarchal divers, statues of little old men, and eager Korean middle school girls who aren’t burned out yet [...]
Posted in includes pictures, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged orientation on 16 July 2006 | Leave a Comment »
So that’s our dirty laundry by candlelight. Don’t worry, the building was so saturated by monsoon rain that it probably wouldn’t burn. It rains a lot here. A lot.
That’s us drinking outside the Family mart in the rain. The next evening, I went to a DVD bang instead of the public [...]
Posted in going away, includes pictures on 4 July 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in includes pictures on 20 June 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I don't care if it rains or freezes, 'long as I got my brass Ganesh riding below the dashboard of my car. Through my trials and tribulations and my travels through the nations, with my brass Ganesh I'll go far.
Posted in includes pictures, the usual talk on 18 June 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It is becoming a family tradition that one of my relatives will comment on the people who are from the country that I am going to. Let us not forget my uncle's post-Christmas question: "What will you do when you get back from India, Sara? Open a 7Eleven?"
My grandmother's sister asked where I [...]
Posted in includes pictures, the usual talk, 대한민국 South Korea on 9 June 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This is how California sometimes made me feel.
Probably because they have dumpsters for this.
But Lake Arrowhead was nice.
Dick Clark owns a house up there. John Candy once did. The cousin's boyfriend's dad gave a boat tour of the million dollar waterfront properties; he'd installed a lot of rich people's alarm systems.
I got my [...]
Posted in includes pictures on 26 May 2006 | 1 Comment »
Posted in includes pictures, ভারত India on 24 May 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The driver who took us to Sharup's village burned incense on the dash, wiping away the ash as we prepared to depart. The weather is inclement; bullock carts and rickshaws appear no more than ten seconds from our overtaking them and the turns in the road even less, which has been a source of [...]
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