Archive | July, 2005

First day of camp

25. July 2005

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I finished my first day at camp an hour and a half ago.  Surprisingly, I’m not as tired as I thought I’d be.  When I met my class for the first time, I was surprised to find out that all of my 12 students were boys.  Except for the one kid that doesn’t pay attention [...]

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Camp training

24. July 2005

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Today was the second day of training at the 4 week English camp Raswan and I are working at.  It’s held at Gyeongsang National University, in the southern city of Jinju.  This is the 10th time the camp is being held, and has a pretty good reputation.  The 420 slots for students were filled in [...]

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Seoul with Philippe

23. July 2005

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Three days ago, Ras and I went to Seoul and stayed at Philippe’s for 2 days before we headed down to our camp in Jinju.  Philippe is the same as usual, and he says he doesn’t drink as much anymore.  The first night we were there, he was drinking, which resulted in him trying to [...]

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Saam gae taang

20. July 2005

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Before leaving for Seoul today, Ras and I had lunch with some of his former students.  Koreans say it’s good to eat Korean chicken soup when it’s hot because it cools you down.  Go figure.  The best thing from the meal was the ??? (spiced pickled radish). Students from Ras’ former conversation class.  The woman second [...]

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Pictures, at last

20. July 2005

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Let me explain my lack of blogging for the last two weeks.  After my last posting, I went to Eugene and went to one of the largest hippy fests in the Northwest - more on that later.  Then Ras and I took a 27 hour train ride from Eugene, Oregon to Los Angeles and stayed [...]

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