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What, pray tell, is an Autobahn VAG?

Thu, 05/02/2013 - 16:30 — fishstick


What, pray tell, is an Autobahn VAG?

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While in Daejeon, I saw that a lot of banks had statues in front...

Thu, 04/18/2013 - 21:30 — fishstick






While in Daejeon, I saw that a lot of banks had statues in front of naked families. I have no idea what this symbolizes, and I’ve never seen it anywhere else in Korea, but it’s hilarious. Naked families embracing each other or building clouds together… Sure, that’s where I’ll invest my money. Thank you, Daejeon banks. You made my day.

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“Getting There”

Mon, 03/04/2013 - 23:33 — conor_o_reilly

This is a short narrative post I initially set out to write for Groove Magazine‘s “Share Story, Win Trip” writing competition. The call came out for ‘funny’ travel stories where a lesson was learned. The winning pieces would be read out loud dramatically. Frankly, there just aren’t enough of these kind of encouraging writing opportunities in Korea. I could say more but I’ll get distracted.

I started writing mine and about two paragraphs from the end I decided that it wasn’t a travel story. So I stopped writing. I came back about a week later and took another crack at it, tidied it up but left it loosely over the 500 word limit, which kind of left it for any kind of flash litt and too short to be considered anything else. Still it’s a good story. You’ll laugh. I hope. 

Getting There

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10 Reasons North Korea Should Wait to Launch its Rocket.

Tue, 12/04/2012 - 16:17 — kimchibytes

Dear North Korea,

Here are 10 reasons you should postpone your rocket launch.

10.  It’s too cold outside to watch a rocket launch- It’s cold in Seoul this winter.  I wouldn’t even go outside to meet a naked girl with chicken wings.  It must be freezing for the under-clothed, starving, rural North Koreans.  Not feeding them is sad enough, but providing them with an explosion they won’t enjoy or watch (too cold outside) is unusually cruel.  You should wait until it gets warmer to launch the rocket.

9. South Korea blocked all the good porn sites- Actually, this is a good reason for you to launch a faulty rocket.  If we can’t look at porn in South Korea, explosions from crappy rockets are the next best thing.

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“Call Me Maybe, Teacher?” -Phone Teaching with Korean Students-

Wed, 11/07/2012 - 01:50 — devanrosey

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Obvious signs of Vampire infiltration of the South Korean populace

Mon, 08/20/2012 - 22:24 — surprises aplenty

Today, in a grocery store, I finally put the pieces together and felt like a dummy for not seeing it earlier. Korea has a huge number of vampires and they have infiltrated the government to hide the fact.  It’s so obvious!

Was this a documentary?

 

Consider:

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When Animals Get Wheels

Sun, 07/22/2012 - 13:12 — jmslesin
Last weekend, along with finding the Love Bug, I found the weirdest mode of transportation- at the same mall. 

There's this cool below ground mall in Seomyeon set within the apartment complex called 'the Sharp'.
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Saturday morning cartoons*

Sat, 07/21/2012 - 08:42 — ndamiano

Instead of watching saturday morning cartoons, we are entertaining ourselves with some great commercials

Cracks us up every time

Notice the “illegal money” they are actually saying ill ill gu which is 119.. we laugh every time here watch this one on tv.

You too have have beautiful skin like this man

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Morning Chuckle

Wed, 07/18/2012 - 06:59 — ndamiano



Just a little funny for this Wednesday morning.

Adam and I were researching how much food to give Eunee (we can’t really read the back of the Royal Canin Mini Starter Puppy Food, it’s in Korean)

upon finding it sold on a European site (On the actual Royal Canin site it has been edited to be PC and says mother), we read the details and both had a nice immature laugh.

 

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My Eyes are Cracking

Wed, 06/13/2012 - 23:50 — jmslesin
I don't remember exactly when this started in class, but according to my kindergarten students, my eyes are "cracking". 

Now almost daily one or more of them will get really close to my face look into my eyes really hard and proclaim that my eyes are cracking. It's becoming one of their new favorite things.


I will admit I don't help matters, and kind of egg them on by going on to tell the kids that my eyes crack a little more each day and that one day my eyes are going to fall right out.  Then I move my contacts around in my eyes and really freak them out.


  They're not that used to seeing hazel eyes and my eyes do have weird patterns in them, but it's just one of those great things that only a child's mind could think of.
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Because...

Tue, 05/22/2012 - 00:02 — jmslesin
Because it is Monday,  and I feel like this:



 because I am in a fight with my dear friend writer's block, and feel like I'm about this good at hiding from it: 


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Sighns II: the Next Chapter

Tue, 04/24/2012 - 21:12 — jmslesin
I've had more than a few requests for another round of Sighns, so I've been keeping my eyes open for some really awesome ones just for you.

Sighns

Wed, 03/28/2012 - 21:38 — jmslesin
Korea really does have a lot of English signage. Definitely a lot more than I had originally expected.  And a lot of the time it's perfectly fine... and other times it's not. 

Sometimes you come across a sign so wrong that there's nothing more you can do except take a picture and share some giggles with the world. 


Make-up shops in Korea are almost the same...



I feel like this one pops up frequently amongst residents of Busan, but it's too good to not include:
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personalization can be too personal: ESL experiences

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 11:09 — surprises aplenty

In almost every unit of almost every ESL textbook, there is a part where students use the grammar or vocabulary to describe themselves or their experiences.  Even without a textbook, teachers quite properly, try to elicit personal statements from their students.  Usually, this is a good idea.

On his blog, “An A-Z of ELT, Thornbury discusses where these discussions could take you:

In his novel, The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst (1994) recounts how the protagonist, a young Englishman recently arrived in a Belgian town, sets himself up as a private English tutor. One of his pupils suffers from asthma, and our hero idly asks him if he knows how he got it.

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rats and badminton

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 09:37 — surprises aplenty

Happy New Year, Everyone!

My post today isn’t about the New Year, but about two events that occurred this past week.  They have a surprising number of parallels.

First, on Wednesday night I played badminton for the first time in ages.  My friend Tom invited me to play.  I am a terrible badminton player (indeed, this is true for most team sports) but thought a friendly game would be fun.

It turned out I had an edge, a wonderful advantage.  Tom’s shoes just didn’t agree with the gym floor.  For whatever reason, he had almost no traction and I did.  To win a point against him, all I needed to do was to shoot to one side then the other, or anyway to shoot where he was not and he would be unable to get into position.

Sounds simple, right?  It did work a few times despite Tom’s long arms.  There were a few occasions where I did get him to the left side then forced him to run unsuccessfully to the other side chasing (shuttle)cock.

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