Every once in a while, fortune smiles upon the Farrand household in Seoul. Two relatives of Heather's and technically of mine now (although I haven't gotten quite used to the fact), sent us a Nintendo Wii in the mail. Heather had mentioned off-hand to them that 'the only thing our place is lacking is a Wii.' Two weeks later, one arrives at our doorstep.
If I become rich one day, remind me to send Wii's to everyone I know.
Author's note: A version of this article appears in the March 2010 issue of the Groove. Pictures in this post are my own, and are different from those in the Groove.
Yesterday, there was an article in the Seoul Times called "South Korean Teachers Reach for the SKY" and it was about why South Korean teachers are just so much better than anywhere else.
Is it just me, or do the Oscars feel completely irrelevent this year? OK, so I haven’t seen a large portion of the nominees, and will concede that I’m more or less talking out of my ass, but the reason I haven’t seen films like “The Blind Side,” “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire” or “Invictus” isn’t because they haven’t yet been released in South Korea. I simply don’t care to. By upping the number of “Best Picture” nominess, the idea was to include a broader range of movies, but it seems to me that the Academy has just put its sought-after spotlight on more of the same drivel.
I know that it's starting to get repetitive but I can't resist: Kang Shin Who is the worst reporter in the history of journalism. Today's article had absolutely no point. "US Admissions System Saps Korean Students"...it was supposed to perhaps make that point but the article only interviewed one student. One. Uno. Hana. Un. ONE. It wasn't scripted as a 'let's follow the application process autobiography' sort of thing--based on the title, it was supposed to be following an overarching trend.
It’s a long way off yet (April 22), but tomorrow I will be planning my semester so its time to plan how and what I am doing for Earthday.
At the blog, Teach Paperless (author anonymous), I found some information on the subject. That blogger uses student blogs as notebooks and, well, enough other things to convince him/her to set up a blog.
I recently started using the computer at my office, which has a regular-width screen (as opposed to my laptop's wide screen). While updating my blog, I noticed that the page has been formatted to fit properly on a widescreen computer, and not to resize it's self on a regularly-sized screen.
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