February 2012
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floorplan asked: so I wanted to teach in korea and applied ages ago. I ended up chickening out at the last minute so I'm planning on reading your tumblr/stalking your korean experience LOL. I kind of regret not doing it and I'm starting to think about it again. anyway, you should totally watch sherlock. it's online somewhere. let me know if you want a link!! :D and good luck in koreaaaa. -sincerely...
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I move to South Korea in about 2 weeks and I stil...
Why do I have to wait so long because I’m in the States! </fangirl_moment>
January 2012
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I really...really don't want to go to work today.
December 2011
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Today is one of those days where all I want to do...
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November 2011
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It looks like I'm going to South Korea in...
For the past few months I’ve been sending documents back and forth, here and there, to different people. I’ve gotten farther than I did last time. I’m excited!!!! I’m going to start again working on my travel blog. I’m debating on whether I should make one on Blogger or on Wordpress. Decisions, decisions.
October 2011
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Tooth extractions are no joke! Oh, the pain! The...
On top of that, my wisdom tooth that was extracted had 3 roots. My dentist had not seen that before. I wish I had taken a picture.
August 2011
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Random Musings
It’s soooo hot! My face feels like it’s going to melt away.
Training ends this week, and I start work either at the end of this week or next week. I wish I could talk about it, but do to a confidentiality clause, I can’t say anything really about where I work :(
I’ve decided to buy a 32 GB iPod Touch sometime in the near future. I love my Nano, but I think...
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Being sick is soooo not cool...especially when you...
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Thundercats ep. 4
stuphunuu:
I don’t have a laundry list of comments about this episode. Just two things:
1. That… was really, really good. It had its moments of what the hell and some of the characters AGAIN had a 180 in personality (Tygra’s back to his snarky bastard self, Lion-O brooded half the time, etc.) but that was a pretty powerful story right there. If I was an less of a man, I would have cried. But I...
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July 2011
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Hey! It’s been a minute since I’ve been on here posting. I’m working hard to finish up my TEFL course. I’m almost done, but I still have 5 lesson plans to do and a couple of video practices. Basically that’s been taking up my time (and listening to The Veldt. Alan (a.k.a Free Haze, I could never thank you enough for the album!) I also went on job interviews. I’m...
freehaze asked: How's the Veldt album, btw?
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Behind the Music...
I’m thinking about buying a turntable (if I get a job so I can have the cash to buy one). I miss listening to vinyl. It would be nice to kick back in my room and enjoy the sound better since vinyl has better sound quality. Also, there is just something about having a physical recording that I like. MP3 players are convenient, but I miss looking at cover art, actually having lyrics on the...
June 2011
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The Veldt - Love at First Hate (1998)
freehaze:
This album is literally impossible to find on the internet, so I did the world a favor and uploaded the entire album to mediafire for everyone’s enjoyment.
Thank you so much for uploading this!
I have a job interview next week. If things still don’t work out this time around with EPIK then (if I get this job) it will be something to pay the bills until the next go around with EPIK. It’ll also give me time to consider taking the GRE (and have the money to take it if I choose to).
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EPIK Woes
I have yet to receive my FBI background check. It’s coming down to the wire and if I don’t get anything by this week, going to S. Korea this round probably isn’t going to happen. The good things is that I do plan on re-applying to EPIK for the Spring 2012 term. According to my recruiting agent, I would have to reapply for an FBI check because this check would be too old. However,...
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Maxence Cyrin - Where is My Mind (The Pixies Piano...
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Why do people think I'm shy?
I never quite understood why people think I’m shy or anti-social. It’s always been this way. I remember one of my uncles was always trying to get me to hang out with my cousin when I was younger in order to get out an socialize more (we had nothing in common nor did we hang around similar groups of people, so I was never interested).
I’m not shy. I’m introverted. I...
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TEFL course rant and other musings
O.K. I am so damn tired of this checkpoint (exam). It has seriously took me four days to do. Apparently, I’m not the only one who has had trouble with it because I have been finding a number of forums where people were asking others to help them out on the questions. I am not about to redo this checkpoint over again, so I’m trying to give thorough and correct answers, but I’m...
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After the interview
I just finished having my interview. I think it went well, and the questions asked were exactly the ones I figured they would ask me. I was pretty prepared, but I feel like a rambled a bit. I just tired to be myself, to not speak too quickly, and to show how enthusiastic I was about the prospects of teaching in South Korea. However, I realized in retrospect that I didn’t actually talk much...
May 2011
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Interview with EPIK Today
So my interview with EPIK is this evening! I’m excited and slightly nervous. I think the main reason that I feel a little uneasy is because I don’t really know what they are going to ask me. I did look up some things about what they might ask and I reviewed those questions, but what they ask really depends on the interviewer. Some interviews were longer than others and the questions...
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I got a interview!
So the past few weeks I’ve been working my tail off at gathering documents, and working on my EPIK application. Last week was hell because I found out that Pages changed the format of my EPIK application and so I had to go about town looking for a computer with Microsoft Word so that I can fill out the application in its proper format. I found out that the libraries in my city suck in that...
It has been a long time since I got to check out Tumblr. My mom’s had surgery and she hasn’t been feeling that great so I’ve been tending to her the past five days. I’ve also have been working on amending things on my EPIK application, which I will talk about later. It’s just been a really busy and stressful time.
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“Was this paint brush on the table when you came in here? NO! Then it should NOT...”
– ~ Dari (a.k.a applesandmustard)
Gotta love “Drill Sergent/Substitute Teacher Dari” serving it up to the middle schoolers. I only observed a middle school class for one day during Teaching Academy and was done with the idea of ever wanting to teach at a middle school.
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My city's police department records unit sucks...
All I want to know is their ORI number so that I can write it on my fingerprint card to send it to the FBI, and no one answered the phone each time I called and no one called me back, so now I’ve got to go back down there in order to get the damn number which they should have given to me when I first went down there. Grrrr!
guangjoe asked: Looking forward to your posts from Korea! Good luck with the rest of your TEFL! Joe
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I picked my cities for the EPIK form. So far I chose as follows:
Daejeon Daegu Incheon Gwangju Busan
I’ll probably change things up before I send it off, but so far I feel content. I didn’t want to live in Seoul, but I wanted to be in an urban environment. I considered the cost of living, proximity to Seoul and Busan, recreation, and transportation. I did a lot of research, but...
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아싸! I finished my 20 hour grammar section of my...
I have my certificate too. So now I’m going to focus on getting the main course done, work on the video classroom practice lessons, and finally go back to the special courses and do the final assignments on those. It’s a lot to do, but I’m determined to get everything done before the 20th of May.
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How Come You Don't Call Me?
I had to channel Prince for this rant here. Anyways…
Earlier this week I decided to e-mail my grandfather who promised to call me Jan 5 2010, but never did. He told me in a response that he just didn’t call because he was having relationship issues with my grandmother and distanced himself from a lot of people. Here’s my thing, our relationship is already fragile because...
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