I've Had This Girl's Generation Song Stuck in My Head All Day and Now You Can Too!

More Fabulous Writing

I have one student who writes the funniest things for his writing assigments. Here are a few examples:

My 3rd Diary
My favorite class is Nicole class among all subjects. Put your hands up! Oh. Sorry. I say "Ni," you say "cole." Do you know Chinese? Ni zia you zi cou run? I love badminton and Nicole, Let's play badminton later. I am a good player. Bye.

Dear Nicole~
Hi nicole. I respect you Nicole. I respected you Nicole, And I will respect you Nicole? Nicole class is always funny and educational. So I love this class. I will study hard all the times.

I read a lot of these each week, making correction after correction, but I am never let down by their content.

Not Sure Where This T-Shirt Came From, But I Bought it in Gwangju for 4 Bucks

A Lesson on Trans Fats

So during dinner with my host family, the topic of conversation managed to go to the words "transgender" and "translation." My older host sister was confusing the two. I explained how that it was natural, as the two words both contain the prefix "trans-," meaning to go across. I mentioned other words like: transfer and transportation. Then my host mom blurted out, "trans fats!" And I was like, yes! But to explain that I had to show them what a double bond was, so I used Yu-Gyeong's and my chopstick/spoon sets to demonstrated the difference between cis and trans bonds. Below you'll see a spoon trans bond below the ddok-bokki (떡볶이) and dumplings (만두). ㅋㅋㅋ

Thank you!!! 고마워요!!!!

Thank you to those who have donated money to KKOOM!!! It is greatly appreciated!!!!!!^^

I Don't Ask For Money Often, Soooooo.....

So since the fall, I have been volunteering at this fantastic orphanage in Gumi. Being adopted I feel that it's only natural to give back a little. A past ETA from several years ago really built a strong relationship between this orphanage and the ETA program. She also started an organization called KKOOM, which stands for Korean Kids & Orphanage Outreach Program (and in Korean the acronym means "dream").

And currently KKOOM is being offered a trial position on the Global Giving website, which highlights smaller charitable organizations. However, they must raise a total of $4,000 before April 26 in order to keep the spot. The money would be going specifically towards Korean orphans' English education. Remaining on Global Giving's website would greatly help publicize KKOOM's mission, and so far they have done a lot for the orphanage that I work at every week.

I've already donated, so if there are any friends out there who are willing to donate a minimum of $10, it would be greatly appreciated. It's super easy, you just have to follow this link. Thanks!!!!

This Has Nothing to Do With Korea and Everything to Do With Japan and the Tate Modern

So I just stumbled upon this video while searching for art stuff. Apparently Takashi Murakami made this video with Kirsten Dunst for the Tate Modern's show, "Pop Life: Art in a Material World," which showed Oct 1 through Jan 17, 2010. It hurt my head so much, that I had to post it... enjoy!