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“Oh yeah. You’re so funny without a penis.”
– DIK live. Alright, Korea. You cock-blocked us into the new year. Time for the magic to happen. (Sorry mom. I’m drunk on soju.)
INP: “I don’t want to meet up with those guys. They sound crap.”
DIK: “What do you mean they sound crap? They’re not crap!”
INP: “You made them sound crap.”
DIK: “I did not! They’re not crap!”
INP: “Well you made the one available one sound crap.”
DIK: “He’s not crap! He’s just not my type....
Just another expat girl in Taiwan: imnopicasso... →
alectointhunderland:
imnopicasso replied to your post: Everyone’s so excited
I’ve got a 9 month curse. And all the rest of this as well. For now, I’m choosing to believe the Mom Mantra and that I just haven’t met the right person. I hope they’re right. And sometimes I just don’t care.
It’s nice to know I’m not…
People look at me like I’m a freak when I say that I really...
“Every time you say a prayer and God don’t answer, it’s because he...”
– 50 Cent
gayforbestresults replied to your video: Gratuitous shots of foreign women dancing FTW. If…
lesbian clubs, especially labrys, play mostly k-pop, but that’s of no use to y’all so…yeah.
Just another thing the gay community is AHEAD OF EVERYBODY ELSE on. Realizing that Kpop and Britney Spears = same, same. Mr. Snooty DJ Dude, take note.
“It’s called a pulling outfit.”
– Gok Wan, answering a smartass comment about what he’s wearing from Alan Carr.
7:32 am....
…. is the absolute latest I can force myself to stay in bed on weekdays. My life is a tragedy.
]]>hotyellowfellows replied to your photo: Firsties cuddle time. ㅋㅋㅋ
It’s like a puppy pile.
I know! Although I’ve given up on using that word with them ever. No matter how much you explain that it’s different in English….
They were mad that I took that photo. Ahhh Teeeacheeeeer! But it was too cute not to capture. And besides, they take sneaky snaps of me with their phones...
Skipping out on the teachers’ trip (something I have never done), because literally all of the good teachers are as well, and because…. look out the window. Do you feel like going for a hike and a walk around a lake today? I know that I certainly do not. I also do not feel like sitting in horrendous snowy traffic on New Year’s Eve until late in the evening.
One of two things...
Third grader “low kicked” a (male) temporary teacher today. Haha. I thought he was cute as well, until I found out the students totally clowned him. That shouldn’t have anything to do with anything. But it does.
[The Kid]: its cos he’s nice. [The Kid]: and you like weirdos and bastards!
Summing up the obvious. Thank you.
Getting a ride with the VP like a boss. Too afraid to speak Korean for fear of something slipping out impolitely. Awwwwkward. But it warms my frozen little heart that the man who’s infamous for being a gruff old bastard will pull over for me and then speed past half a dozen other teachers without a second glance. I’m sure him coming across me at the exact moment I was navigating a...
“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe,...”
– Marilyn Monroe. Speaking of.
There is a hugely obvious gay high school student in my office right now. Like, Jo Kwon obvious. I walked into the office and within thirty seconds of meeting me, he was performing Britney Spears and doing little Marilyn Monroe sexy gestures in my general direction. Basically behaving exactly like the queens on the hill. There should be a secret handshake for occasions like this one.
I know why...
NO. NO TO WALKING IN THE SNOW. NOOOOOOO.
My students think my face when I come into the building after walking up the side of that fucking mountain as a Texan-on-ice is fucking hilarious. They won’t think it’s so fucking funny when I start to go down one of these days and grab as many of them within the proximity as I can and take them down with me.
Oh man. Life is a little dramatic at the moment. So much so that the co who likes to follow my life like a Kdrama started in with her usual questions today and I just clammed up. Because it’s awkward. All of it is awkward. But some of it is really good. Some of it would be better if I were a more balanced person. I should be…. I dunno…. happier. But all I can think about is...
Dating in Korea: Anticlimactic. →
datinginkorea:
I apologize. It turns out that we were meant to have a lovely evening free of any boy drama. No Hot Guy. No J. No Adjusshi.
J ended up texting me at 6am the next morning. I think he called it an early night because he had to get up to work. Adjusshi had a cold and couldn’t be bothered crashing my…
Yeah I realized as the words were coming out of my mouth. So I just fucking...
I really wish I could type about what happened today, but it doesn’t feel right. It was literally the most perfect day anyone could ever ask for, and all I feel is guilt. You want to argue with what they say when they talk about girls and nice guys, but then something like this happens. He deserves someone who goes all to pieces inside when he behaves so perfectly, and I might hate myself...
“Did you wake up lying naked on a pool table with your bare arse in the air?”
– Smalltown, asking about my Christmas morning. My friends are the classiest friends. And the answer is no, for the record.
Dear whoever decided to cover a twist-top wine bottle with paper,
Fuck you. Ass.
xo
INP
Uh. Christmas has been pretty fucking amazing. Just… yeah. I might write more later. I might not. But it was good. Mixing soju and hot chocolate is not, however. For your information.
And tomorrow… well, I don’t know what’s going to happen. Hoping for the best, preparing for the...
Big chance three things will happen tomorrow. Or,...
datinginkorea:
1. Hot Guy will come to my Christmas dinner.
2. J will come to my Christmas dinner.
3. Adjusshi will decide to crash my Christmas dinner.
Yes. These things are all possible. #1 and #2 most likely, but I have a sinking fear about #3. Ahhhh, Hot Guy meeting all my friends, J meeting all my friends. I cannot handle the pressure. Why won’t my apartment clean itself?
I’m on...
Anonymous asked: paying bills, having fun with ahjummahs etc seems like your Korean is pretty good. other then trial and error how did you get it up to snuff?
Anonymous asked: paying bills, having fun with ahjummahs etc seems like your Korean is pretty good. other then trial and error how did you get it up to snuff?
Longest hour of my life right now. Why am I sitting here, cold, doing nothing…. when I need to stop by the bank to pay a bill stop in the shops to pick up a few things get home shower clean a bit put away the laundry pack a bag possibly eat something charge my phone battery feed my rabbit take out the recycling put on something respectable and get to the bus to get to motherfucking the other...
Fur-lined leather gloves from Co for Christmas. How utterly lovely. She knows my hands are always, always purple with cold during the winter, no matter what I do (I’ve even taken to almost continously sipping green tea in the office, just to have the warm cup in my hands). Also, class 1-11, my ‘animal class’ this semester, never fail to surprise — first time in three...
On my walk to work this morning, my skirt somehow managed to turn completely around, backwards. I may or may not have flashed the haksaengbu teachers (including the hot PE teacher) when I was walking up the hill to the school gate. I don’t really understand how that is even possible, but it might be time to go shopping for new work clothes.
therealericchoi replied to your post: So the thing is, now that I have an oven, I might…
where do you live?
Dirty Incheon, baby. With the gangsters and the chicken hofs. About thirty minutes by train from Bupyeong.
So the thing is, now that I have an oven, I might have to stop following all of these baking blogs. Because all I think about all day is, “I’m going to make that! And that! And that! And that!” And I have no one besides my coworkers and Smalltown within baked-goods-carrying distance. And baking supplies in Korea are expensive. But luckily, the ajummas have offered to show me...
Two days ‘til Christmas! Five until winter vacation! They just don’t give a fuck anymore, bless ‘em. Now they’re standing on the dirt pit in the cold, minus coats and jackets singing the school song for meandering through the school gate whenever the fancy happens to strike them.
Oop. National anthem. And they’ve apparently been told to take the volume up a few...
Also:
Older Korean women freak me out sometimes. Boys, close your eyes and whine and skip over this next part if you’re squeamish about women having bodies and stuff.
Two different coworkers on two different occasions and the mothers’ class today all noticed that my face was a little pale. I didn’t notice. I can’t see anything different about it. But on all three occasions, they...
I’VE GOT AN OVEN! ME AND ALL OF MY FRIENDS AND COWORKERS ARE GOING TO GET SO FAT!!! It also cost 15,000 won because my ajumma companions are apparently fucking boss at making recycle shop ajeosshi feel six inches tall. One of their main points of emphasis while arguing with him was that I was an English teacher. I don’t know how that’s relevant to the purchase price of a used...
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How many years can you spend in Korea until you...
Yeah I’ve noticed this as well, but you never know. What I’ve noticed more than anything is the boomerang effect. People try to leave, and then just end up coming straight back after a few months. Re-acclimating can’t be easy. I don’t think I’m really up to the task. I think people either come, do their one year, and get the fuck out of Dodge without ever looking...
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What's a HOF? I've noticed in a couple of blogs -...
Hof is a Kong… a Korman word? Haha. Uh. It’s pronounced “ho-peuh” with a hard ‘o’ in Korean, and it’s basically a small, dark little bar usually with a lot of wood furniture and booths where you can sit and eat anju (drinking food) and drink cheap beer or soju. A little different from Western style bars, in that they’re not for socializing with...
Anonymous asked: Ouch. I guess I did come off as vain. Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt and answering me seriously, the answer about how appearance is dealt with on a on frank manner and shouldn't be taken as seriously is interesting. I tried to make the question more contextualized instead of asking a sweeping generalization question because it's something I admire in your writing. Now,...
Anonymous asked: Ouch. I guess I did come off as vain. Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt and answering me seriously, the answer about how appearance is dealt with on a on frank manner and shouldn't be taken as seriously is interesting. I tried to make the question more contextualized instead of asking a sweeping generalization question because it's something I admire in your writing. Now,...
therealericchoi replied to your post: I studied aboard in Seoul last year and love your blog for helping me digest the very wonderful experience I had despite being rather clueless. Do you have a blog post on appearance in Korea? Koreans—many times elders— often would commented on how beautiful I was. I suppose the face matters more in Korea than in the USA? I assume so because I also happen to be...
Anonymous asked: I studied aboard in Seoul last year and love your blog for helping me digest the very wonderful experience I had despite being rather clueless. Do you have a blog post on appearance in Korea? Koreans--many times elders-- often would commented on how beautiful I was. I suppose the face matters more in Korea than in the USA? I assume so because I also happen to be a covering Muslim [headscarf and...
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I'm a Vietnamese-American female and I"m planning...
Being short will not stop you from having the students’ respect. My most terrifying co-teacher is under five feet and she reigns with an iron fist. Even if she’s not in the classroom, the students will be perfect angels for fear that she might somehow sense that they misbehaved. These are students who are, on average, a foot or so taller than she is. As long as you learn how to project...
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Did you vote in the most recent election?
No I did not.
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Did you ever go the host bar?
No I did not.
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Is there a candy you miss in Korea? Or one you...
I don’t really like candy. If it’s there, I’ll probably eat it. But I don’t really pursue it. I hear people miss Reese’s a lot, though.
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