• Archive for April, 2004

    Baewugoshipneun geotdeuleun (Things I Want To Learn)

    by  • April 1, 2004 • WTF

    The Friday Five for this week comes from the fingertips of the illustrious Adrienne: If time and money were infinite, what are the five things you’d love to learn how to do? Which of these do you think you’ll do anyway, no matter what the economic and temporal restraints are? It’s a tough question,...

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    One Hour Doesn’t Seem Enough

    by  • April 1, 2004 • teaching in Korea

    Not for my LEC class. Ah well, the exercises do at least result in some interesting discussion. But I am working on ways to streamline the exercises to make sure students spend more time practicing useful structures and less time constructing way too complicated structures wrong in an attempt to “speak really well”. Ah,...

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    Two April Fool’s SMS Conversations

    by  • April 1, 2004 • PERSONAL

    Some of this is translated from Korean. My sorta-ex-girlfriend messaged me first: “Gord! Guess what! I’m going abroad in one month!” “Really?” “Yeah. I will go to Australia.” “How long?” “Maybe one year, or two. And Gord… I miss you. T.T” [T.T is a sad face—tears streaming down from eyes on either side of...

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    Life This Week

    by  • April 1, 2004 • PERSONAL

    Life’s been so busy lately, and I forgot my computer plug at the office last night so I actually got something approaching a decent amount of sleep. But I didn’t get to post. So last night, I taught until 6:30pm. Then, I killed time at the office waiting to meet a student who wanted...

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