The triumph of Korean fashion: the teddy bear sweater
they call me radish
Ajeossis Always Surprise You
- Cab Driver: You speak strange. Where are you from?
- Me: America
- Cab Driver: Where in America?
- Me: Chicago
- Cab Driver: OBAMA! HEY! I LOVE! (in english)
EMPLOYMENT!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!
2011: Dinah can both pay her bills and sleep at night. Also, the year before 2012. I wish you could see the dance of joy I’m doing around my mom’s kitchen as my ulcer begins to shrink.
It’s your year, Rabbit!
Hello Rabbit
I am so glad the Year of the Tiger has passed. It proved to be just as harried and contentious as it’s known to be. Year of the Rabbit (I think the element is metal, too. So no fire rabbit this year.) is supposed to be bit more placid, among other things.
I could use more placid.
Fuck It
I no longer feel guilty or ashamed that I don’t like living in Seoul. It’s been more than 6 months. I don’t like it here. There.
This Is What Happens When I Edit for My Sister
- Sister: You're so proud of your sentence building. It's kind of disgusting.
- Me: It's all I have.
- Sister: You have nice teeth now.
Kimchee and Spam
This unholy combination is tasting so necessary right now. It’s going to be a long winter.
Garden path sentence - Wikipedia
Nina, these are the sorts of Wikipedia wormholes I get lost in when you try to explain wacky concepts like “indirect objects” to me. I want that hour of my life back, and I want to spend it eating donuts with you.
If I showed this to my students, they would cry.
My Braces Poem Was a One-Time Performance
Getting my braces off next weekend!
“ It bears mentioning that nations with high-performing school systems—whether Korea, Singapore, Finland, or Japan—have succeeded not by privatizing their schools or closing those with low scores, but by strengthening the education profession. They also have less poverty than we do. Fewer than 5 percent of children in Finland live in poverty, as compared to 20 percent in the United States. Those who insist that poverty doesn’t matter, that only teachers matter, prefer to ignore such contrasts.
The Myth of Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch (via silas216, robot-heart-politics)
BAM.
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Diane Ravitch: maybe not too little too late? Just say it louder, lady.
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A slight off-topic bone to pick:
Ehhhh, I wouldn’t put Korea’s education system as an example for a system that invests in teachers/education profession. With some exceptions of international programs and elite art schools, most Koreans have little to no faith in the public system, which is why parents enroll their children in several private after-school academies and hire private tutors to help with school work and school exams. Some even send their children to live in the United States, Australia, and the UK for a couple of years. And with the current failing ban on corporal punishment in schools, most students view their teachers as incompetent and overly emotional.
Not that the private academies are great either. But I’m always baffled when I see mentions of praise for Korea’s education system. It depends heavily on forms of private education and has its own set of over-extended, albeit largely uncontested, problems.
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