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“We Bop Hard”
Shabazz Palaces live. Seeing these guys tonight in lurvely Daegu. Very stoked, even if it’s a Wednesday night and I am old and creaky and no longer get my freak on that much on school-nights.
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Daegu Rock City
Shabazz Palaces live, Daegu, South Korea. It was a good show with a good turnout for sleeply ol’ Daegu. There were some sound problems, but I felt for the sound guy — they were running backing...
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Ups And Downs
It seems like the general ESL market in South Korea has definitely tightened over the past five years, probably with notable public school (Seoul, Incheon, Daejeon) districts tightening the belt. I...
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More like Samgye-lame, AMIRITE?
Wrapping things up here in lovely Daegu with my skeleton shifts of adult conversation students and a small professors’ class. So that means — lots of free lunches and dinners next week before I go...
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Cold Showers Are My Friend
Sorry Daegu, but we’ve decided to refer to your summer heat as “Hitler” and your summer humidity as “cancerAIDS.” Either I’m getting older and crankier or the summers here are getting more brutal....
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Outta Here
Headed home on Friday for three weeks to see my family. As usual, I’ll be visiting the lovely meth-lab enclave of Bellingham, Washington to see my dad, and then flying east to the DC area to see my...
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Back Home
Back in Daegu, with the fool’s hope that it would actually have cooled down a bit. Silly foreigner! It’s still hot as balls! That said, vacation was great. Seattle was nice and cool, and going to the...
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Teach Me, Teach Me, Teach Me
I’ve been studying Korean at the Daegu YMCA weekly for the past two years but alas, my co-student has left the city for greener pastures. There’s a group of three or so students currently there that,...
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Fall
Since I spend about 37 percent of my waking time complaining about how hot and humid South Korea is in summer, let alone little ol’ Daegu being the hottest city in the country, it’s only fair that I...
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Ghosts And Goblins
Today we’re having my college’s first International Zone Halloween Party, to coincide with our annual fall festival. Good times. The decorations look good because I had nothing to do with them.
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Halloween!
Last year my college opened up the Global Zone, an area in our library where students can drop in to practice their English through “freetalking, ” as we like to call it, with the foreign faculty....
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Das Unheimliche
Daegu, South Korea. No idea what’s going on inside this place. I’m guessing skin suits are involved.
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Champs
Congratulations to three-peating Korean Baseball Organization champions the Samsung Lions. You have made us Daegu-ites proud, yet again.
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Hanging Out At The Y
Daegu, South Korea. This is the entrance to the Daegu YMCA. I come here every Saturday for Korean class. On the one hand, I’m definitely making progress with the language. On the other hand, I...
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Seo-mun Market, Daegu
Located in downtown Daegu, Seo-mun Market (“West Gate Market”) is one of the oldest traditional markets in Korea. It’s a bit weather-beaten, and it sits in the literal shadow of a shiny new...
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Bulgogi!
You know you’re in for a serious beef encounter when you walk into a restaurant and the first thing you see you a meat counter. My sister was visiting from America and it was the end of the semester,...
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Daegu Oriental Medicine Street
Right off of Daegu’s downtown shopping district is Oriental Medicine Street. If you need ginseng tea or powdered deer antler, you’re in the right place. Further down the street is a...
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Blues Brother
Daegu, South Korea. Downtown Daegu is funny. The stores all flock together on a single street. So you’ve got “Motorcycle/Scooter Street,” “Refrigerator Street,” and here’s a pic from my favorite —...
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Brrr
It’s been a pretty mild winter here in lovely Daegu so far, but the wind is feeling a bit vicious today. Might have to break out the scarf and gloves soon as I shuffle miserably between my apartment...
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Hippity Hoppity
Daegu, South Korea. I’ve never met Huckleberry-P but I feel as if I’ve known him all my life.
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