tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34199491739907159242011-04-29T18:12:19.670+09:00Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go through certain half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument of insidious intent to lead you to an overwhelming question... Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" Let us go and make our visit.Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11557144221608621354noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419949173990715924.post-6321244857642580762011-04-29T18:04:00.002+09:002011-04-29T18:12:19.684+09:00

Oh my God - Catherine Walker is the dress designer!!1! But Botox Lady says that means Kate's dress will be simple and flowing.

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Would people please stop saying "fascinator"!!

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"Toronto's own David Furnish, and his partner Elton John"

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What in the name of God is Anne Macmillan wearing?

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I want to see what Chan Shingadia is wearing!

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PM - 100 million pints to be raised in UK alone today. He had to add that's above normal.

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Mansbridge (PM from now on) is pretty snarky today.

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This seems easiest - all my pics are now on the right-hand side, arranged by topic/location.

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Okay, the great flickr experiment is over. Flickr sucks. I can only create three different 'sets' or albums, and have a very limited number of photos I can upload per month. This is with a free account, mind, though I have absolutely no intention of paying for something on the internet (I mean, really!). So I'm looking around trying to find a new host - one that offers unlimited storage/

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Okay, I've moved all my pics over to flickr and will try to make that a permanent link on my page here so you don't have to search through posts looking for the Facebook links. It should be on the right-hand side.And FYI - that "AccuWeather" widget? Not even close.

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More photos online, from yesterday's football match with Michelle. FC Seoul went down in a heartbreaker against Suwon, 1-0.

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Finally have some photos online. Click here.

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And I'm looking forward to writing most of them. The vast majority of the kids are great - some... well, if we're being completely honest:Mrs. 백, your demon-spawn Phil has me contemplating a vasectomy and vow of silence before I beat him to death with my unabridged copy of Strunk's "The Elements of Style". My recommendation is that you tie him up in a burlap sack and chuck him into the Han

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Two posts in one day. Will wonders never cease.I was just marking some journals and thought I'd share. All the writing classes have a journal with various topics/questions and the kids are assigned two or three a week as homework and the writing teacher collects and corrects them every so often. The most recent topic from 2C writing was to write about your favourite story character - why do

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Cor, this blogging malarkey is hard to keep up on.Let's see, let's see... off to the footie next weekend (next next weekend - April 8th) with Michelle, one of the Korean teachers. Looks like my local is FC Seoul. Here we go here we go here we go! First match is against Suwon, those dirty bastards. Manchester United is coming into town for a friendly against FC Seoul on July 20th. Will be trying

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March 14th is White Day in Korea. February 14th was Valentine's, of course, only with a Sadie Hawkins twist - women give men chocolate. White Day is all about the ladies, who are supposed to receive candy from male admirers.I'm holding out for April 14th - Black Day. Yep, that's reserved for all we singletons to get together and commiserate while eating 짜장면 - jjajangmyeon, noodles with black bean

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Meant to mention - our field trip to the DMZ was postponed. Despite Mary's insistence that we take the tour visiting Panmunjeon (or else why bother, really!), the agent stuck us on a different tour. So we'll try again in the Spring - will be nicer one it's warm and things are in bloom, anyway. It was actually a bit of good fortune - when I went to immigration to get my Alien Registration Card,

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Looks like we're in for a bit of rain the next few days, so I think this weekend I'll pop up to the Seoul Museum of Art - they've got a René Magritte exhibit on through April. Belgian surrealism seems the perfect way to while away a dreary day.The picture here is one of Magritte's more famous paintings, The Son of Man (1964). A self-portrait with his face obscured by an apple, Magritte had this

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Sorry the lack of posts since I arrived in sunny Seoul - blogger was defaulting to Korean and it took me a bit of trial and (much) error to figure out how to find the English button. But it seems we're now a go...Everything is going fine over here - classes are good, kids are amusing. Pretty attentive and eager to learn, at least compared to our lazy North American kids. After regular state

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Back up again at 4am to make my way to the airport. Catch a 7:45am American Airlines flight to Chicago O'Hare where I connect with an 11:40am Korean Air flight. Land at Incheon with MacArthur-like panache 7 Feb at 5:45pm, Korea-time, or 3:45am in Toronto. Fire up a sweet, sweet Dunhill at 5:46. Seek out Mr Kim, who is to meet me at the airport. Then it's off to Seoul to find my new home and get

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Thanks to Mary, a fellow Canadian teaching at the same school I've been hired by, I've already got my first day-trip in South Korea sorted. We, along with another teacher, Robert, will be visiting Panmunjeom on February 18th, during the Lunar New Year long weekend.The actual Panmunjeom was a tiny village located in the middle the DMZ (the four kilometre-deep demilitarized zone bisecting the

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