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Teaching in South Korea

Archive for February, 2009

Congrats!

Congratulations to our 7 year old classes.  They graduated today.  I was there for the November Class ceremony because I was their charge teacher.  I have to admit, I cried.  I had two thirds of those kids since I started teaching at Little Campus.  I’ve seen them come so far, so fast.  Most of them are moving on up to the A and B classes in the afternoon.

I do have pictures, but they’re not downloaded off my camera yet.  Tonight’s a night for playing with the kitty (now named Ivory) and working on my homework.

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Kitten!

I have an adorable ball of fuzz. I’m so excited. It’s only in the last couple weeks I’ve felt like I’ve completed the grieving process with Sparkler. I loved her so much. But, I knew I didn’t want another guinea pig. I knew I wanted a cat. Now, you have to understand, Korea is not a cat country. No serious. It’s really not. I went to a dozen places before I found one with a cat for sale. And dear lord was she expensive. But she was totally worth every won I spent. She’s been in my life less than 12 hours and I can’t imagine living without her.

Right now, she’s curled up in (on?) one of my shoes. Once I coaxed her out from under the bed, she started to play. She has one of those mice on an elastic string tied to a stick. She loves it. She was going crazy. She’s purrs like no cat I’ve ever heard before.

I’m still working on the name thing. I know her Korean name will either be 눈(noon) which means snow (and eye) or 구름(goorum) which means cloud. I’m sort of leaning toward 눈. I’m just not sure what English name to give her. I’ll take suggestions.

So here are some pics of my new baby.

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Save the Words

funny pictures of dogs with captions
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I came across “Save the Words” a few days ago (warning, obnoxious website).  The premise is that words that are less common in every day language will be removed from dictionaries.  The people who made this site want to save those words from exclusion.  I doubt the site would do much to save some of these words.  However, it could serve as an interesting teaching tool for advanced students.  Many of the words can be analyzed to find their meaning from the word roots.  This is something I’ve worked on a bit with some of my more advanced students.

Personally, I adoped “nidifice” (noun: a nest)

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