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Name: Elysia
Gender: Female
Interests: Life, God, sleep, people, knitting, food, books, chocolate, the color blue, travel, language, photography, maps, clocks, driving, music, ink pens
Expertise: Procrastination, eating, napping, garlic
Occupation: Zookeeper
Industry: English Education
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Member Since:
8/22/2005
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If any of you out there want to know what it is like to live and teach English in Korea, watch this obnoxious video. Its half clever, half horrid, and it gets stuck in my head.The scary part is that I totally understand everything they're talking about. Enjoy!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QjBfy_HVoSM | | |
| Folding FreedomFolding bike= self determination, not waiting for the bus, endorphins to counteract the sidewalk/road rage and freedom. The folding bike waits for no man! (but I haven't figured out how to fold/unfold it yet...) | | |
| Hamartia I understand that the Greek word "hamartia" means "missing the mark" and is where we get our idea of sin. If this is so, then the little Korean schoolgirls with whom I share a bathroom sin daily. Its a hole in the floor, is it so hard? 
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| Its that time again...Its election time in Korea. I know this because there was a sudden influx of tiny flatbed trucks with podiums, speakers and video screens on them, floating about the city broadcasting information about candidates. The most exciting part is that most of them simply play catchy songs with the candidate's name in them. They sound pretty wretched, but I think it works. During the last election (Presidential...December 2007), I had a jingle stuck in my head for weeks for Jung Dong Young... No idea who is or what he stands for but all his posters were orange and his song was...energetic. Also they pay people to wear matching shirts and bow to people and say things in unison. Not sure what they're saying. Probably something like "Vote for this guy. He's cool." But I hope its something more like "You look really great today!!" This makes me wonder, what if the American candidates had songs? I like to think that Hillary's should be a rap, Obama would use bagpipes, Giuliani would have an accordion and McCain would have trumpets... | | |
| I'm not dead yet...In November, we celebrated Jordan's 30th birthday for 30 days. In December, we went to Hawai'i to his mom's home for a week, then to my parents house in St Louis for a week. This included family Christmas, my cousin's fabulous wedding, New Years (card party with cousins,etc, actual beginning of 2008 in WAFFLE HOUSE). In January, I had Lasek surgery on my eyes (in Korea... its a super great deal). Then I went to English Camp for 2 weeks. In February, my horrible 6th graders graduated and we got ready for the next school year to begin. Then Jordan and I went to NYC for a few days to hang out with German people. Then we went to West Point and on February 23, and 1500 in the Cadet Chapel and West Point, we became married people. From there we went back to the city, saw Lion King and Rent. Then we went to Beijing for one night (shopped for crazy bargains and saw the flag-raising at sunrise in Tianmen Square), then to Phuket, Thailand for 6 days of warm weather and relaxing. Now its March. I'm an old married woman, my last semester in Korean school has started and life is great. Korea is thawing out, Harry Connick Jr came to Seoul yesterday to sing (to us!) and our friends had a baby yesterday. I wonder if its bad that I really like packing lunch for my husband? I'm feeling more sane now that the wedding planning phase of my life is over. Whew! What to do with all this free time?? Bake? Read? Take classes? Write stuff? Knit? I know I'll be gardening (at school!) and cooking... | | |
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