This is my teacher, Allegria:
This is his adorable little boy Joon who is already learning Cappoeira and will be amazing!
The group does Cappoeira at the park some days:
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Cappoeira
So I am finally going to Cappoeira on a regular basis and am loving it. Here are some photos. Last night we had a goodbye for Barbara who is going back to Croatia.
This is my teacher, Allegria:
This is his adorable little boy Joon who is already learning Cappoeira and will be amazing!
The group does Cappoeira at the park some days:
This is my teacher, Allegria:
This is his adorable little boy Joon who is already learning Cappoeira and will be amazing!
The group does Cappoeira at the park some days:
Monday, June 15, 2009
Duck and Cover
Today from my classroom I heard air raid sirens. I am told this is a normal monthly test that has only occurred once since I have been here. I am a bit skeptical but don't worry as I am fully prepared:
Monday, June 8, 2009
I'm leaving on a jet plane
and hopefully not a giant missle. I have four months left and North Korea is really starting to piss me off. A bunch of giant assholes:
June 8, 2009
U.S. Weighs Intercepting North Korean Shipments
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration signaled Sunday that it was seeking a way to interdict, possibly with China’s help, North Korean sea and air shipments suspected of carrying weapons or nuclear technology.
The administration also said it was examining whether there was a legal basis to reverse former President George W. Bush’s decision last year to remove the North from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.
The reference to interdictions — preferably at ports or airfields in countries like China, but possibly involving riskier confrontations on the high seas — was made by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. She was the highest-ranking official to talk publicly about such a potentially provocative step as a response to North Korea’s second nuclear test, conducted two weeks ago.
Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” Mrs. Clinton said the United States feared that if the test and other recent actions by North Korea did not lead to “strong action,” there was a risk of “an arms race in Northeast Asia” — an oblique reference to the concern that Japan would reverse its long-held ban against developing nuclear weapons.
June 9, 2009
N. Korea Sentences 2 U.S. Journalists to 12 Years of Hard Labor
By CHOE SANG-HUN
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Monday sentenced two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor in a case widely seen as a test of how far the isolated Communist state was willing to take its confrontation with the United States.
Ms. Ling and Ms. Lee were detained by North Korean soldiers patrolling the border between China and North Korea on March 17.
The sentence, which cannot be appealed, came amid rising tensions between Washington and Pyongyang. Earlier Monday, North Korea threatened to retaliate with “extreme” measures if the United Nations punished it for its nuclear test last month, and Washington warned that it might try to restore the North to its list of states that sponsor terrorism, a designation that could subject the impoverished state to more financial sanctions.
Ms. Ling and Ms. Lee were on a reporting assignment from Current TV, a San Francisco-based media company co-founded by Al Gore, the former vice president, when they were detained by the soldiers. The reporters were working on a report about North Korean refugees — women and children — who had fled their homeland in hopes of finding food in China.
The circumstances surrounding their capture remain unclear.
Analysts said they were pawns in a rapidly deteriorating confrontation between the United States and North Korea — a potential bargaining chip for the Pyongyang regime and a handicap for Washington in its efforts to pressure the government over its recent missile and nuclear tests.
June 8, 2009
U.S. Weighs Intercepting North Korean Shipments
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration signaled Sunday that it was seeking a way to interdict, possibly with China’s help, North Korean sea and air shipments suspected of carrying weapons or nuclear technology.
The administration also said it was examining whether there was a legal basis to reverse former President George W. Bush’s decision last year to remove the North from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.
The reference to interdictions — preferably at ports or airfields in countries like China, but possibly involving riskier confrontations on the high seas — was made by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. She was the highest-ranking official to talk publicly about such a potentially provocative step as a response to North Korea’s second nuclear test, conducted two weeks ago.
Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” Mrs. Clinton said the United States feared that if the test and other recent actions by North Korea did not lead to “strong action,” there was a risk of “an arms race in Northeast Asia” — an oblique reference to the concern that Japan would reverse its long-held ban against developing nuclear weapons.
June 9, 2009
N. Korea Sentences 2 U.S. Journalists to 12 Years of Hard Labor
By CHOE SANG-HUN
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Monday sentenced two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor in a case widely seen as a test of how far the isolated Communist state was willing to take its confrontation with the United States.
Ms. Ling and Ms. Lee were detained by North Korean soldiers patrolling the border between China and North Korea on March 17.
The sentence, which cannot be appealed, came amid rising tensions between Washington and Pyongyang. Earlier Monday, North Korea threatened to retaliate with “extreme” measures if the United Nations punished it for its nuclear test last month, and Washington warned that it might try to restore the North to its list of states that sponsor terrorism, a designation that could subject the impoverished state to more financial sanctions.
Ms. Ling and Ms. Lee were on a reporting assignment from Current TV, a San Francisco-based media company co-founded by Al Gore, the former vice president, when they were detained by the soldiers. The reporters were working on a report about North Korean refugees — women and children — who had fled their homeland in hopes of finding food in China.
The circumstances surrounding their capture remain unclear.
Analysts said they were pawns in a rapidly deteriorating confrontation between the United States and North Korea — a potential bargaining chip for the Pyongyang regime and a handicap for Washington in its efforts to pressure the government over its recent missile and nuclear tests.
Beep, beep, beep, beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!
Dear anyone reading this lame, lame blog that was originally constructed to share cultural experiences and loads of pictures and was sorely dissapointed by the lack of:
I will be leaving Korea October 1st. I will be traveling alone for 2 months. I will be sleeping in hammocks, dirt floors, beaches, and perhaps one or two hospital beds. I will be going to the bathroom and using a hose to clean my butt. I will be eating food that will sometimes give me diarrhea. I will be taking buses with chickens on them. I will be hiking a lot. I will be sleeping a lot. I will be smiling ear to ear. a lot.
Anyone interested in joining me for any of these things (which I just now see implies you could choose to join me only for the diarrhea portion of my trip, or only meet up whenever I clean my butt with a hose) or knows of anyone who is interested in these things, let me know.
I will most likely be in one or all of the following locations:
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia.
October - December
Im really excited to travel alone, but some company from time to time would be welcomed...especially in Cambodia or Vietnam.
K. Awesome.
I will be leaving Korea October 1st. I will be traveling alone for 2 months. I will be sleeping in hammocks, dirt floors, beaches, and perhaps one or two hospital beds. I will be going to the bathroom and using a hose to clean my butt. I will be eating food that will sometimes give me diarrhea. I will be taking buses with chickens on them. I will be hiking a lot. I will be sleeping a lot. I will be smiling ear to ear. a lot.
Anyone interested in joining me for any of these things (which I just now see implies you could choose to join me only for the diarrhea portion of my trip, or only meet up whenever I clean my butt with a hose) or knows of anyone who is interested in these things, let me know.
I will most likely be in one or all of the following locations:
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia.
October - December
Im really excited to travel alone, but some company from time to time would be welcomed...especially in Cambodia or Vietnam.
K. Awesome.
lists
In the last month or so, while "teaching" usually, I have developed the habit of list making. It is somehow comforting and somewhat neurotic. Indeed. Here are the results:
Number of times I have moved:
Dover, Ohio
Katy, Texas
Valreco, Florida
Marietta, Georgia
Cheshire, Connecticut
Houston, Texas
San Antonio, Texas
Beijing, China
Austin, Texas
London, England
Austin, Texas
Seoul, South Korea
Total= 12
Countries I have been to:
USA
Canada
Mexico
Belgium
Holland
Germany
Switzerland
England
Ireland
China
South Korea
Thailand
Total=12
Jobs I have held:
Mailboxes, etc (cashier and loser of mail-Houston)
Randalls Grocery (checkerouter of food-Houston)
Tutor (reader of books to blind students- San Antonio)
Mayor's office (assistant of assistant of mayor-Austin)
Japanese Restraunt (spiller of drinks-Idaho)
Nanny (cleaner of vomit-Austin)
Texas Physician Magazine (caller of ad people-Austin)
Nanny(cleaner of vomit-London)
AMC movie theatre (manager of pimply-faced kids-Idaho)
STARBUCKS (chill out Brett, I didn't forget the only reason we became friends)
Sweetish Hill Bakery (manager of pimply-faced kids and baker of goods-Austin)
Taylor Texas Newspaper (writer and editor of news-Taylor)
Teacher (back to cleaner of vomit-Seoul)
Total= 13 (broke the trend)
During this process I have come to a number that is not 12conclusions:
1. Lists serve no purpose
2. Lists compartmentalize your life into neat,color-coded (if you're awesome) boxes
3. Neat, color-coded boxes of your life can be depressing. Unless you use blue, cause blue is soothing.
4. People who make lists are typically uncomfortable with chaos and quite controlling
5. By looking at these list, one can see why the list-maker has been making lists
6. This list has made me realize I have spent most of my time cleaning up childrens vomit.
7. The compulsion to make a list of what I have learned from lists is making me ill
8. The urge to complete 12 things in current list shows an overwhelming need for vacation.
The lists stop here. Bring on the chaos.
Number of times I have moved:
Dover, Ohio
Katy, Texas
Valreco, Florida
Marietta, Georgia
Cheshire, Connecticut
Houston, Texas
San Antonio, Texas
Beijing, China
Austin, Texas
London, England
Austin, Texas
Seoul, South Korea
Total= 12
Countries I have been to:
USA
Canada
Mexico
Belgium
Holland
Germany
Switzerland
England
Ireland
China
South Korea
Thailand
Total=12
Jobs I have held:
Mailboxes, etc (cashier and loser of mail-Houston)
Randalls Grocery (checkerouter of food-Houston)
Tutor (reader of books to blind students- San Antonio)
Mayor's office (assistant of assistant of mayor-Austin)
Japanese Restraunt (spiller of drinks-Idaho)
Nanny (cleaner of vomit-Austin)
Texas Physician Magazine (caller of ad people-Austin)
Nanny(cleaner of vomit-London)
AMC movie theatre (manager of pimply-faced kids-Idaho)
STARBUCKS (chill out Brett, I didn't forget the only reason we became friends)
Sweetish Hill Bakery (manager of pimply-faced kids and baker of goods-Austin)
Taylor Texas Newspaper (writer and editor of news-Taylor)
Teacher (back to cleaner of vomit-Seoul)
Total= 13 (broke the trend)
During this process I have come to a number that is not 12conclusions:
1. Lists serve no purpose
2. Lists compartmentalize your life into neat,color-coded (if you're awesome) boxes
3. Neat, color-coded boxes of your life can be depressing. Unless you use blue, cause blue is soothing.
4. People who make lists are typically uncomfortable with chaos and quite controlling
5. By looking at these list, one can see why the list-maker has been making lists
6. This list has made me realize I have spent most of my time cleaning up childrens vomit.
7. The compulsion to make a list of what I have learned from lists is making me ill
8. The urge to complete 12 things in current list shows an overwhelming need for vacation.
The lists stop here. Bring on the chaos.
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