I recently made a weird discovery… I discovered that my phone had been recording every phone call made on my phone from Feb 2015-Jan 2016. Every phone call. Now, while you may be thinking, ‘HOLY SHIT!! WTF?!!! SPIES!!! MALWARE!! OMG!’. I immediately thought, ‘Ohhhh…so that app did work.’ See here’s what happened, I downloaded an…
I saw this article shared on a friend’s Facebook today: And it made me think. I know a lot of girls who could’ve written this article. I’ve been cornered in bars, been called a tease for being friendly, been yelled at in the street, felt uneasy about walking past a group of men, just last month…
This video popped up in my newsfeed today and it made me cry… Video courtesy of Spread the Message Exactly 10 years ago I worked for the Asthma society in Dublin. Each morning, we would all pile into a car or a van and get dropped off, one by one, in various locations around Dublin…
Since I’ve been off school this week there are no new quotes from students so ya’ll will have to wait another seven days to see what ridiculous things my students say in class. To tide you over though, here are some of the best quotes from The Shamrock and The Canadian One do Busan. Having…
My mam calls me on Skype. I’m on video. She’s not. I’m in Korea. She’s in Ireland. It’s the end of the call. Mam: ‘I have to go. I have to run the bath every few hours to drain the water because there’s something wrong with the ball cock in the water tank.’ Me: ‘What…
Quote Friday: A round-up of the best quotes from my elementary school kids in South Korea this week! Ridiculous WordPress Stat Notice of the Week: Someone Googled ‘in what part of canada the strippers earn more money?’ and found me… What the WHAT?! of the Week: While walking through our neighborhood on Wednesday on the…
So some of you may noticed last week’s absence of Quote Friday. For this, I apologise. You see between last week and this week, my students have been finishing their old books and starting their new books. This has involved a lot of writing in class and very little speaking other than the occasional, ‘I…
