People always ask me ‘How did you and The Canadian One meet?’, ‘Why is your blog called The Ketchup War?’ and ‘Why is the printer beeping? Can you come fix it?” To answer that last question first, I have no idea. I’ll turn it off and turn it on and if that doesn’t work, I’ll…
And I’ve only ever experienced any kind of direct, to-my-face discrimination because I am Irish twice. And it was in Korea. And it was from another Irish person. Well, two, in fact. It happened twice on separate, years apart occasions. It was because I am from Dublin and they were from Northern Ireland. They didn’t…
A serialistion of the popular Quote Friday book: Watch Out For The Hedgehog, four years of hilarious kids’ quotes from the ESL elementary school classroom in South Korea. Chapter Four: On Vocabulary Almost every day, the kids learn six new vocabulary words. In the next class, we usually review them. Me: “What’s different about ‘church’ and…
This week, Timewaste with Quote Friday!! Ou, it’s like an illicit affair, right? The two weekly posts, joining forces…it’s all so exciting. Yes, ohhhhh yes, it’s that time! It’s FINALLY. THAT. TIME!! THE HEDGEHOG’S BEEN UNLEASHED! And to celebrate this Tuesday/Friday get together, here at The Ketchup War, we’re giving you, YES YOU, a whopping 50% off…
The best of this week’s quotes from my elementary students in South Korea (and some thrown in from friends too) And so we come to the penultimate edition of Quote Friday. In a week where we hit our first birthday, details of the book emerged and the 200th post was written, it’s with great sadness that I…
The best of this week’s quotes from my elementary students in South Korea (and some thrown in from friends too) Not a quote but WTH? I read this this morning: On to the quotes: A kid arrives and stares at the collection of pumpkins we have by the window: Kid: ‘Teacher!! Pumpkin village!!!’ *** While…
The best of this week’s quotes from my elementary students in South Korea (and some thrown in from friends too) Two kids are calling each other names in Korean before class. Suddenly one of them stands up and screams, really offended, in English: ‘I am NO potato!!!’ *** Me: ‘What’s your favorite holiday?’ Kid: ‘Children’s…
