I grew up in a piano-playing household. Primarily due to the fact that my mother is a piano teacher and my brother and I were always surrounded by a piano, sheet music and pupils who struggled to play their scales. Each year we would be bombarded with differing renditions of ‘Santa Claus is Coming to…
(You can click and print the calendar) It’s often around early August I start to wonder ‘What happened to my favorite TV show? Did it get cancelled? Is it back on? I should really check that out!’. While living in Korea, I watched a lot of TV but not actually on the TV itself. As…
My mother calls from Ireland. I’m in Canada. We had this conversation while I was getting ready to go out to dinner. Me: “Ou, did I tell you my plant has started to grow?” Her: “No. A plant on your balcony?” Me: “Yeah.” Her: “Is it a cocaine plant?” Me: “No. It’s a spinach plant.”…
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…
The best of this week’s quotes from my elementary students in South Korea (and some thrown in from friends too) Firstly, this is only my second day at school this week due to Korean Thanksgiving so I ain’t got a lot to share but my students DID do writing work during the break and came…
Happy Timewasting!! *** *** *** Further proving English is just weird! Whenever my students ask me ‘Why?’ with regards to the English language, my response is always ‘Because English is strange and you just have to learn it that way…’ *** Two versions of the same thing, both appearing in my newsfeed on the same…
A friend of mine LOVES writing letters. She just loves it. I, meanwhile, do not. I’m so lazy sometimes the thought of replying ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to an email makes me sigh. But here’s the thing, I love love love receiving letters. I adore it. The Canadian One leaves a note each morning for me…
