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Essay Topic: You are shipwrecked on a deserted island, with no other people. You can take two things with you, but they cannot be electronic (no TVs, computers, cell phones...). What two things do you take, and why? "If I am island trapped, I take two things no. One thing! I take teleporter!!...

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alli_ockinga on July 21, 2009 from Inch'on, South Korea

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Mom practice

So far, I've spent my morning constructing a "butterfly bank" out of a recycled aloe juice bottle, some construction paper, googly eyes and pipe cleaners in order to teach my science class the value of recycling. A little background: I teach 15 classes, twice a week, with students ranging in...

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alli_ockinga on June 25, 2009 from Inch'on, South Korea

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Just like Donatello

We trained with bow staffs in hapkido today. Actually, Ellen has been training with the staff for more than a month now, and as part of the ongoing cultivation of Master’s dream to have two white girl ninjas, he’s got me following in her path once again. I am forever six months behind Ellen on...

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alli_ockinga on June 11, 2009 from Inch'on, South Korea

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Things are amiss.

Things are amiss in Korea. I should probably be grading the stack of diaries my T6 class just handed in, but my dinner will arrive in a few minutes, so I’m taking advantage of the for-once quiet teacher’s room to sit back and think. It’s eighty five and humid as a greenhouse today, which...

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alli_ockinga on May 27, 2009 from Inch'on, South Korea

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Wading through Hangul

“Adios,” I say to the traveling melon man in my parking lot. Thursday is market day, when I stock up my fridge with all sorts of freshly grown delights. “I mean, ahnyung-hee…” Curses. What is the second half? “Um…bye bye,” I finish lamely, packing my cantaloupes home in shame. This is...

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alli_ockinga on May 7, 2009 from Inch'on, South Korea

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Black Belt Test

Ellen has convinced me to become a ninja, and so I am taking hapkido with her. Hapkido is a Korean martial art that's kind of like akido plus judo (I think. You might want to wikipedia that.) Anyway, it combines both attack and defensive techniques, utilizing hand-to-hand combat and weapons,...

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alli_ockinga on April 29, 2009 from Inch'on, South Korea

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Students

When I defaulted to an education emphasis within my English degree in college, I had only the vaguest idea of what it really means to be a teacher. There are a lot of surprises that I am still figuring out, but the best is this: I had no idea how hilarious kids can be. I mean, I sort of did....

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alli_ockinga on March 19, 2009 from Inch'on, South Korea

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