Pepero Day

We're flying through the semester. This is week 12 of 15. Beginning to think about the final exams, and Christmas.

The pic of the week shows three of my Chinese students in the International Business School. I arrived into class and they were all wearing animal hats, with bears, lions and pandas. 

Pepero day

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Some Korean celebrations are difficult to understand. Pepero day is a good example. Pepero is a type of wafer stick, sometimes covered with chocolate. Wednesday was pepero day, and every shop and supermarket was selling them. There were aisles set up in the supermarket for it, and stalls set up in the city centre. It was along the lines of the Easter Egg displays at home. However, as far as anyone can tell me, there is no basis for it, other than they want to sell more pepero. This is a link to a very colourful, noisy, busy, and very Korean style, website to promote the day. 

Cold weather

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The past few days have been very cold. It was snowing lightly when I got up on Sunday. And my students tell me it was minus 5 the other night. It's certainly cold going to my morning classes on the scooter. I'm wrapped in scarves and gloves, but haven't yet found how to protect my eyes, which are always streaming in the cold.

I don't know how I haven't contracted H1N1, because I've had a lot of students off with it at this stages. Rates of infection were due to peak on 13th November, with infection rates of over 4,000 per day, and 52 deaths. 

Scooter

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Speaking of the scooter, it cost about €170 at current exchange rates. But I've now received €178 in taxi fares allowances since I got it. So it's totally paid for at this stage. It's a great purchase and I love it.

Online translater

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My students are very fond of writing in Korean or Chinese and putting it through Google Translate into English as a shortcut. It's normally very obvious. For example, this week one of my Chinese students sent me an email, and wanted to say that her homework was attached to the email. 

Dear Teacher, my homework is in accessory clamp. Thanks!

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Well, that's it for this week. So until next time,

Annyeong-hi kaseyo.

Éamon

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