Brilliant:

Apartment in Sanbon

This is just down the hall where I lived in Korea. It is another teacher's room. Since my place is one room my place is a bit smaller than this. Other than that, it is basically the same:

Sanbon Apartment

This Looks Like Fun

I'm not sure what she is saying but it looks like a fun story:

Cantonese Dubbing

Amazing

At first I couldn't tell if I was in love with this woman, or freaked out by her, or thought she was from another planet. Which ever way, she has some great advice on learning accents. Enjoy!


21 Accents

Amy Walker On Accents

Rethinking Education

Ken Robinson reveals some of the issues that our current educational system is facing. You can watch his speech here:

Schools Kill Creativity

Japan

I needed to a take a mini vacation in Japan for a few days. Some of my adventures included yet are not limited to:

Sleeping through boarding

Easy navigation

Empty beaches

Sidewalkless streets

Getting lost many times

Japanese Mario brothers

Not-so-Wedding crashing

Bowing competitions

Fun with signs

Genkiness

Second encounters

More bowing

Fun sightseeing

Interesting conversations

Good food

Good sounds

Good smells

Good sights

No worries



Now I'm back in Korea. I'm really interested in seeing more of Japan. It was nice to be there even though it was such a short period of time.

New Year, New School, New Beginning

I'm off to Korea, Here is a glimpse of where I'm going:

Herald School Sanbon

Looking Forward to School

Check out this improved system for organizing phone calls to a school: Answering Machine

On and On

Erik searches for sanity in job hunting

The Search Continues

Here was my action plan for today:

A) Write an email to somebody in Seoul
B) Listen to a video from ParryGripp to maintain (or not so maintain) my job-searching sanity.

Wear Your Seat Belt

Just another reason why I seem to be finding more and more seat belts on buses.

Korean Numbers

Native Korean Numbers

1. 하나 /Hana/
2. 둘 /Dul/
3. 셋 /Set/
4. 넷 /Net/
5. 다섯 /Daseot/
6. 여섯 /Yeoseot/
7. 일곱 /ilgop/
8. 여덟 /Yeodeol/
9. 아홉 /Ahop/
10. 열 /Yeol/

Sino-Korean Numbers

1. 일 /il/
2. 이 /i/
3. 삼 /sam/
4. 사 /sa/
5. 오 /o/
6. 육 /yuk/
7. 칠 /chil/
8. 팔 /pal/
9. 구 /gu/
10. 십 /sip/

Busy Atom Teachers Numbers

Challenge the Impossible

I liked the title of this video. "Challenging the Impossible" is one of the ways, we, as a civilization, can make progress.

What's Going on Here?

¡Contamos en Coreano!

Espanol y que es saber

I wrote this a while ago but I thought that I'd share it now, it has many errors but I'll leave it as is in its unedited version:

Aglunas veces me gustaria escribir todas las cosa que estan en mi mente. Pero a veces you no se exectamente como yo puedo exprimir todas que you queria decir. Para aprendre un segundo idima, necesitas una paciencia muy grande. Porque la efueza que es necesario para el exito en una otra lengua es enorme.

A veces, quisas pienses que tu no puedas tener exito porque el trabajo est demasiado. Pero no te preocupes, si el idioma es importante para ti de aprendre tu vas a aprenderlo. Si la costa esta grande, las ganas estan grande tambien.

Quando estaba al Univesidad estudiaba el espanol en un classes de otras edutientes, mas viejo como yo pero me encantaba esta situacion porque estaba un reto grande para mi. Realmente estaba al colegio pero tenia la opotunidad de aprender al Univesida mi ultima ano de escuela. Al tiempo, pensia que estaba en pisto rapido a ona carera fuerte en mis estudias. Pero tenia mas lessiones de realisar en la vida antes podria termina mes estudios.

Actualmente, ya estoy estudiando. Al pasado, pensia que los estudios ya peude terminar despues el Universidad. Pero ahora, yo conozco que, para mi propia vida, estudiar es mi vida. Me gustaria aprender mas y mas del mundo y pare hacerlo debo estudiar mas y mas. Los experiencias estan los mas importantes en la vida porque para realmente saber, debes experienzar. Si no tu no sabes el verdad de las informacion que tu quieres saber.

Different Birthday Party Expereince

Last night we celebrated the birthday of one of my roommates. I think there was a cake but I was asleep by the time it arrived. I'm still trying to figure out the customs of Peruvian parties and I'm not sure if I ever will. I thought that the party was starting at 8pm, which was the time that my roommate originally told me so I was ready by then. I soon realized that the party would start a little later but I had no idea what that really meant at this point. I knew that we were going to have dinner at some point so I only had a few snacks to try to hold me over to a traditional 10pm dinner in Spain. Well eventually 9pm comes and goes and there is still nobody at the party. I do what I've learned to do and wait in my room because the previous parties were like this as well. Yet the difference with this one is that people actually showed up really early for the party even though it didn't technically start until later.

Anyway, so another hour goes by and know I know that this is going to be something special. At around 11 pm finally some people show up and we start off the night with some drinks. keep in mind that I still haven't eaten a meal since 1 pm so this drinks hit me pretty hard. Finally more people arrive at around midnight and it looks more like a party. After playing a few rounds of "pasame la botella" I'm really hoping to have dinner soon. Finally, I'm not sure what time it is but after 2am in the morning we have dinner. I'm surprised at how large the appetizer is yet at this point I'm grateful that I am finally eating. It was a lettuce and potato dish topped off with a spicy sauce. I finish the appetizer as quickly as possible and start questioning what will the next round be. I think about it for awhile an come to the conclusion that based on what I saw going on in the kitchen the appetizer was the meal. At this point I realize that I have had way to much alcohol that I was hoping that the dinner would absorb some, but everything was a surprise this evening so I was out of luck. I tried dancing it off for a while but eventually I just needed to lie down. I went to my room and fell fast asleep at around 4am. Like I said, I'm not sure if there was ever a cake but I was too tired at that point to try to stay awake.

Anyway, that's the story of my night. I think I need to go back to sleep and I'm not even sure in anything that I typed really made any sense. I'll ask everyone when they wake up what happened after I feel asleep.

The Only Movie You Must Watch This Year

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Quick Update

My parents came to visit me in Madrid for a few days and it was really nice to see them. They were here only for the weekend and it seemed as time went by all to quickly.

I am currently still looking for teaching in Korea and I hope to find something soon. I am working on a concept for a new blog because I find that this one just doesn't provide the kind of value that I would like to have if a produce a blog. I will still update this one and it might go through some transitional phases as I develop my new blog. I'm not even sure if anyone reads this one anymore because I really dropped out of using it as it was originally intended.

If you are interested in some photos scope out my flickr page.

Bonne courage Many blessings!

Hasta Luego!
Erik

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