Sorry I didn’t have time to do this any better, but I know some students had a problem getting the file I emailed.
Here’s the photo I took of the memo. I hope that helps!
I was in class the other day and a student came up to me and said:
“Professor, will you go ‘aaarrghhhh!!!’ and make a gesture?”
I said, “aaaarrrgghhhh!!! of course”.
And she used her iPhone and took a picture of me.
That might seem unusual to some people, but it happens to me, occasionally. I’m asked to take a photo, say something for a short video, etc.
Later I got a message from Facebook saying there was a new picture of me posted.
It was this one:
I think the app that was used is called Manga Camera.
Anyway, it’s an interesting picture, I think.
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Today was hot.
Today was also the last day for Wednesday classes for the spring semester at the Hoshigaoka campus.
I’ve been having lunch with a group of students who took my Web English class last year. We can’t always meet because of their schedules, but we usually get together and today was the last chance for the semester to have lunch, so I’m happy we could do it.
Also, since Bynn and Ahn finished school last week, it’s a little difficult working out our family schedule. There’s only me and my wife (no grandma or aunts around) so when the boys are out of school it can be a little of a problem.
Bynn of course went to the states yesterday, but Ahn is still here. That means, yes, it was ‘take your son to school day’ today, for me anyway.
It’s not our first time, and he’s really good about it.
Of course it didn’t hurt that this group was particularly interested in having him there 😉
Here’s a photo we took right after eating:
Thanks you guys! Hope we can get together next semester, too!
I’m really missing Korea these days. I’ve heard several times from one of my friends there, and almost went over to speak at a conference, but that fell through.
All of that just makes me want to go there for a visit even more.
I lived in Korea for 6 years (already 10 in Japan now, wow!) but it seems like yesterday and like it was a lot longer. It was a very big part of my life, and well, still is.
One of the things that always impressed me was that old stuff was really old.
In the US, old was 50 years, maybe 100. In Korea that’s still infancy.
It was really amazing (not using that word lightly here) to walk into a temple or garden that had stood, virtually the same, for 100’s of years.
One of my favorites is Bulguk Temple – 불국사 – located in Kyoungju (often called BulgukSa Temple, but the “Sa” means “Temple” so is redundant).
Actually the name means Land (country) of Buddha Temple and began construction in 751. You can ‘feel’ that when you enter the gates. It’s been restored a number of times, but still has essentially the same structure as it had when originally built. Pretty impressive.
Here’s a photo I took of it the last time I visited:
Glasses as fashion are a fairly new thing, especially for them just being for the sake of fashion and not to help you see better – just look better?
You see NBA stars and others these days sporting big frames with either plain glass lenses or even no lenses at all.
Some of my students wear them, too.
I took a photo of me a while ago wearing some glasses that gave me sort of the Clark Kent look, but I had the chance to try some different ones a couple of days ago.
I’m not sure I’m really the super hero type, but I do believe my ‘secret identity’ self is a good cover 😉