Last night, I went to bed at 10:30. I woke up at 6:30 but fell asleep again around 7:00am. I finally woke up at 10:30am! I slept like a baby. I must have needed the sleep because I slept a lot. Today, I wanted to take a look at some phrases related to sleep. … Read More
Sharing Food Last night a few of my coworkers and I had dinner together. We had one of my favorite Korean foods, 회닾밥 (mixed rice with raw fish). One coworker also ordered some fried prawns as well. She dipped hers in the sauce but shared the rest. My other coworker asked if he could have … Read More
Monkey Music I like my friend’s taste in music. Even though she’s much younger than me, we enjoy a lot of the same songs. The topic of country-rock music came up and I disagreed about the Eagles being labeled as country-rock. On Wikipedia, it labels them as such. She also mentioned that the lead singer … Read More
Skyrocketing Covid Cases In Korea, the number of covid cases is skyrocketing. The number of new cases is now over 100,000! This should be alarming, but I think a lot of people don’t care about covid anymore. It seems that people accept that the omicron variant is not that deadly and it is time to … Read More
Sweet Thieves Earlier this year a truck full of Ferrero Rocher chocolates was stolen in Canada. The thieves stole approximately $363,000 CAD worth of chocolate. In the article by CTV News, they joke that the thieves must have a sweet tooth. I have a sweet tooth as well. I recently made a Valentine’s Day themed … Read More
A Conversation about Death I was having a conversation with a co-worker about euphemisms for death. Don’t ask me how we got on that subject because I can’t remember. I added, “He bought the farm” to the list. She asked me why we say that I had no idea. If you read these posts, you’ll … Read More
Oh, My desk! I was shocked to see my desk covered in straws when I came in to work today. It seems as though I was pranked. To be fair, I pranked a coworker earlier in the week by surrounding his desk in pylons. While I was out teaching a special lecture, the office got … Read More
This is from a three-hour special lecture on escape rooms. In the first hour I demonstrated escape room concepts by having the participants try an escape room in a box. Since I did this lesson on February 14th, the escape room is based on Valentine’s Day. I have uploaded the materials for the escape room, … Read More
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