raised by woolves: daily lulz, and friday, at last!

hee hee apparently the Board of Education would like the local English teachers to put on a Christmas performance.. in which we would sing and give speeches all in Korean. As no one really speaks Korean, this is going to be interesting. But at least we have more headsup than the poor teachers in Taebek who I guess were thrust on stage a few weeks ago, in front of the local news cameras, with no clue what to do. Korean culture is notoriously all about last minute. For example, today I was told we're taking a boat trip next wednesday with the staff.. "Where to?" It is not yet decided. "For how long?" Not yet decided. Sigh. Actually, I only caught whiff of this plan accidently, if i hadn't been eavesdropping, i would have just been thrown on the boat next week totally unprepared... i hope they are prepared for my notorious motion sickness, especially when they start with the soju shots and maekoli.

So, I guess giving us a few weeks notice to prepare about the perfromance is pretty good, for Korea. I probably will opt out, though. Most of the korean i know is dirty and rude, since everything I know I is from my students. Um, i can say "get away from me you perverted dirty old man" in Korean... What are the chances there's a korean song with about that? (well, actually, if there isn't, there should be..)

Someone asked me about the tiger picture on the header of my title... no, i didn't draw it, i wish! it is done by Julie Morstad, a fantastic artist from Vancouver. she drew the cover of Neko Case's fantastic Fox Confessor Brings the Flood album, which I am still not sick of. (I can't wait for the new Neko Case album, Middle Cyclone...next March!) Morstad's illustrations have an Edward Gorey quality... weird Edwardian anamorphic children and creature, at once adorable, grotesque, whimsical and macabre. She turns the most mundane activities (reading, taking tea) into surreal scenes from an Old Country faerie tale.