My rep checked in with my future school to see if they had booked my plane ticket yet. They responded with "We were waiting for her to get her visa ( Read more... )

Wellywood has been steadily releasing production photos of _The Hobbit_'s dwarven cast. Some had beards that I didn't personally think respectable enough for a dwarf. Putting that aside, I'm not sure what to do with this bloke on the right (one Aidan Turner as the young dwarf Kili)


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I learned some good phrases in my last RS lesson; things like “What is your name?” and “How are you?” but damned if I can remember them! Feeling frustrated that I can’t memorize these key phrases I took a few days off. I’ve just started the next lesson and so far so good. I still haven’t mastered those phrases, though, but I think that’ll become ( Read more... )

I'm readying through a webcomic Kri just told me about called Scandinavia and the World. It's usually about Sweden, Norway, and Denmark but other countries make appearances. I found this
American cameo amusing enough to post.

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빵 빵, he shot me down.
빵 빵, I hit the ground.
빵 빵, that awful sound.
빵 빵, my baby shot me down.

빵, read bbang, means bread.

Okay, I thought it was funny...


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I got my visa from the Korean Consulate today. A big, fat sticker in my passport book makes the adventure a little closer and little more real. Though the calendar could slow down a little, please and thank you.

I'm continuing with Rosetta Stone and am one long lesson away from completing level one. It's going well, I think, though I'm having ( Read more... )

Much better! Though I didn't understand some of the grammar points it tried to teach at the end. I could have used an explanation. Hope that isn't going to be integral later on!

It went better the second time.  Being able to hash through the alphabet made a real difference.  It did take me three hours to go through the first lesson but that's because I was writing down vocabulary words and practicing how to say them over and over and over again (found RS has a feature that helps with this).  I also turned the speech ( Read more... )

I'm not even at my employer anymore and the automated punch card system still finds a way to screw me over.

I hate that system.  It would often sit there and "Process my request" for five minutes or more while I waited to punch in or out.  I could arrive on time but because the system took so long it would look like I was late.  Or sometimes it ( Read more... )