Friday, July 30, 2004
Some random pictures
This is a picture of King Sejong, a famous 16th century Korean king. He is most noted for inventing Hangul, which is the Korean alphabet. It's a relatively scientific and clever alphabet and can be learned in an afternoon by someone quick and motivated:
This was a building across the street from the statue of King Sejong. It is in a neighborhood called Yeouido. There are several TV stations located there, so there are often famous people tooling around Yeouido's parks (the Han River park being the most notable), restaurants and PC Bangs. One of my students told me about a time that he and his friends were in a PC Bang and played Starcraft with some boy band.
Here are two of my students ... Jihoon (left) and James (right). Jihoon is quiet and very bright. He's not afraid to make a mistake and he learns quickly. James is loud, frequently obnoxious, troublesome, and a constant disruption to the students around him ... and he's one of my favorite students. He used to wear inline skates to class. He's the one that was racing through the school and banged into a desk and said "Ahhh .... SICK!" (sick and hurt both map to the same Korean word ... ah-pu-da)
Here's a closeup of Jihoon's shirt:
Here's another student, HyeeJoong. She and I had class together and it was just the two of us. Her English is good enough that I could get an idea of what kind of person she was and we could tell each other simple stories. She said she wanted to take a picture of me, and I said okay but then I would take one of her. The first picture of her, she was sitting at her desk with a little plastic smile and her hands folded. Then, she leaned forward to get a better look at my digital camera and that's when I snapped this one. We had a good laugh at it, but it was definitely the better picture.
This was a building across the street from the statue of King Sejong. It is in a neighborhood called Yeouido. There are several TV stations located there, so there are often famous people tooling around Yeouido's parks (the Han River park being the most notable), restaurants and PC Bangs. One of my students told me about a time that he and his friends were in a PC Bang and played Starcraft with some boy band.
Here are two of my students ... Jihoon (left) and James (right). Jihoon is quiet and very bright. He's not afraid to make a mistake and he learns quickly. James is loud, frequently obnoxious, troublesome, and a constant disruption to the students around him ... and he's one of my favorite students. He used to wear inline skates to class. He's the one that was racing through the school and banged into a desk and said "Ahhh .... SICK!" (sick and hurt both map to the same Korean word ... ah-pu-da)
Here's a closeup of Jihoon's shirt:
Here's another student, HyeeJoong. She and I had class together and it was just the two of us. Her English is good enough that I could get an idea of what kind of person she was and we could tell each other simple stories. She said she wanted to take a picture of me, and I said okay but then I would take one of her. The first picture of her, she was sitting at her desk with a little plastic smile and her hands folded. Then, she leaned forward to get a better look at my digital camera and that's when I snapped this one. We had a good laugh at it, but it was definitely the better picture.
