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Expatrious: How to Teach in Korea in 3 Easy Steps
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May 8, 2009. How to Teach in Korea in 3 Easy Steps. A steadily increasing number of you have asked me how you too can teach English in Korea. I suppose there aren't too many jobs floating around in the United States or something. Well, at the moment there are a lot of "Teaching English as a Foreign Language" jobs in Korea. First, the basics. There are three sorts of TEFL jobs in Korea:. Hagwons (privately owned academies). Next, the details. You do NOT want to teach at a hagwon. Yes, I'm describing the w...
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Expatrious: 12.09
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December 16, 2009. The Seattle Times published. A letter I wrote to the Editor last week. There's many people who are skeptical of human-caused climate change, and many who view Climategate as vindication for their views. This Letter to the Editor is my response to them:. In the case of Climategate, the conspiracy theorists are wearing WMD and may injure us all. They’re generalizing a few pieces of doctored data in an attempt to impede the entire sustainability movement. If we continue to abuse the Earth...
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Expatrious: 03.10
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March 11, 2010. Recently I received an email from a friend explaining how the IPCC made a mistake in their report, “Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”. Apparently, New Scientist had interviewed an Indian glaciologist who'd speculated about the fate of the glaciers. An Indian report had cited the interview. WWF Nepal then cited the Indian report, which was then cited by a writer contributing to the IPCC Assessment Report #4. Expecting perfection from countless contributors each ci...
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Expatrious: 02.10
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February 10, 2010. My Rights are Your Rights. I've just finished reading a New Yorker article. About the furor regarding Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in United States criminal courts. The timbre of the article leaves me with an image of the writer, Jane Mayer, with one hand on her hip and the other pointing particularly at a phrase in the Declaration of Independence. As Amy Jeffress, Holder's national-security adviser, is quoted in the article, "There was no file ...
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Expatrious: A quotidian day
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May 14, 2009. I just got home from school. I walked in, took off my cardigan (which proved suffocating after ten this morning), set a litre of water boiling - to drink later, since the tap water is rumored to be unpotable - rinsed a handful of cherry tomatoes I bought on the way home, opened a Pilsner Urquell and sat down to write. I realize you know little of my daily life, so because today was so average, I find it apt for sharing. Where are you going? Are you a foreigner? For the last four hours of sc...
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Expatrious: 01.10
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January 28, 2010. Every statement should end with a question mark? My friend Ryan Georgioff recently wrote,. Naturally, I can't help but feel this is one big cosmic joke. Have you felt it? That hesitant panic that maybe you've been duped, been done over by Zeus and his Creons? I'm not the first to feel it, I know, but when the curtain falls and Jesus is standing there with uncorked champagne toasting the end of life-as-we-know-it. well, that would just be fucking bizarre. No job, no money, and no real de...
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Expatrious: Every statement should end with a question mark?
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January 28, 2010. Every statement should end with a question mark? My friend Ryan Georgioff recently wrote,. Naturally, I can't help but feel this is one big cosmic joke. Have you felt it? That hesitant panic that maybe you've been duped, been done over by Zeus and his Creons? I'm not the first to feel it, I know, but when the curtain falls and Jesus is standing there with uncorked champagne toasting the end of life-as-we-know-it. well, that would just be fucking bizarre. No job, no money, and no real de...
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Expatrious: Day 106: Notes on a Country
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January 11, 2009. Day 106: Notes on a Country. One of my childhood friends moved when we were teens from Seattle to Muscatine, Iowa. His affection for the home of our youth grew through the years. The longer he was away, the more he found his identity in what he'd left. These days he lives in L.A., but even now he seems to have more zeal for my region than I do. Having been out of the US for 9 of the past 11 months, I've very gradually become fond of the hobbling, optimistic people and complex, chaotic, ...
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Expatrious: 07.10
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July 3, 2010. May the Lawns be Green and the Sun Warm on Your Fur. Tonight our Molly, our dog, who was our family for fourteen and a half years, fell asleep - asleep. I felt sick leaving her on the linoleum floor, as we opened the veterinarian's door and exited, too quickly, undramatically. I wanted slow motion visuals and music with minor chords. My dad wept, but I wouldn't even know how to do that. Out of practice I guess. But it doesn't help me wrap my mind around permanence. That the spaces Molly...
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Expatrious: An update, two weeks late
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January 10, 2009. An update, two weeks late. This is an email I sent on December 26. I didn't have time to post it here as I spent the next week traveling. Then I forgot it. Now, finally, an update, two weeks post. It's still fairly pertinent. I'm drinking a Coke, High Fructose Corn Syrup and all. I just ate a Skippy peanut butter sandwich on the closest thing to white bread I've had in a decade. I must be missing home. I've been silent so much here that now, after three months, whenever I get a chance t...
