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My Celebrity Look-alikes

My cool celebrity look-alike collage from MyHeritage.com. Get one for yourself.

"Drink water, take rest"

That is what was prescribed to me when I went to the Dr.'s office today. I tried to fight off this sore throat with positive affirmations and mass amounts of vitamin C but it's still sore and red so I paid the whole $3 bucks to go see the Dr.

He takes a cool picture of your throat, tells you to "drink water and take a rest" and sends his pretty reception ladies a prescription to give to me on the way out. We call the prescription the pill "cocktail" as there are about 5-6 random pills to be taken 3x/day. No one really knows what's in these pills but they do seem to work. No questions like are you allergic to anything? Just here you go, take these magical pills and you will feel better!

Oh yeah, I had to pay a whopping $1.50 for the pills. So in total to see the Dr., get some antibiotics and some halls I paid $6 dollars.

More things I don't understand about Korea

While out for my run this morning, after only being awake for about an hour, before even going to work I had 2 incidents that I felt were blog worthy.

1st:
I'm running up this hill and there is a lady walking so silly me, I had to pass her. We're on the road I should mention. So, I pass her on the inside and there were some cars coming and instead of them moving over into the other completely EMPTY lane they decided that they better HONK as loud as they could cause I'm in the wrong. Like WTF! Move over! There was only 2 of us on the side of the road, you're telling me that we'rea taking up sooooo much room. I've noticed this several times, that drivers won't move into the other lane if they don't have to where as at home, you know, if there are people on the side of the road in a car, biking, running, whatever, you move over a bit.
Man, I was pissed off. How can you people annoy me already, it's 7 in the morning!

2nd:
This is the Ying to the Yang I guess cause what I later saw made me quite happy. I'm going along and I see this dog running around ahead of me. I thought, hmmm, a dog farm escapie? After many attempts of me sticking out my hand for him to come over I saw his owner walk around the corner with his leash in hand. What's this!? A man actually walking his dog. And it wasn't one of those shitty little prissy dogs either, it was a normal sized dog.
It was really nice to see a man taking his dog for a walk like they should be.

Nothing can be easy

So I have a great sleep and awake fresh and excited for my Sunday. I start the day off by eating some of the delicious cereal I bought yesterday at Costco and make my way down to Lotte Mart to get the rest of my fresh groceries.
When you enter the store you walk through a security thing that will obviously beep if you've stolen something. Since I have JUST entered the store and have NOTHING in my basket I obviously have not stolen anything nor would I. BUT, the zipper on my sweater had set off the beep. Well, the poor little Korean girl who welcomes you and would have to bust out her super ninja moves on you if you actually did steal something didn't know what to do. When I figured out that it was my zipper, of course I pointed to it, many times. This was not registering. So of course she had to call the manager type person or just the guy who spoke the best English.
He was very nice so I didn't want to have to rage on him but again, they were just not getting it. So there I am explaining that my zipper is what is setting off the beep demonstrating by performing an upper body forward lunge into the security thing setting it off, trying to show them that the ZIPPER is what is setting this off. I'm pretty sure that apes could have figured this out.
So blah blah blah, the guy is so nice and I'm getting very frustrated as you are ruining my lovely Sunday and I just want to go shop!! I finally just said I'm going shopping, it's the bloody zipper and walked away.
Some things I just don't understand. And the funny thing is that I was wearing the winter Olympics sweater my dad had bought me that has CANADA right across the front of it!
hahahhaha!

Camel Toe

I think it's possible that Korean men have never seen a full fledged camel toe on a female before. Not up close and personal anyway. I'm thinking this cause every time I run, I notice that the men keep looking in that general area. Correction, staring! Hmmmm I'm thinking. Why are they looking at my crotch!? pervs.

Then I figured that my tights are probably riding up a bit and they're seeing a little Western camel toe action. To add to it, Korean women don't really "run", at least I have yet to see any woman running when I'm out on mine, so here I am, tall, white, and I look so graceful while I'm running, I have a camel toe and I'm coming towards them. When I put it that way I might be scared and staring too.

They're probably also thinking "you're a girl! How could you possibly do anything except fetch me some Soju, make me some kimchi, clean my house and raise my children!". Oh wait, AND work a full time job as well. How could you even have time to THINK of going for a run.

Ok, I'll ease up.

So yeah, it's just funny.

I'm officially "in training" to run a half marathon on Jeju island on June 3rd so I'm really looking forward to that.

Happy running and keep sportin that camel toe!

Ahh Korean volleyball

So last weekI was officially invited to come out today and play volleyball with the all male crowd. In Korea, at school, volleyball is apparently played with 9 people on the court. We don't rotate and people don't really know what they are doing. In any case it's pretty entertaining and gives me a chance to smack a ball around once a week.

I don't think the male teachers have ever seen a girl that can actually get the ball over the net so I hear a lot of "good good", "nice-uhhhh" and MVP, my personal favorite, with lots of high 10's going around. The other female teachers are on the side lines and are bascially cheer leaders.

My vice principal, who didn't play today, is Mr. Serious in any situation. The guy isn't even playing and he's coming into our timeouts on the court and yelling something. Dude, piss off. You better lighten up or your Soju drinking days will be over before you know it.

So post game there is a table full of food. You're thinking mmm, post game snacks, yummy. No. Post game snacks consist of plates of raw fish and some other disgusting looking meat, little cherry tomatoes (which were actually very good), kimchi, and some raspberry wine. Hmmmm. I like the wine and everything fella's but not after a game. Ohhhhh Korea.

Put my face on this girl and that's me at our school vball games. I stay in the power position and basically just hit, hit, hit. Ohhhhh my aching shoulder!

There's ONE that's safe...

Dog that is. Today I saw for the first time in Korea, a blind man with a seeing eye dog.

A happy, healthy, beautiful dog doing his job. Not chained, being fed rice and kimchi and other gut destroying, ulcer causing foods.

Not collecting fleas and other mites, living where he has to go to the bathroom and sleep, and his hair hasn't been dyed pink or green or any other hideous colors. Just a normal dog that won't be eaten! Unless the blind man dies, then the dog might be left to fend for himself against hungry middle aged Korean men who think that eating him will make them "Strong like Bull" and give them the ability to pleasure their woman like never before with their 2 inch penis'.

But I'm not bitter.

Here's Sloane, aka the crazy dog lady of Mokpo, who I'm sure annoys the hell out of the owners of these dogs (well the one on the left is no longer)??

You might be familiar with Sloane's auntie Ellen, aka, the crazy cat lady. Must be in the genes.

http://www.unchainyourdog.org/

Extreme biking

I thought biking to work and around Winnipeg was bad. Man, I will never complain about the cycling situation at home ever again after having taken my new wheels on the road here in Mokpo. Holy smokes!
In just being out today I had to dodge 3 cars and stop quickly to aviod some asshole from running right into me. Actually make that cutting me off! Bikes on the road have about as much business as those pesky pedestrians. How dare we get in the way and hinder their 100mph speed to get to that next stop light!
Unless they just decide to run that red light. One of my personal favorite moves, especially when you're in a cab and you want to get home fast.

And then there were none

The last fish finally decided to die so I am now fish free. Heartbroken, last night I had to listen how Trish had fish that survived a fire in their house and how the fish at Christa's school lived through the winter vacation (7 weeks) with no one feeding them and that their bowl is completely covered in algae and you can't see the fish and they can't see you!
What the hell! So no more stories of fish.

Exciting events of the week:

* 2 new white guys joined my gym. Yes! More whities.
* Was named MVP at a school volleyball game! hahaa
* Girl at school, meeting me as her English teacher for the first time, comes up to me, stares at my face and says, Oh teacher, BIG nose! Yes thank you for pointing that out to me, I hadn't noticed. I felt like saying Oh student, flat nose and small eyes!
* Am out riding my bike trying not to get hit by cars.
* Found a great new restaurant.

Pretty excited I know!

Another one bites the dust

Hi, I'm Sloane's second dead fish. I am too lazy to keep breathing so I think I'm just gonna pack it in. Screw this, I can't be bothered.
What's with these fish! This guy only lasted a week! Now the other guy is left to swim around in circles and hide in the cup all by himself!
I'm taking a break from these lazy fish after the other one dies, as I'm sure he won't last much longer either.

Aside from the fish, I had a fun time keeping the birthday tradition of 10 pin bowling going last night. Although I did lose to Brent, it was still a great time.
After bowling, we went to see what is now in contention with Full Throttle as the WORST movie ever and that is, Hannibal Rising. Please do not waste your time on this piece of crap. How do movies like this even get made!?
Back to school tomorrow to start the second term until mid July. Hopefully this term will go as well as the first and I'm definitely looking forward to spending the summer in Canada.

Down with E-Mart fish and Hannibal Rising.

Flushhhhhh

Well, after not even having my fish for a week he died. I'm blaming it on that evil E-Mart fish I bought to keep him company. He killed him! So I had to go back to E-Mart and buy another evil fish so I'm hoping their evilness will cancel out and they'll live a long time.

Never had to flush a fish down the toilet before!

EVIL FISH IN THIER BOWL.