I Have Not Dropped Off The Face Of The Earth

Published on March 13, 2007 By chiprj In Blogging

Just a quick note. I am in Korea. I'm living in probably the least wireless accessable area of the capital of one of the most wired nations in the world. HAHA! Oh well, I'm having fun with all the studies and the other students that came with me. I'll update more later when I can jack a signal and I have more time. Just working on some coffee and watching the passerbys do double takes when they see five Americans looking out at them in an area that doesn't get our kind of crowd too often!

Be good, JU!

Comments

Trudygolightly

on Mar 13, 2007

Hello, Godspeed, and enjoy!

Said a pic if and when ya can.

Dr Guy

on Mar 13, 2007

I hope you can at least get March Madness!

chiprj

on Mar 13, 2007

Hmmmm... pics, I'll have to see what I can do about that. Maybe I'll hit Starbucks tomorrow and ask about their wireless there. When I went the other day, they had a sign up about wifi, but I couldn't connect. I wasn't staying long, so I didn't ask if I needed a log in or anything though.

pseudosoldier

on Mar 13, 2007

Glad you're having a good time. When I saw the title followed by, "I'm in Korea," I got confused even though I half-remembered that you said you were heading there with students.

I think it's interesting that DLI is doing these immersion trips now. I hear they're sending some lucky Arabic linguists to Egypt, too. Are they sending KP linguists who are slated to go to Korea on their first assignment to Korea for language immersion? It almost seems wasteful. But, having never gone through an immersion program (except for that time in Wiesbaden, but that was for Faux-German), I can't really speak to their effectiveness.

SSG Geezer

on Mar 13, 2007

Yonsei??? Or one of the womens colleges?
Lucky you.

chiprj

on Mar 14, 2007

Are they sending KP linguists who are slated to go to Korea on their first assignment to Korea for language immersion?

The students still don't know where they are going at this point. Some of them are air, though, and will be headed Okinawa, at best. The ground linguists will likely end up at Osan, though.

Yonsei??? Or one of the womens colleges?

Korea University. It's on the north side of the city and it does have it's fair share of cold weather-short skirt wearing students, though!

Junielass

on Mar 14, 2007

Glad to see all is well with you and your students and it is also nice that you have dropped off the face of the earth.

I miss your stories : (

Take care : )

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