My Coffee is a Hard Pill to Swallow
I’ve never met anybody with a lower tolerance for caffeine than me. My taste buds also rank pretty low, so I drink the sludgiest, unsweetened, and cheapest java.
I’ve never met anybody with a lower tolerance for caffeine than me. My taste buds also rank pretty low, so I drink the sludgiest, unsweetened, and cheapest java.
"I hope you spend all your Canadian dollars on shitty booze and eat shit on your way out of here. Good night and it was not nice meeting you."
Korean kids nickname just about every teacher. Like most nicknames, they just pop up. Maybe your nose is big, your hair is yellow, or you talk with a stutter.
Have a very merry Home Alone Christmas in Korea.
I've never forgotten how stories capture people's attention, entertain them, make them happy or sad. So when I grew up I wanted to be only one thing: a firefighting ninja dinosaur astronaut. And a writer.
Korean dudes differ from American dudes. I'm getting used to it, but that doesn't mean I don't secretly judge. Here are some big differences I've noticed.
<p>If you've been paying attention to your friends' FaceBook walls, you know that there's been some pretty sad stuff going around. First, an earthquake in Japan. Then a tsunami. Afterwards, a volcano. On top of that, a nuclear effing meltdown happened in the Land of the Rising Sun. Absolutely terrible and thousands are dead while even more are without homes. </p>
<p><img src="/files/u46/DSCN4380.jpg" alt="(a rare action shot of me actually teaching)" width="400" height="300" /><br /><em>(A rare action shot of me actually teaching)</em></p>
<p>Every Halloween I judge people and their costumes. This year I'm nine days late because it's taken that long for me to get over the Halloween beer, soju (Korean liquid death), and whiskey binge I encountered.</p>
<p><img src="/files/u46/DSCN4322.jpg" width="400" height="533" /><strong><em> <br />(Before reading my tips on how to make your tallywacker bigger)</em></strong></p>
<p><img src="/files/u46/oct_31_09_2_021.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /><br /><strong><em>(Beam me up, Scotty!)</em></strong></p><p>It's the first week of October and you know what that means...only two and a half months to shop until Christmas! Also, you should already start looking for a Halloween costume. And like<a href="/columns/nathan-degraaf"> Nate Degraaf</a>, I'm here to help.</p>
Last weekend in the ROK (Republic of Korea), well, rocked. I did a lot of things. Saw a lot of things. Drank a lot of things.