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April ... FOOLS!???

(The comedic journey to Korean Platinum,Try #1. Too hilarious and AWFUL to not share with the internets. The hairs lady says it takes Asians 3 or 4 bleach treatments to get their hairs as light as I want mine, though I suspect she's just being nice. She says it will be there after Try #2, happening tomorrow after a full day of kids & adults gasping, hiding shocked grins behind hands, and then assuring me how beautiful it is. Actually, the kids won't bother with all that politeness. They'll just point and laugh. Too bad this sight to make eyes sore isn't a reward for a class doing really well on something. I imagine it would be pretty fantastic to be The Korean Students Who Made the Foreigner Bleach Her Hair. Or something equally as catchy. ha. ha. ha! Where o where is my salon goddess cousin when I need herㅠㅠ. )

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Complimentary manicure while we heat-set chemicals to irreversibly damage your hair!!

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9/11/2009 (that's November 9th). 20 years ago, East and West Germany became one.

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The beach and jetty and blocks and parkas and grappitis and Nisha in den Haaaaag.

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Indeed, another from Europe. All the b&w and colorless scenery of a concrete jungle winter is hurting mine eyes. This one is at a library we patronized not enough times in The Hague.

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Nope, not Korea. But this photo is one of my favorites from our traipse across the Europe in Fall of o9. D ting remind me of d Carriacou dey bad bad bad boyy!

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I can only see vertebrae.

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Ah, the resulting disorder of English titles and authors arranged by Koreans. Or, kids rifling through and putting them back willynilly.

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Wahoooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Olivia.

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Tiffany, William, Jessica.

I played no part in the English-naming of these pupils.

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Bella-ella-ella-ella

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Alice (the lovely who wrote me the letter a few months back) & Betty.

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Soul. Steven. James. David.

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Momo & Tom are super stoked to graduate from kindy and begin the rigorous life of a Korean child, growing up in various hagwons and...studying. Then staying in Ama and Apa's apartment into their 30s while slaving away in corporate Korea, spending their money on designer bags and surgery for more Western-looking faces, and pickling their livers with formaldehyded beer and soju every night to escape. Yay Korea.

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Pretty!

Thanks NOAA & NPR.

and

Deepest condolences to the victims & their families.

Hi Mom (& her concerned coworkers).

We're fine over here in that lil country west of Japan.

Stop callin me at 7 am on Saturday!

You can rest easy.

Big love from Corea!

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I think someone dropped their keys. A thoughtful stranger rested them on the rail for me to find and experiment.

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