I've been teaching job interview preparation classes for the last three months. I'm getting tired of asking people the same old questions provided by my boss, so to spice things up, I'm constantly searching for new job interview questions to ask my students. For example:
How many bottles of soju can you drink?
How many cockroaches are there in Seoul?
If you were the interviewer, what question would you ask?
Why is your GPA so low?
How many push-ups can you do? Prove it.
Want to arm wrestle?
Once I asked my students "If you were a fruit, which one would you be?" Dumb question, I know, but I found it on a website and I was desperate to get away from "What's your biggest weakness?" Here's my favorite response to the fruit question, from a shy student named Jae-Ryel: "If I were any fruit, I would be a lemon because then I'd get the chance to swim in beer."
In a conversation class I taught last month, I asked my students if they had ever had any pets. Key, one of my favorite students, responds:
"Once we had a dog, but we ate. My mom cooked it in soup. When I ate it, I cried, but it was so delicious."
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
Ski slopes at night and my slow-motion pro snowboarding photo
I was actually going really slow in this photo.
I am a walking bruise
It's been two days since I went snowboarding for the first time. I hurt everywhere. My Austrian friend Stefan and I went with a tour group of mostly foreigners to a ski resort called Phoenix Park, located a couple of hours from Seoul. After about 10 minutes of instruction from Stefan, we set out on the easy slope. It was really crowded, and I still don't see how I avoided killing anyone. It took me over an hour to make it all the way to the bottom. I fell time and time again, but it was so much fun! After my third painful time down the slope, I wised up and bought wristguards and kneepads. I couldn't afford buttpads, though I could've used them.
Each time I descended the mountain, it got easier and easier, and by the evening I was only falling down a couple of times per run. I'm so proud of myself, because I went down the intermediate slope a few times, and Stefan was very impressed, saying I was a natural. Maybe he was just humoring me, but it gave me the motivation to keep climbing back on the lift and battering my body over and over again. I have the bruises to prove it, and I can barely move, but it was worth it. I can't wait to go again!
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Why I love Korea...
Cheap haircuts. Today I met Leslie at her hairstylist's salon, where for $15, I got one of the best haircuts of my life. A great guy named Jun cut my hair, plus they washed my hair twice (once before and after the cut) and gave me a scalp massage. Here's a pic of my new 'do.
Monday, January 01, 2007
My pyromaniac pals
Leslie and Alice shoot fireworks at Seoul's downtown New Year's bash. Notice the Korean traditional drums beating in the background.
Lotte World
David, one of my students, invited me to go to the amusement park Lotte World (a big rip-off of Disney's Magic Kingdom) today. It has an enormous indoor area with rides, a shopping mall, a pool complex and an indoor skating rink, plus an outdoor park with even more rides situated on the 'Magic Island' in a manmade lake. In this photo you can see the amusement park in the top level, then the shopping mall and at the bottom is the skate rink.
This is a sign at my workplace, YBM
Doesn't anyone in their advertising department think before they create signs like this?!
Leslie and Alice in downtown Seoul
2007 is the year of the pig, so that's a golden piggy bank in Leslie's hand. Notice the insanely close fireworks in the background.
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