My Koreans

My roommate is back from Seoul :)

I've gotten a few Koreans to agree to help me learn some useful Korean before I go. I met one of them today and made a schedule to meet twice a week.

Due to unforseen circumstances, I no longer have a place to live in Korea so I've asked my friends there to look around. I'll figure it out :)

Barack Obama's Inauguration

Barack Obama is now officially the President of the United States. Now, when I get to Korea, I can be proud of my home country.

There was a lot of snow on the day of my apartment sale so there were not many customers. I made $30 though, so I can't complain too much. I'm hoping for a bigger turnout at the one in March. Whatever I don't sell then will go on craigslist.com and whatever doesn't sell there will be donated to goodwill.

My TESOL certification course starts this Saturday at 9:00am.

Goodbye Former President George W. Bush. Thanks for trying.

Apartment Sale #1

I'm having my first of two selling all my stuff parties on January 18th from 2:00pm to 6:00pm at my apartment. If you would like to come buy my things, contact me using the box on the left sidebar for the address if you don't already know it. I'll probably bake cookies or something ^^

Here is the requested inventory of my books, CD's, and DVD's (there are also clothes, shoes, furniture, kitchen supplies, etc.):

DVD’s – Originals

10 Things I Hate About You

A Walk to Remember

Big Fish

Body Worlds (from the anatomy exhibit)

Bulletproof Monk

Closer

Cocoon

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

DodgeBall

Dune (Sci-Fi Channel version)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Flash Gordon

Garden State

Grind

Incubus Vol. 2

Inu Yasha (The Movie)

It

Jackie and the 36 Crazy Fists (Jackie Chan)

Kate & Leopold

Kung Fu Hustle

Man Against Crime

Mean Girls

Memoirs of a Geisha

Mona Lisa Smile

Monster-in-Law

Napoleon Dynamite

Ong Bak: Thai Warrior

Runaway Jury

Scooby-Doo

Shrek (the trilogy box set)

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Spider-Man

Stealth

Super Mario Bros.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Faculty

The Grudge

The Incredibles

The Perfect Score

The Princess Diaries

The Terminal

V for Vendetta

Without a Paddle

X-Men 1.5

X-Men 2

Zoolander

DVD’s – Burned

Collateral

Zeitgeist Remastered

CD’s – Originals

“Weird Al” Yankovic – Dare to be Stupid

“Weird Al” Yankovic – The Food Album

Acceptance – Undone

Bob Marley – 3 CD Collection

Capital City Noise 2

Derek Zott – On the Mend

Eths – Autopsie | Samantha

Franz Ferdinand

Gary Jules – trading snakeoil for wolftickets

Hot Hot Heat – Elevator

Ibex/Millionaire’s Club - Split EP

Incubus – Fungus Amongus

Incubus – Light Grenades

Incubus – Make Yourself

Incubus – S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

Jack’s Mannequin – Selections from Everything in Transit

Linkin Park – [Hybrid Theory]

Lostprophets – Start Something

Measured in Angles

Men As Trees – Warred on by cranes

No Doubt – Return of Saturn

No Doubt – Rock Steady

Pink – Missundaztood

Rock Against Floyd

Seventh Echo – another generation EP

Social Code – a year at the movies

Star Wars Return of the Jedi Soundtrack

Tha Grand Alert

The Killers – Hot Fuss

The Kinison – What are you watching

The Kinks – It’s the Kinks

The Lion King Soundtrack

The Noise of Summer

The Stills – Logic Will Break Your Heart

The Strokes – 12:51 (single)

The Sunstreak

They Might Be Giants – Flood

This Is Me Smiling

Tooth and Nail – Solid State

Warped Tour ’06 Compilation

CD’s – Burned

Too many to count~ mostly in the rock/alternative/punk genre

Cookbooks

Better Homes and Gardens Cooking for today: Vegetarian Recipes

Betty Crocker Italian Cooking

Grill by the book – Chicken and other Poultry

Let’s cook Asian

Rachael Ray Express Lane Meals

The best of Martha Stewart Living – what to have for dinner

The Busy Cook’s Cookbook

The complete book of Japanese Cooking

The Eating Well New Favorites Cookbook

Books

Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi – From Emperor to Citizen (the autobiography of the last emperor of China)

Ballard – Empire of the Sun

Collins – The Moonstone

Cummings – Korea’s Place in the Sun

Dell – Great French Short Stories

Dial – The Golden Argosy

Edgeworth – Castle Rackrent and Ennui

Forster – A Passage to India

Ghali – Beer in the Snooker Club

Goldblatt – Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused

Hamid – The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Hamilton – Mythology

Herbert – Children of Dune

Herbert – Dune

Herbert – Dune Messiah

Herbert – Eye

Hull – The Sheik

Kim – Lost Names

Lamb – Tales from Shakespeare

Lee – Modern Korean Literature

Lee – Native Speaker

Lu Hsun – Selected Short Stories

Morris – Modern Japanese Stories

Reiland – Get Me Out of Here

Silverstein – A Light in the Attic

Silverstein – Falling Up

Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends

Tulin – Aardvarks to Zebras

Velde – Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird

Vera – Without a Name and Under the Tongue

Reference and Language Books

Garnier Paris – dictionairre de Poche (pocket French/English dictionary)

Harbrace College Handbook Tenth Edition

Langenscheidt – Basic German Vocabulary

Langenscheidt – German in 30 Days

Larousse Student Dictionary (French-English, English-French)

Learn French the Fast and Fun Way

Merriam-Webster Desk Dictionary

Oxford - The Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English Second Edition

Pocket Oxford Duden German Dictionary Revised Second Edition

Practical English Handbook

Practical English Workbook

Random House Pocket Thesaurus

Schaum’s French Grammar Fourth Edition

Schaum’s German Grammar Third Edition

Webster’s New World Compact Dictionary of American English

Happy New Year Everyone!

Finally, one of the most difficult years of my life is over! Here's to a new year full of adventure surprises, and new difficulties which I can turn into adventures! What's your resolution?

My resolution is to fight back next time someone tries to take advantage of me. It happens often, and the old me almost begged for it, but now I've realized that it's one of the major contributors to how much I hate my life. So, this year if someone asks for an outrageous favor they will get a "no". Along with that New Year's resolution comes my ever-present commitment to making the lives of those around me just a little bit better in any way I can; so balancing the two in a less self-destructive yet equally productive way should be an interesting feat to say the least! Basically, I love making people happy but this year I resolve to make other people happy in a way that doesn't make me unhappy anymore. This way, this year with all its changes will not have the same pain as the last 20. I am my own bodyguard now :)

TESOL Certification Course Registration

I registered for my Oxford Seminar TESOL certification course the other day. By mid-February, I'll have my English teaching certification s I can earn money in Korea while I'm in school.

I've also been looking into which Yonsei University courses can transfer to MSU and it looks like with online courses, a lot of begging and bending the rules, and Yonsei courses, I should be able to get a degree without starting over :) I'll know in Janaury.