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Um. Enough said.

Sick.

10 Saturday Oct 2015

Posted by Vicki Hamlin in Beauty in the Dishsoap, Common Sense

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I have decided not to work when I’m sick anymore.

Some of you read that and might have responded, “well, duh,” and some of you might be teachers.

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I’ve been sick for two full weeks, about three days of which I should not have gone to work.  I stayed home one day, slept seven hours of it, and felt zero percent better. But teaching is a job in which I have to do more work to not be there than I do to just go do the work myself.  Even when the insides of my brains are leaking out my nose.  Sorry about those nasty germs, kiddos, but hey – at least you now understand the term “satire”.  You’re welcome.

But not to worry.  I’m not doing it anymore.  When I’m sick I’m staying home.  From now on, it’s my mantra.  If I so much as sniffle, I’m calling it.  That’s called taking care of myself, and it’s something I ought to get on to doing now that I’m in my 40’s.

And like Forest Gump’s mother, that’s all I have to say about that.

 

 

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Speak To Me

27 Sunday May 2012

Posted by Vicki Hamlin in Common Sense, Meet the Students

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My students are supposed to speak English all the time.  It’s kind of a rule. We offer an exclusively American curriculum …

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Love of the Game

23 Friday Mar 2012

Posted by Vicki Hamlin in Common Sense

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At the basketball stadium in Busan, we were greeted by an entire arena full of people chanting, in unison, “K-T, Sonic, BOOM!” It made us happy to come in out of the rain. 

The game was like any American professional basketball game —  if the players never grew to be over 6’2″ and the score never reached 75.  But the crowd, of which we got to be a part, was SO much fun.  It was like a neverending party that everyone was invited to, and one in which everyone participated like it was the only one they’d ever get to attend.  It reminded me of soccer in America.  It’s not the most popular professional sport, but those that follow it are die-hard fans.  Same-same.

Luke missed the game to go to a water park with some friends.  Natalie had the most fun, I think, just watching the crowd and learning all the songs and cheers, which were played one after another all afternoon long, and, for some reason, were in English.  She smiled and laughed the whole time we were there.

Garrett enjoyed the game itself, watching the players, studying them.  What the Koreans lacked in height they more than make up for in quickness, agility and tenaciousness.  They didn’t make it look easy, the way teams at home do.  I love me some Celtics, but the Busan K/T Sonic Boom somehow made me appreciate how hard they were working.  Without pretense.  Without showboating.  Without questioning the officials’ calls.  With none of the attitude of entitlement.

Interestingly, marketing and profit-making haven’t caught on in the realm of Korean professional basketball.  Our tickets cost us the equivalent of $5 each. Noisemakers were free.  There were no vendors, no kiosks, no people with snacks or drinks cruising the stairways selling anything.  Even the small store that sold jerseys and basketballs, that had been open upon our arrival, closed at halftime, and stayed closed, with merchandise just sitting on the shelves.

It wasn’t about making money.  It was about basketball and dare I say it?  The love of the game.  And we loved it.

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