A Meme For You, A Meme For Me

Let’s do a meme.

1. What curse word do you use , the most?
I don’t think I curse that much. If I do it’s probably crap. Or shit. Sometimes I use fuck for emphasis or because I think it makes me sound cool. I’d like to use some curse words that don’t relate to the human body but I’m not that creative :/

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SMAP X SIOB

Friday was a bit of a strange day. I woke up feeling rather sad. It seemed that EVERYONE was gone. I counted in my head and concluded that over 10 people that I care about were nowhere near me and felt very alone. Damn the lot of you and your foreign-ness….even Done-bloody-gal!

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Weekend Round-Up Part One

Well silly old Hairy-Armpits (Mrs Sung) is a bit miffed that I didn’t get home until midnight on Monday. I tried to explain that I couldn’t exactly say no when the President of the Korean Kumdo Association invited me for tea, but she doesn’t understand. *sigh* I think I’m having my rebellious-teenager era now. I’m so misunderstood! *revs up motor-cycle*

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No More Soju….

First of all, a medical update:

1 – my eye is 100% healed. The “infection” lasted about 3 days. I still think it was a burst blood vessel (but I’ll be keeping those eye drops ;) )

2 – For the first time in about 2 months, I don’t have any purple skin on my feet! ^^ Screw you Cork! I’m delighted I won’t be training on your rough floor this weekend!

So set your minds at ease people, Siobhán is healthy.

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It Was The Best of Times, It Was The Worst of Times

Today was the halfway point of my time in Korea. It began as the worst day ever, but ended as one of the best.

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I’m Aliiiiive!

…but using a Korean keyboard so forgive any mistakes.

Today is Saturday morning, my first full day. We going to an island for a holiday, whatever that entails. Probably hiking. And getting laughed at and stared at. You should have seen the reaction when I said that I had a bikini with me!

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A Question of Sushi

I know that Ireland is neither the biggest nor the most glamorous country in the world.

However, I was not prepared for this little gem taken from my phone conversation with my coordinator, John, this morning:

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Hajime!

What have I gotten myself into?!?!

In less than 48 hours, I will be en route to South Korea for a month of homestay, teaching and…stuff.

Oh crap.

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