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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Congrats....I hope the toilets are working and that you see some cool things while you are there. |
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I hope the toilets are working and that you see some cool things while you are there. |
If the toilets aren't working he might see some rather uncool things...  |
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waggo
Joined: 18 May 2003
Location: pusan baby!
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Whats the money like? |
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Monty_
Joined: 16 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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This is amazing! Have a great time mate - im sure the experience will be something to remember.
Couple of things i was thinking:
1) I hope you like your own company, as I would guess it's going to get pretty lonely/boring after a while with the lack of entertainment options/socialising/books etc
2) You will genuinely be one of the FEW people in the world to have an experience like this. North Korea will be history soon enough, and nowhere else in the world is that isolated, so you will have experiences that hardly anyone else will be able to share or replicate. Thats pretty amazing in my opinion.
3) Can you write? Because if it was me i'd be setting up a book deal now.
4) Will you have a permanent government guard/guide/official watching over you?
Finally, good luck and have a great time! |
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 12:43 am Post subject: |
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| North Korea, the only place where dating with the local as is difficult as dating in Saudi Arabia...unless you stay FOREVER! |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:17 am Post subject: |
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| Whiner, I can't wait to hear your report and impressions of the country on here! Make sure to let us know how it goes/went afterwards, yes? And if you can possibly manage it, photos!!!! |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:56 am Post subject: |
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congrats and watch what you say. Making an off the cuff remark north side will have far greater ramfications there to say the least. Also do the DMZ tour, it would be interesting to see it fromt the other side.
CLG |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:09 am Post subject: |
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Well good luck with that. Hopefully you're a pretty sane and level-headed person who doesn't need antidepressants or whatever. I can hardly imagine life up there. I wonder how much of it you will get, or be allowed, to see. Wonder how many other foreigners are up there teaching English. I'd say watch out for cleanliness of food and water, wouldn't want to get too sick. Guess you'll need to bring whatever you can, I'm sure it's hard to find almost anything. Not a fast food junkie are you?  |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:18 am Post subject: |
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WWHWOWHWOWOWOWO! You never told me about this last weekend! Whaz up!?? Wow! Sounds cool!
Can you handle being out-of-touch with your gf that long? Wow!
Can't wait until you get back and you give a full report! Wow! Wonder if they'll let you take in a digital camera?
DAMN! |
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The Great Wall of Whiner
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: Middle Land
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:19 am Post subject: |
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Monty_ wrote:
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| 1) I hope you like your own company, as I would guess it's going to get pretty lonely/boring after a while with the lack of entertainment options/socialising/books etc |
There is actually a modicum of an ex-pat community. Some Germans, British, French, Mongols, Japanese, Russians, Chinese, etc. There is a nightclub with (surprise surprise) Mongolian girls catering to the foreigners. There is also an import store run by a Russian company that has some European and Japanese goods.
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| 2) You will genuinely be one of the FEW people in the world to have an experience like this. North Korea will be history soon enough, and nowhere else in the world is that isolated, so you will have experiences that hardly anyone else will be able to share or replicate. Thats pretty amazing in my opinion. |
I'm not so sure. I have met people who have been to North Korea, admittedly on 3-day and 5-day EXPENSIVE-as-sin holidays.
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| 3) Can you write? Because if it was me i'd be setting up a book deal now. |
For all I know, it might be one of the most boring books in the history of literature.
Monday: Taught and slept. Also ate.
Tuesday: Ate and slept after teaching.
Wednesday: Had a good night's sleep after classes and dinner.
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I will have a "custodian" during the weekday, and two "custodians" on weekends. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:24 am Post subject: |
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Scan the stamp in your passport and make that your new avatar!
Oh, shouldn't your diary also include:
4. Jumped in bed with another Mongolian???
If you do want to learn any Mongolian, I'll give you Nina's number. I know one word: "Say-no" means "Hello".
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:25 am Post subject: |
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| Somehow I imagine his Internet access will be rather, ah, limited. |
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The Great Wall of Whiner
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: Middle Land
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| Derrek wrote: |
Scan the stamp in your passport and make that your new avatar!
Oh, shouldn't your diary also include:
4. Jumped in bed with another Mongolian???
If you do want to learn any Mongolian, I'll give you Nina's number. I know one word: "Say-no" means "Hello". |
I never said anything to anyone because I felt it was a super long shot and not worth mentioning. I applied for a few star positions a few months ago, mostly at embassies here and abroad. One was a waiter position in the Spanish Embassy in Seoul. Another was a "Good man Friday" position for an Ambassador.
Now that I have been offered the position in principle, I have to get some time off work to do my interviews, which should be a kettle of fun.
As for the stamp, I do not know if I will get a stamp before or after I leave here. I do know that as an almost certainty I will have to go to N.K. via China.
As for internet, I WILL have access with the embassy, but limited. There are hundreds of little pieces of metal in space that relay information all over the surface of the Earth.
As for my girlfriend....I will remain faithful to her. I love her. No Mongol girls for me! |
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posco's trumpet
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: Beneath the Underdog
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Medic
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:44 am Post subject: |
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Whiner, did you have to interview for the job in the U.K? Remember seeing a posting for a job in NK elsewhere through the British Counsel. They wanted to interview the candidates in the UK. Maybe this didn't apply to you.
They also have a casino for foreigeners in Pyongyang |
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