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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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 Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:33 am Post subject: vanislander? |
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Apologies for the personal nature of this post but I wonder if anyone has been in contact with vanislander recently?
We had an arrangement to meet up last sunday but he didnt show nor has he opened a couple pm's I sent his way (my only way of contacting him).
Probably nothing but I'd like to know things are okay with him. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:05 am Post subject: |
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| well? |
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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| Some pretty high tides there in Koje do. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| Still not knowing. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| nudge |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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His sudden & utter silence continues to perplex me.
I dont know vanislander well but I've met him & we've corresponded. I'm a bit concerned.
Anyone else here had contact, or maybe knows where he was based on Geojedo & could check in on him? |
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coolsage
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: The overcast afternoon of the soul
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| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| Perhaps the isolation became too much for him, he hit the wall, took the midnight flit, and is, even as we speak, sitting on Lamai Beach with a fat spliff between his lips. (Oh, no, that's my fantasy.) Seriously, I hope you manage to hook up. |
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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 3:41 am Post subject: |
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funny, that's my fantasy as well.
Vanislander is from Canada, isn't he?
maybe he went back home for a while. |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| VI is from Vancouver Island. I think his father is back home and retired, it may be that he had to go to Canada very suddenly. He is not the kind of person to miss an appointment for no reason and then disappear. Hopefully all is well with him and his family. |
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pet lover
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: not in Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| Did anyone ever hear what happened to VanIslander? |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 3:51 am Post subject: |
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Maybe he fell in love with Geojedo so much that he just can't stay inside his house.....
I hope he is Ok though.... |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Hello! 
I'm back in Korea, back on my feet, and back at it. Thanks to all for the concern.
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| Maybe he fell in love with Geojedo so much that he just can't stay inside his house... |
Quite the opposite. I spent the latter half of April and first half of May in my apartment sicker than a jindo gae in a clobbering sack, at least it felt like it.
The foot I broke jumping off of a cliff in New Zealand refused to heal, became swollen and sore as could be, up the leg and with back and chest pains that resulted in what I considered to be mild heart attacks but which one doctor diagnosed as nerve damage in my leg and spine, requiring expensive tests to be sure, which came back negative; another doctor said I had a series of strokes and recommended exploratory surgery (I kid you not!); a third doctor (after being totally unsatisfied with the first two) said I had a viral infection of the chest which was totally unrelated to my foot and lower leg pain, which was related to but different from the bronchial pneumonia I had at the time (many ESLers get sick in the spring, in April I got something as well). Basically, that doctor said my heart was sick and I'd get better. He prescribed antibiotics and rest, which I did, even though I could only sleep for an hour at a time before pain woke me up, or the constantly paralyzing (falling asleep) sensation in one arm or another, not to mention the foooot pain. I went to work a few days each week, with the director understanding each time I had to stop teaching in the middle of a class, and I often didn't make it to the end of my shift. I spent no time in the PC room and my home computer had a major virus of its own, or some sort of hacking, spyware gunk which kept RPC (Remote Procedure call) as sooon as I booted up, starting a 60 second clock before the computer shut down and I had to pull the plug each time to prevent who knows what from happening, so I had no time to do anything on the computer... on top of all this I had visa problems after my Auckland trip last winter and so was in Korea as tourist, teaching illegally, with a major crackdown on illegal teaching going on, including several teachers in nearby Changwon and Masan, so... the stress of being possibly yanked out of the hagwon at any moment was great, though at my sickest moments I didn't care as much! In hindsight, I should have gone home to Canada but when you're very sick, the prospects of a six-hour bus ride to Incheon, looooooooong flight, followed by another 5-hour bus ride on the other end, is not attractive. I spent so many days in a near prone position on my bed, waiting to heal or die (at least at some moments!). My Korean friends were very supportive and I ate all sorts of weird soups, roots and drank yucky medicinal drinks. Then at the end of May, everything got better! Only the foot still hurt, but due to so much time off of my feet, it seems to have healed more than it did in early spring when I was standing ten hours a day. Now my foot only hurts toward the end of a shift and the foot specialist told me last week that I should wear slippers at work and I've begun looking for more comfortable footwear than the dress shoes I always wore (I wear a tie to work everyday as my self-imposed dress code - with sneakers or slippers? I guess it'll have to be)... as for my visa situation, two weeks ago I went to Japan on a visa run, and last week got my alien registration card. So... this week is the first week that I am back to health and legal, though I'm in a PC room until I take my computer in to get fixed later this week, hopefully.
The worst time of my life is now over. It's like dark clouds have lifted and the sun is shining again. And I'm a rooster, it's supposed to be my year!
To all those who expressed their concern above, come to Geoje for a visit this summer and you'll get the V.I.P. treatment: free hotel at my director's aunt's motel, dinner on me, and a tour if I receive enough notice to coordinate it with one of my adult students and I. Come on down! The beaches are great for swimming and the coastal road is very scenic, plus some touristy sites worth seeing like the garden island (Oedo), cliffs (Haegumgang), natural art park, waterfall into the sea (Jeju doesn't have the only ones!) and, I guess, the P.O.W. camp.
And to everyone else, come on down and I'll see what I can do! It all depends on the timing, but I'm always willing to make the time, if I could.
Wow, I've got my own thread. And I didn't even have to start it. Nice to be missed! But guys, next time, call out the cavalry!  I didn't see a single fellow foreigner for an entire month! Korean friends are great and all, but the only few fellow foreigners I've befriended have either left the country or else live in other cities. Come on down! Seriously. |
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xtchr
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Welcome back! |
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JacktheCat
Joined: 08 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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Ouch! Sounds like you had a *beep* spring. Maybe we should change it from "Derreked" to "VanIslandered". Glad things are looking up now.
I may just take you up on your offer there VanIslander, as Geo-je and Yeosu and that whole little corner of Korea are on of the few places I haven't visited yet and I've got a week off at the end of July while my students take their finals. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:42 am Post subject: |
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VI, I think you got it backwards -- you jump off a cliff to end your woes, not start them!
Good to hear from you again. |
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