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Lemonade
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: South Korea
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 Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: Did you get anything for the Lunar New Year? |
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My employer bought me and other teachers Italian imported oil.
Students gave me hot choco.
Friday, I had a LARGE lunch with friends: traditional Korean food, strawberries and pizza. I was stuffed. How do these Koreans eat soooo much food and still stay so skinny? I don't get it.
Got invited to events/meals for Tuesday and a large Korean party next Saturday.
What did you get? |
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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: Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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my director gave me a case of those vitamin c booster drink bottles
i think that means...
he hopes i'll be less sick in the new year |
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Lemonade
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
my director gave me a case of those vitamin c booster drink bottles
i think that means...
he hopes i'll be less sick in the new year |
Oh I love those! I drink one everyday. How big was the case? |
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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: Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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everyday? ... substitute some fruit !
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| How big was the case? |
i eat enough vitamin c foods to need to urinate away any more so...
i dunno how big... i "recycled" the gift by giving it to a korean friend who, in turn, gave me a "Dove" soap set which I'll gladly use. 
recycle those unwanted gifts! |
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Lemonade
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
everyday? ... substitute some fruit !
| Lemonade wrote: |
| How big was the case? |
i eat enough vitamin c foods to need to urinate away any more so...
i dunno how big... i "recycled" the gift by giving it to a korean friend who, in turn, gave me a "Dove" soap set which I'll gladly use.
recycle those unwanted gifts! |
It's called "regifting" - a big social no no. LOL Darn, I might have traded you for my Italian oil.... but not sure it would have been a fair trade. I looked at the price of that oil and whoa it's expensive stuff.
Sweety I eat plenty of fruit everyday too, especially for breakfast. I'm a vitamin C junkie I guess  |
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xeno439
Joined: 30 Nov 2005
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| Huge box of seaweed. It was nice. |
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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
everyday? ... substitute some fruit !
| Lemonade wrote: |
| How big was the case? |
i eat enough vitamin c foods to need to urinate away any more so...
i dunno how big... i "recycled" the gift by giving it to a korean friend who, in turn, gave me a "Dove" soap set which I'll gladly use.
recycle those unwanted gifts! |
I can't believe you're still on Koje Island, Van Islander. Been 5 1/2 years since I lived there. Anything change besides the spelling? |
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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: Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:19 am Post subject: |
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| shawner88 wrote: |
| I can't believe you're still on Koje Island, Van Islander. Been 5 1/2 years since I lived there. Anything change besides the spelling? |
yep |
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pet lover
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: not in Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:34 am Post subject: |
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I got apples, grapeseed oil, and tuna. Traded the tuna with the co-worker who views fruit and veggies the same way I view meat for the apples and the grapeseed oil.
Also got paid on Friday instead of next week Tuesday when I was supposed to be.  |
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Dawn
Joined: 06 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:04 am Post subject: |
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Pears, tuna and grapeseed oil here. Darn it pet lover, and here I was planning to offer that co-worker my tuna in exchange for his grapeseed oil.  |
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Lemonade
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| Wow! I thought we were the only ones out there to get such oil. So what will you do with your grapeseed oil? There's only so much popcorn popping and potato frying I can do. |
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doublejeopardy
Joined: 16 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:32 am Post subject: |
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A korean plum wine with gold flecks in it, right after I disabused my boss of the notion that I was going to teach, no not be at the school, actually teach, for 10 hours a day for three straight months  |
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Lemonade
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:57 am Post subject: |
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| doublejeopardy wrote: |
| A korean plum wine with gold flecks in it, right after I disabused my boss of the notion that I was going to teach, no not be at the school, actually teach, for 10 hours a day for three straight months |
Wow, that would be some serious overtime pay in my case. I did the math and it comes out to around 5 million won EXTRA over the three months. Not bad . |
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riley
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: where creditors can find me
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| Hardly anything, but my wife got a gift certificate. She thought it was for only 10,000 and regifted it to her sister. Later, my wife finds out that it was 100,000 won. Doh! |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:39 am Post subject: |
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I got 70,000 won.
My girlfriend got a tea gift set similar to this one:
The one she got, thought, comes with two giant packages of horrid mixed-nut tea instead of the jars of ... goo. She was so angry. I told her to throw it away in the academy's trash can, and when she got home her parents said the same thing.  |
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