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[Scaggs]

Get your haircut the way you want it before coming and take some good pictures of it where you can really see it. Makes getting your haircut so much easier if you can just show them a picture of you with your hair the way you want it.

You don't have to look like the ever-present scruffy ESL teacher.

Cheers

[cbclark4]

When kids you have met before say nice to meet you, please teach them to say "nice to see you again" or some other less monotonous pleasantry.


cbc

[Saxiif]

What and pass up a chance at the Blue Club special?

[joeyjoejoe]

i haven't had a haircut in 7 months.
maybe i can make it 12

[pdx]

Ah. Another Blue Club customer. A friend of mine goes there and gets the #2. I told him that's why his hair looked like crap.

But anyway- Yeah. i tried to get my haircut a few times and having a decent picture of my hair sure would've helped. Instead, it's growing out and I've had to find new things to do with it. I can't wait to have my hairstyle back.

[Sophocles]

I've gotten my hair cut 3 times here - twice without a translator - only my thumb and index finger and me saying, 'This much' and then, routinely, the chop off as much as they want, giving me the Korean girlie haircut - which doesn't really work since I have fine, curly hair and it just made me look like an ajumma.

Over Christmas vacation, I got my hair cut in the Philippines where they understood me... good move and I won't be cutting it again until I go back to North America... and I'm gonna love it.

[mnhnhyouh]

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[saeemon]

cbc[/quote]

I think the cause of this is the Korean phrase 반갑습니다 which means nice to meet you, but is used as nice to see you again, or so I have been lead to believe.

h[/quote]

I think thats ok, but there is something else you are supposed to say first, before 반갑습니다 when you are meeting someone again.....can't remember off have tho.....i think it's just more polite, but 반갑습니다 is fine i think....although i get looks when i say it to people i kinda know sometimes. they say nice to meet you to me everytime i see them...so fair is fair

[andy202]

I have my haircut more often in Korea than at home because it's very cheap and and they are merticulous with the scissors. I have tried out everything; long, short, colored, not coloured, highlighted and so on.

The kids at school say "Oh teachoooor, hair is change".

"Yes," I say, "hair is indeed change".

It's nice to live somewhere vain, where vain is normal, admirable and reasonably priced.

I wonder how a perm would look?

[JMO]

[andy202]

I'm going to pass on the perm.

Kevin Keegan in the 80s?

I'm vain but I'm not stupid.

[pdx]

wait- there's a different between a real perm and a fake perm? A perm is anything done to your hair to change it's straightness/curliness. I have some Korean and Chinese friends who get their hair permed, but you would hardly be able to tell. They add a VERY slight change to it.

My students couldn't believe it when after having my hair straight all the time I let it go natural and it's in very loose waves. They thought it was a perm and when I told them no one of my students pronounced "ahhhh! Nature style."

[xCustomx]

Why not just cut your own hair? I haven't paid for a haircut in about 13 years. I keep my hair short, but it's really easy to cut and I never have to worry about someone else messing my hair up.

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