Monthly Archives: November 2009

OVEN!

By mattgirod | Published: November 21, 2009

It’s coming, it’s coming!!!! Tomorrow…okay, in two days. I thought I wanted one with a steam function so i could make some crispy baguettes, but paying an extra 200,000won  for a function that I wasn’t going to use that often wasn’t worth it. I had a feeling that I wasn’t really paying for the the [...]

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A Korean Wedding

By mattgirod | Published: November 15, 2009

Get the Flash Player to see this player. var s1 = new SWFObject(“https://media.dreamhost.com/mp4/player.swf”,”ply”,”440″,”360″,”9″,”#FFFFFF”); s1.addParam(“allowfullscreen”,”true”); s1.addParam(“allowscriptaccess”,”always”); s1.addParam(“flashvars”,”file=http://mattgirod.com/wedding_480x360.flv&image=http://mattgirod.com/wedding_480x360.jpeg”); s1.write(“mvcontainer”); It was my first Korean wedding. It was like all the weddings I’ve attended. When I say like, I mean LIKE. It was LIKE I was watching a performance of a wedding. Mood lighting, video cameras all over, [...]

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Ahhh…Nature

By mattgirod | Published: November 7, 2009

My second visit to Naejang Mountain. This was my first visit. This time, in the fall…on the weekend…with the rest of Korea. People really like the colors red, orange, and yellow… a lot. Visit a national or provincial park on a weekend during the months of November or October and you will find crazy loads [...]

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One Month Report

By mattgirod | Published: November 7, 2009

There was a lapse of two days but otherwise, there’s been Korean study everyday for one month.  I have records! It looks like I averaged about one to two hours daily. There was also some time importing/sentence mining that could also be added in. That’s easily a solid one  and a half hours of  reading [...]

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