Movember

What is Movember? It is an annual event involving the growing of mustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men's health issues, such as prostate cancer and other male cancers. Starting November 1st and ending at the end of November, many teachers and other people will be growing mustaches in order to raise money or awareness to battle those health issues.

Here are some different types of mustaches:

For most guys, as I guess most of the ladies do not want to have mustaches, try and grow one in support of the other guys in the world who are growing mustaches and to further fight against prostate cancer!!!

Happy Halloween

Today is Halloween and many children will be dressing up and going trick-or-treating.  Some of the costumes the children wear are really nice and well-made.

Carving pumpkins are a common activity  to do at Halloween

Kids arriving at a house saying 'trick-or-treat'

This song is commonly heard during Halloween.  Enjoy Halloween everyone and hopefully you will dress up and go out to a Halloween party!

  

Dog Videos

As all of you students know, I have a dog that I love very much.  Everyday we go for walks around town and he travels with me wherever I go.  His name is Ollie and he is 11 years old.  My friend found him on the street when he was about 4 months old and he was given to me two months later.  We have been together since, and we have traveled all around Korea.

Sleeping on me, while I watch TV.

Out for a walk around town

 

Ollie and his friend Boruma at Dongguk University

Not just Ollie, but all animals I love.  I found some funny videos on the internet of some dogs that I would like to share with you.
The first video is of a dog dancing to Gangnam Style.  I just love how this dog actually seems to be doing the dance.  I would love to see this in person.

The second video is of a dog that seems to be able to do anything.  This dog is so smart.  Probably smarter than most of us!  I just love how he closes the dog and goes outside to collect the mail.  The amount of hours the owner spent training this dog is unbelievable.    

I know some of you have pets and I would love it if you showed me some pictures of your pets and any funny videos.  Please say your animals name and any funny stories about your animal.  

Season is starting for hockey!

Today, Wednesday in North America is the start of the NHL (National Hockey League) season.  My favourite team is the Toronto Maple Leafs.  Hockey is not a popular sport in Korea, but in Canada and it is the most popular sport.  Each year 30 teams play to win the Stanley Cup (picture below).  I am hoping this year Toronto will have a decent team to make the playoffs.  Last year the Los Angeles Kings won the Stanley Cup.  If you get a chance to watch any games on the internet, as it is not on tv in Korea I would recommend watching it.  I have included a good video to show you what happened last year in hockey and to give a brief overview of the coolness of the game.  Enjoy!  GO LEAFS GO!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4--iEOftLZ4&feature=youtu.be

Softball

Many of my weekends in Korea are spent playing softball.  Softball is not played in Korea, unless you play it with the different teams of foreigners in different cities throughout this country.  This past week, three teams, one from Daegu, Busan and Pohang played their 2nd round of the Silla Tournament.  This tournament is a three round series with the best team at the end winning the Kimichi Pot Trophy.  I am playing for the Pohang team and we were 1-1, as we lost to Daegu and then beat Busan.  It was a lot of fun and we had some beautiful weather.  Here are some pictures of my team and from the games this weekend.

Busan vs Daegu (i'm umpiring the game at second base)

Arsenal

Some of you may know that Arsenal is my favourite football team.  This past week they drew 1-1 with Tottenham.  This is a very famous video on Youtube of the Arsenal supporters showing their disgust for Tottenham.  My favourite part of the video is when the main guy says 'Thank you' and all the supporters respond with 'That's alright.'  I hope everyone enjoys.


This video is the same song but with Jack Wilshere leading the charge.  I love that all the Arsenal players sing along with it.

Interesting article

Here is an interesting article that many of you(students) might like.  http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140904000631

Please read and we will discuss this a bit in class.

Week 1 Homework

My Hometown

My hometown is a very small town in Canada.  It is located about 160kms north of Toronto and is situated on Georgian Bay, which is a part of Lake Huron, one of the great lakes.  There are four seasons with a hot and humid summer and a really cold and snowy winter.  Every year in February we have a Winterama Festival in which there are different indoor and outdoor activities throughout the town, as well as big hockey and curling competitions.  One of the most popular events is the toboggan races which involves different teams designing and creating cardboard box racers that will slide down an icy, snowy hill to see who is the fastest.  Some of the designs are amazing and the crashes are really funny.  In the summertime, the weather is nice and hot and many people spend their vacation time on the beaches around the town.  Also, in the summer fishing is a common activity with the bay having many different types of fish.  My hometown doesn’t have any original food, but maple syrup is produced in the area and it is a traditional Canadian food.  The town is very small but is a nice place to live if you want a quiet and relaxing area.

This past summer I travelled to England to attend my graduation for my master’s degree.  The graduation was great and was held in the Great Hall on Birmingham University’s campus.  There were over 1000 people there.  During the ceremony there was a church organ playing as well as a nine-piece brass band.  After the ceremony I went out for dinner with my parents and then we left the next day to travel around England and Scotland for a week.  We went to Manchester, Durham, Newcastle and finally ending in Edinburgh.  While we were in Durham, we got to see a famous brass band gala that happens every year and was fantastic.  The brass bands represent the old mines that used to be common workplaces for that area in the past.  The songs they played were well-known songs that most people sang along too.  My favourite song was ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ which is a famous football song in England and is sung before every home game for Liverpool Football Club.  Throughout my trip I ate traditional foods from both England and Scotland.  I ate fish and chips, Sunday roast dinners, full breakfasts and haggis.  Haggis is a traditional Scottish food that is made of the organs of a sheep, like the heart, liver and lungs and wrapped up in the stomach of the sheep. It was great!  I thoroughly enjoyed my vacation and can’t wait to go on another vacation next year.  

 

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a good summer vacation.  This is my example blog that will we be using throughout this semester and maybe even for the rest of your life.  HAHA.  We are going to use this blog to post our homework and any other written assignments, pictures or whatever you feel like posting.  Also your presentations can be posted to your blog.  Please use YOUR blog anyway you wish.

That's all for now let's have a great semester together.