“Hey Wyatt, lately you’ve been posting a lot of pretty lengthy jazz. What’s been up?”
Ah you’ve noticed. You see a couple weeks ago 유림’s (man that looks weird…let’s use U-rim’s instead) mother came up from the sticks that are U-rim’s hometown and is now staying with her…sometimes. So for the past two weeks or so I’ve been flying solo most days, which accords me a lot of time which I spend living it up like a bachelor with strippers and drinks and fast cars…oh wait I’m not Vin Disel; I spend it studying, watching movies, reading, and writing insane nonsense here (drunken movie reviews, outlines to quasi-academic papers about monsters, lengthy rules and regulations for escalators, and the like). So that’s why there’s a lot more content as of late. When If U-rim’s mother ever leaves I’ll be back to one post a day or so…and they’ll probably be shorter and contain more typos. Anyhow I’ve got a wacky story that could only come from a Korean school for you, so enjoy.
Today one of my classes read a story which featured the line, “He was a famous dog.” The students didn’t understand what “famous” was, so I explained it to them (actually I just said “유명하다” which is Korean for “to be famous”), and I then went around and asked students about various famous people.
“Who is a famous singer?” “Who is a famous soccer player?” “Who is a famous ‘gag man?’” “Who is a famous baseball player?”
Each of my questions was answered with one or two names. “Boa is a famous singer.” “Seven is a famous singer.” For some reason of the students asked, “Who is a famous gamer?” I said I didn’t know, and posed the same question to the class who blasted through a million names.
“Wyatt, What’s a gamer?”
Good question buddy. Gamers are professional video game players. Here in Korea that usually means professional Starcraft players, but based on the various game channels I have there are gamers who focus on other games (Counter Strike comes to mind). So we have a class of 3rd and 4th grade boys who could name one baseball player only after I’d nearly said the entire name myself (Park Chan-ho if anyone cares), but knew the names and ranks of entire Starcraft league clan rosters. What the crap is that?
