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From my new good friend the OED.

ODu. bezich (mod.Du. bezig), LG. besig; no cognate words are known in any other Teut. or Aryan lang. The ME. typical form was bisi, bisy, bysy: the form busi (with ü = OE. y) occurs in the later text of Layamon, but otherwise the u form is not found before the 15th c.: its prevalence in modern spelling, while the pronunciation is with i, as in ME., is difficult to account for.]

We started school last Wednesday. I began working my assistaintship hours the Wednesday before. I won’t go into too much detail on my GA work but will say that it is challenging and hopefully will be rewarding as well.  JJ started her GA as well and is working in the Math Lab and Math Zone tutoring students.

I am taking 12 hours/4 classes this semester with only one of those classes having tests. I was thrilled about this at first and then I started looking at the amount of work required for each class. 2 of my classes are online and require an insane amount of work. History of English , the one class that has tests, will probably be one of my favorites. This class is going to require hours upon hours of studying but the subject matter and the professor are great. Dr. Hauer is going to be a thorn in my side great motivator.  His knowledge of the material and excitement for the subject matter is contagious.  I have already tried to find out if he will be teaching any possible electives for me next semester.

Besides History of English, I am also taking Reading in ESL/EFL Instruction, Applied Linguistics in Second and Foreign Languages, and Teaching Second Languages: Theory into Practice.  Teaching Second Languages is my other class that I am taking on campus.  I met with the instructor this past summer and am really looking forward to her class as well.  I really like her teaching style and can see that this class is going to be a lot of work as well.

About two weeks ago, I finally ordered my new computer.  I ended up getting a Dell Studio XPS Laptop(I didn’t pay near as much as the one that the link shows, don’t know why that one is so expensive) and really am enjoying it.  The screen quality is so good that my eyes have been killing me.  I am probably going to have to get a screen cover or lower the resolution.

Ever since I moved to Korea, I have felt a connection with the country.  When we moved back to the states, I thought that bond would slowly diminish.  I was extremely wrong.  Not only did we meet some great new Korean friends when we first arrived but have already met a few new Korean students at USM as well.

• Strange connection #1- JJ had her first day of tutoring in the Math Zone when she met a nice young who worked in the zone last year.  He asked if she was Korean and went on to explain that his girlfriend is Korean.  We later ran into them at Walmart and I ended up giving him my Sogang Series #1 book.
• Strange connection #2- I have to read Second Language Teaching & Learning by David Nunan for one of my classes. I bought a used book and opened it to start reading and noticed that through out the book there are notes written in Hangul.  Apparently, a Korean student used it before me.
• Strange connection #3-Go to my first class and guess who is sitting next to me?  A Korean doctoral student who I just happened to have met the week before at a party.
• Strange connection #4-Get an email a couple of weeks ago from a Korean student who needed to a ride to his university.  There are two universities in Hattiesburg and he was going to the one south of town.  He was going to be stuck at his hotel so I offered to give him a ride to his new dorm.  JJ and I drove him to the school, helped him find his dorm, wished him luck, and dropped him off.

We are patiently waiting for our student loan refunds.  Refunds are processed on September the first and then a few days after that our money should be deposited into our accounts.  Our first GA paychecks should come through at the end of September.  Even though the extra GA money is nice, it won’t cover all of our expenses.  We are really going to have budget well.  That should not be a problem as we have almost lived entirely on savings for almost a year now. (I did bring in a few extra dollars doing landscape work and then there were the Korean classes that we got paid for as well)

Han Books- I ordered two books from this online company and was thrilled with their service and speed.  If you need any Korean language learning resources, I highly recommend them.  I will review the books in a later post!

Mississippi to Korea

AKA: Pao Ba Hai Zi
Year: 2003
Runtime: 108 mins.
Country: Singapore
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Family
Director: Jack Neo
Cast: Shawn Lee, Megan Zheng, Yun Xiang, Wenyong Huang, Joshua Ang, Sharon Au, Hui Lu Boon

Synopsis:
Jack Neo, director of 2002′s smash hit I Not Stupid, returns to the director’s chair for Homerun, a Singaporean remake of Madjid Majidi’s Iranian film Children of Heaven. Neo’s reinterpretation takes place in the mid-1960s just prior to Singapore’s independence and revolves around the lives of two siblings: ten year old Chew Kiat Kun (Shawn Lee) and his little sister, Seow Fang (the wonderful Megan Zheng). The two of them live in an old kampong with their parents. With two school-aged kids and a baby on the way, their father tries his best to scrape by, working menial jobs to pay the bills. Although times are tough, life seems to be somewhat bearable, that is – until Ah Kun makes a costly mistake.

While picking up groceries for his family, Ah Kun accidentally loses his sister’s shoes. For more well-to-do families, such a turn of events would be little more than a momentary inconvenience, but for Ah Kun and Seow Fang, the situation is far more serious. Since their parents are struggling to make ends meet, the two decide that telling them the truth would only upset the already shaky balance maintained in the Chew household. Purchasing brand new shoes is totally out of the question, so what can these two poor kids do to remedy the situation?

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Sweet pop sixtet Strawberry Rain debuted with a self-titled album on October 12. Most of the members appear to have been active as session musicians, including one of the vocalists, Lee Woo Jin, that on occasion has been heard in the chorus behind Joe Won Sun. The official blog offers a chance to hear some of their music, as well as watch the music video for album main track Don’t Cry.

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Wonhyoro 1-ga 13-25 isn’t merely the location for Concert in The House, now it is also the name of a project band with members Dong-kyu, Jin-chun, and Eun-huul that usually make up the main attraction for those events. On September 13 the project band presented its self-released and self-titled debut album, for which Hyang Music offers a few samples. Check out the album teaser here.

Of course with a long running concert series that has been filmed, most of the songs on the album can also be sampled via YouTube (please beware that vocalist and arrangement may not be the same on the album):
1. 원효로 1가 13-25 (Concert in The House
3. Trust you (Concert in The House 6)
4. 오랜 친구와 함께 (Concert in The House 6)
5. 봄의 이야기 (Concert in The House
6. 삼청동 카페 (Concert in The House 5)
7. You (Concert in The House 5)
8. 아마도 (Concert in The House 4)
9. 그렇게 나뉘어진 밤 (Concert in The House ?)
10. 원효로 1가 13-25 Hiphop Version (Concert in The House

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Today, October 18, female fronted pop/rock act Island City released its first self-titled full length album. With a couple of EPs behind them, the first album consists of two parts with the first one having an Independent theme, and the second on the comforting theme of Cure Myself. From what I can tell no old songs have been reused, but it seems like 별이 빛나는 날 (starry day) from the God of Study soundtrack has gotten a counterpart in 별이 빛나는 밤 (starry night). Delispice‘s Kim Min Kyu (aka sweetpea) has produced album main track 다시 돌아갈 수 없어.

Esthero got some nice shots of the band earlier this month: 아일랜드 시티(Island City) 101003 춘천 플레이 그라운드

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iRiver Dicple D7 electronic dictionary image cr: gmarket Last week something went wrong with my Korean dictionary while I was reformatting it. It started acting weird and the computer can’t read it anymore. I decided that I’ll take it to the technician and try my luck. ㅠㅠ Unfortunately they’re not  familiar with it’s hardware since [...]
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John Bernadou (1858-1908) was dispatched by the Smithsonian as a cultural attaché or special envoy to the American mission in Korea, and assembled this collection from March 1884 to April 1885. An amateur ethnologist, Bernadou systematically acquired a wide range of Korean cultural artifiacts during a birth of a period of unprecedented open exchange in the Joseon Dynasty. Included in the
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A press conference for the KBS2 drama “Mary Stayed Out All Night” was held this afternoon at the Seoul Imperial …
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On November 1st, while SNSD were making their way to a Japanese press conference, member Sooyoung tripped and tumbled over which resulted in many bruises. Due to this little accident, Sooyoung was unable to attend the press conference.
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