Children of the Polo

Having rich kids as students is nice, however, on Teachers' Day, which was today. We got swag. Swag was gotten by us. Some of said swag was semi-expensive. Also, cake and donuts, many donuts. It was kind of like Christmas, except I didn't know it was coming. Most of the stuff I'll never use, but I'm 1/4 Scottish, so I love free stuff on principle.
Last Sunday I went to the National Museum of Korea. The nice thing about giant cities in Asia is that they have kick-ass subway systems. It's neat to know that there is more stuff than you could ever possibly visit within 30 minutes of your house. The museum is apparently the 6th largest in the world by floorspace, which is an inaccurate indicator, but never mind that. It was OK. It took me 3 hours to walk through. The space and the building were interesting architecturally, and there was a neato Pagoda Garden with 1000-year-old pagodas, but it was no Met.
On Thursday we are taking a fieldtrip to "American City," which is one of several recreations of smalltown U.S.A. that have been built so that people can go there and practice English in an "authentic" setting. It is even stocked with live, breathing white people. These same people I will heckle vociferously because their job is being a phony version of themselves. That's not fair. I do that everyday and no one pays me anything.
12 Comments:
Lisa sounds cool.
What swag did you get? Free stuff rocks... i love being a frugal Scot.
no, i think kids are into materialism from the get go.
Prince George doesn't have this phenomenom because you don't hang out with kids in Prince George.
besides Ralph Lauren is so 1988.
Well, yeah, they certainly like to try and get as many shiny stickers as possible. Sticker trading is a major hobby, and many a child has cried for not having had a sticker shared with her. But I meant (although I didn't specify) materialism in the more complicated an abstract ways. I.e., this shirt is more "valuable" because of its cachet and what it symbolizes, etc., i.e., not just because its colourful.
Speaking of which, the swag I got was:
1 white Paco Rabanne tie
1 Burberry Handkerchief (haha)
3 pairs of socks
1 tea set
1 box of assorted men's skin care products
Several other things that I forget
Why is there a National Museum of Korea in Prince George?
i am curious as to how you looked at one of the tags. i bet it was when one of the little kids tag was sticking up from the back of their shirt. that's always happening with little kids. they are such weenies...
ok, that happened to me today.
also, how do you get a job at american town? see if there are any job apps please.
The tag wasn't sticking out. I just stretched the shirt so I could read the tag.
Actually, the people working there didn't seem to happy be there. One guy I talked to for a while described himself as "Barney" and "poor."
Was he purple?
lol roxanne
dave, quit peeking at the little-kid-tags. you label-whore you ;)
<== that's a winky-symbol denoting that i am kidding.
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