Where’s My Taxi?

From Jeju Province’s Official English Tourism Website:

Provincial government to extend hours of operation for public buses Transportation might be a headache for many commuters Wednesday as local taxi drivers plan to take part in a nationwide strike. The provincial government says that taxi management and unions will hold a rally in Seoul on the twentieth and that Jeju drivers will take part in the collective action. It has therefore extended the hours of more public buses. Officials are also advising public offices, schools, and businesses to relax rules about employees driving their own vehicles to work. More than 200,000 industry representatives will assemble in Seoul Square Wednesday to demand the stabilization of LPG prices and an increase to taxi fares.

Link is here:

http://english.jeju.go.kr/index.php/contents/community/news?act=view&seq=4380&bd_bcid=english_movie

This hasn’t affected me yet since I’ve been using my legs and my motorgolf cart to get around between home and work. However this could become a serious problem over the weekend, especially if its raining, which will render my skate board inoperable. Stay tuned.

Here’s another article about the taxi strike:

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/06/117_113470.html

I tried to get a lift back to my apartment tonight but the only person offering a ride was this guy:

In other news: I have a new stray dog! She’s been following me around my flat (outside). I put some sunflower seeds and water outside my door and made a little doggy bed with what I could. But I’m not sure if I can take care of a pet right now.

There’s a cute girl who works at “A Twosome Place” (coffee chain) right near my hogwon. She was very helpful and I was really appreciative and then I got really fancy and complemented her on how well she spoke English.

Her response: “Well, yeah, that’s because I’m from Brooklyn.”

Oh

I’m also a DJ now. Airirang Radio is an English radio station that operates out of City Hall in Jeju, and they do a segment called “wanna be a DJ” where somebody has a six-minute segment.

I brought back an old favorite, “musical news”, which was my college radio program where I highlighted some news headlines and played songs related to them. This week I touched on the fact that Asians have surpassed Hispanics in immigration to the USA (Quick, Obama, build a border fence along the international date line!!!) and the fact that South Korea is the fastest aging nation in the world (not oldest, just fastest aging. No wonder I have grey hairs in my beard).

The segment airs on Saturday. I don’t think it went very well, I didn’t give myself a script, I just sort of mumbled crap about the news and then played my songs. Oh well, it’s still a really fantastic opportunity for foreigners and it brought back some good memories.

At school, my middle school kids think that if they don’t bring their pens, pencils, books, or backpack to school, they don’t have to do anything that day. They aren’t entirely wrong. There’s only so many teachers copies of “Animal Farm” I can hand out.

Another girl came to school wearing my all-time favorite non-Mets baseball hat, with the old school Milwaukee Brewers logo:

Check that shit out, it’s a glove AND the letters “m” and “b”. This girl doesn’t like baseball so she probably can’t identify either one.

Where’s my taxi?