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		<title>Writings from Torreon, now up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I promised that I would re-post my writings from Mexico.  Well, today is that day.
Here is the link.
http://writingsfromtorreon.wordpress.com/
Also, I&#8217;m adding this link to the &#8220;Backstory Section.&#8221;
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		<title>Monday the 11th</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Authors Note: This is my last post about Korea.  I am moving to Mexico.  I will probably start another blog, and when I do I will let you know.  In the meantime I will continue to write for instablogs, if you want to read more of my work.)
Strange thoughts on this night [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingalongtherailways.wordpress.com&blog=1530627&post=399&subd=walkingalongtherailways&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A few random notes before closing up shop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- So, this will be probably my second to last post here.  I leave for Mexico this week where I&#8217;ll teach high school writing and literature.  I really hope they speak decent English because I&#8217;m not quite ready to spend another year sucking at a 3rd language.  Plus they don&#8217;t give me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingalongtherailways.wordpress.com&blog=1530627&post=397&subd=walkingalongtherailways&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Shot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew P</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the final discussion I’d ever have with my co-teacher we decided to drink a little bit.  Obviously.  Already a few bottles of Cass littered the table and steam rose off the grill as we placed another slice of meat on the kalbi grill.  She was telling me I did a good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingalongtherailways.wordpress.com&blog=1530627&post=393&subd=walkingalongtherailways&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Past Korea: Series Wrap Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew P</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it’s time to wrap up the “Looking Past Korea” series.  If you want to check out all the posts I did for the series, simply click the link on the top of the page. During this series I wrote about things that, although superficial, I thought were important; I wrote about things that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingalongtherailways.wordpress.com&blog=1530627&post=385&subd=walkingalongtherailways&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gum Lady</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew P</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don’t concentrate enough the monotonous clunk of the tracks harmonizes with the sighs of the weary worker after a long day at work, melodies with the hum of the fluorescent lights, and is occasionally supplemented by the percussion of a door opening and closing as an elderly woman walks from car to car [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingalongtherailways.wordpress.com&blog=1530627&post=383&subd=walkingalongtherailways&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deciphering Korean T-Shirts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew P</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all had a good chuckle at them walking down the street.  Those seemingly crazy Korean t-shirts written in English that seem to not make too much sense to us not accustomed to the Korean way of thinking.
But I&#8217;ve had a recent revelation.  The t-shirts do make sense.  Of course Koreans know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingalongtherailways.wordpress.com&blog=1530627&post=379&subd=walkingalongtherailways&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not one for too much celebrity gossip and news and stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew P</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[but these are just two things I didn&#8217;t feel like passing up.
First, Lee Hyori proves, once again, that the only thing geeky girls need to do to become super attractive is simply take off your glasses and not carry around books.
Also, the title of her new album is Hyorish.  I spent 20 minutes trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingalongtherailways.wordpress.com&blog=1530627&post=374&subd=walkingalongtherailways&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Korea Battle Royale: &#8220;Red Bean Paste&#8221; vs. &#8220;Things That Don&#8217;t Taste like Adhesives&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew P</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The woman handed me a small cake like ball.  It was bread on the outside with a bit of cinnamon dashed on the top.  Upon receiving it I felt that there was a small hole in the middle, presumably where some cream or custard like substance would be stored, which would provide a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingalongtherailways.wordpress.com&blog=1530627&post=369&subd=walkingalongtherailways&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Loud and Proud in a Society of Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew P</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Korea doesn’t keep statistics on its gay community so it’s difficult to officially tell if it’s growing or shrinking. History seems to suggest that it’s neither. Instead it is simply “coming out,” for lack of a better term.
Korea has an overall “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy when it comes to homosexuality. Sex as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingalongtherailways.wordpress.com&blog=1530627&post=366&subd=walkingalongtherailways&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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