John's in Korea to do some networking for his school, English Advantage. He kindly took the opportunity to meet up with me on Monday in Kangnam. I haven't seen my good friend since about 1996 (ten years!), so this was fun.
We're hitting lunch on Tuesday as well. Ten years, and not much time to catch up: John's off to Japan on Wednesday for more meeting and greeting, then he hits Pusan, then he's rushing up to Seoul for his 18-hour flight home.
UPDATE: "South Island" now capitalized, per reader comment!
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Capitals my man...capitals.
ReplyDeleteShouldn't this post be called, "My old friend John"?
ReplyDeleteI have two friends named Hans. Neither of them are from NZ though.
I have a friend from NZ called Andy, however...
But, he's not from Dunedinn.
I knew a guy from Dunedin once...
His name was Brendan.
Brendan is incidently my middle name.
None of us are called John though...
Must be a different guy.
"Hans" is etymologically related to "John" (as are "Jann," "Yann," "Ian," "Johann," "Jean," etc.), and John speaks German, so I decided to call John "Hans." Jawohl!
ReplyDeleteI did the same to my friend Charles, calling him "Karl" on the blog (he also speaks some German). Don't mind me; just being weird.
A prof at Catholic University, one Father Sloyan, told me that the Latin name for Kevin is "Coemgenus" or something like that. He pronounced it "koh-emm-GAYness," which was just charming.
I should sign my posts as Coemgenus from now on. Assuming I've got the spelling right.
Kevin
Ah-- according to Wikipedia, Coemgenus is the latinate version of the name of Saint Kevin of Glendalough.
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