Panggu

I recently learned the most important word - banggu (the b is actually an unaspirated p, so it sounds like a half-way p/b to  us English speakers) - 방구.

I also recently learned that there's a way around some site blocking. Should I teach you? Hmm. Admittedly it doesn't work for everything. Last week the school's computers all updated (windows, i assume) and this ruined the flash player - which our textbook's computer program runs from. This not only stopped us teachers from using the interactive software, but then the students couldn't do their homework. Conveniently - the flash was ok for 3rd and 4th grade. I think those youngsters would have cried if it had happened to them. The real problem though is that the province of education has blocked adobe.com and blocks attempts to update existing adobe products. I couldn't fix it. So we had to call in the computer person for our school and she couldn't fix it and they called in an expert. And he couldn't fix it. My co-teacher got them to "wipe the harddrive" claiming that the computer was too slow. It wasn't. So pretty much there's nothing on that computer now except flash - which I'm not sure how she did it, but our school's computer lady fixed the problem (for us... it was later on in the week that the students' computers went down). But that still didn't fix my co-teacher's problem with IE not working with his little fox website (english learning site with cute flash animations). I downloaded chrome and showed him how to use it - and that it would make little fox play. At first he seemed pleased. Later he decided this was "too much work" (to open a browser he is less used to) and says "it should work in IE." There goes my google chrome convert. *sigh*

So I guess we'll see in a bit if the problem is resolved for the students who couldn't do their homework - since today is a co-teacher day.

Oh yeah, the trick is... use https instead of http. Yup. Simple. :D