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Talk about when you got orthopedic treatment.

์ •ํ˜•์™ธ๊ณผ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”Talk about when you got orthopedic treatment.์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ์— ๋‚˜๋Š” ์šด๋™์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.  Last month, I was getting some exercise. ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ฌด๋ฆŽ์ด ์•„ํ”„๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.I must have overdone it because my knee began to hurt.ํœด์‹์„ ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ์‰ฌ๋ฉด ์ €์ ˆ๋กœ ๋‚˜์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.I thought that with rest and relaxation, it would get better on its own. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋”์šฑ ์•…ํ™”๋˜๊ธฐ๋งŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.However, it only got worse. ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋ฌด๋ฆŽ์ด ์šฑ์‹ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์•„ํŒ ๋‹ค.There was a constant throb..

24.09.23 An Incident with Neighbors

Not long after we moved into our current apartment, our downstairs neighbor knocked on our door. ์ง€๊ธˆ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ๋กœ ์ด์‚ฌ ์˜จ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ์•„๋ž˜์ธต์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ง‘ ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‘๋“œ๋ ธ๋‹ค.* move into : ~์— ์ž…์ฃผํ•˜๋‹ค* downstairs neighbor : ์•„๋ž˜์ธต ์ด์›ƒโ€‹He asked if we could keep it down at night since they had a high school senior in their family. ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์ค‘์— ๊ณ 3 ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ ๋ฐค์— ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ํ•ด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. * keep it down : ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ํ•˜๋‹ค* high school senior : ๊ณ 3 ํ•™์ƒโ€‹I sincere..

24.09.24 Our “์ž…ํŠธ์˜“ and Parenting Group

We are an “์ž…ํŠธ์˜“ study group that first got started in the fall of 2016. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2016๋…„ ๊ฐ€์„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ‘์ž…ํŠธ์˜’ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * first get started : ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹After delivering our babies, it felt depressing and stifling to just stay at home all day. ์ถœ์‚ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ข…์ผ ์ง‘์—๋งŒ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์šฐ์šธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•ด์„œ, * deliver one’s baby : ์ถœ์‚ฐํ•˜๋‹ค* feel depressing and stifling : ์šฐ์šธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•˜๋‹ค* just stay at home : ์ง‘์—๋งŒ ์žˆ๋‹คโ€‹So, we formed a group where we ..

24.09.25 Coal Briquette Volunteer Work

I recently went to deliver coal briquettes as volunteer work. I found the project through a volunteer website. ์ €๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ์— ํ•œ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์—ฐํƒ„ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ ๋ด‰์‚ฌ ํ™œ๋™์„ ๋‹ค๋…€์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€‹* deliver coal briquettes : ์—ฐํƒ„์„ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹* volunteer work : ๋ด‰์‚ฌ ํ™œ๋™โ€‹Volunteers make a donation of 10,000 won which is used to purchase coal briquettes. ๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ์›์„ ๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ ๋ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐํƒ„์„ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ , โ€‹* make a donation : ๊ธฐ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹The briquettes are then delivered..

24.09.26 Nursing Homes

My 91-year-old mother’s dementia took a turn for the worse this year. โ€‹์˜ฌํ•ด 91์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹  ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ป˜์„œ ์น˜๋งค๊ฐ€ ์ ์  ์‹ฌํ•ด์ง€์…จ๋‹ค. * take a turn for the worse : ์•…ํ™”๋˜๋‹คโ€‹She is taking prescription medication, but it only slows the progression; there is no cure. ์น˜๋งค์•ฝ์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ๋ฐ›์•„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ์ง€๋งŒ, ์น˜๋งค๋ฅผ ๋Šฆ์ถœ ๋ฟ์ด์ง€ ์™„์พŒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.* take prescription medication : ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ์•ฝ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค* slow the progression : ์•…ํ™”[์ง„์ฒ™]์„ ๋Šฆ์ถ”๋‹ค* there is no cure : ์™„์พŒ๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹Caring for m..

24.09.27 โ€‹My Urban Sektches

In 2018, I successfully completed the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Spain. โ€‹์ €๋Š” 2018๋…„์— ์ŠคํŽ˜์ธ์˜ ์‚ฐํ‹ฐ์•„๊ณ  ์ˆœ๋ก€๊ธธ์„ ์™„์ฃผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * successfully complete : ์™„์ฃผํ•˜๋‹ค, ์™„์„ฑํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹Although I have never formally studied drawing, I used a pen to sketch the landscapes and people of Spain that I saw every day while walking this route. ์ €๋Š” ์ •์‹์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๋ฐฐ์šด ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ์ˆœ๋ก€๊ธธ์„ ๊ฑธ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ๋งค์ผ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ณธ ์ŠคํŽ˜์ธ์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ํŽœ์œผ๋กœ ์Šค์ผ€์น˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * never formally studied ..

Household Chores

DIALOG We share the housework. A: Do you help around the house? B: My wife and I both work, so we share the housework. A: What are you in charge of? B: Well, I normally vacuum and mop the floors. I also take out the garbage. A: What does your wife do, then? B: Well, she does most of the cooking. She does the dishes and laundry as well. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ง‘์•ˆ์ผ์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ ์„œ ํ•ด. A: ์ง‘์•ˆ์ผ ๋„์™€์ฃผ๋Š” ํŽธ์ด๋‹ˆ? B: ์•„๋‚ด์™€ ๋งž๋ฒŒ์ด๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์šฐ๋ฆฐ ์ง‘์•ˆ์ผ์„..

24.10.08 Weekend Getaway: I Can't Wait for Friday!

Christina : I booked the Hemingway suite at the Williams Bay B&B for the weekend. That's the one with the hot tub on the balcony.ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋‚˜ : ์ฃผ๋ง ๋™์•ˆ ์œŒ๋ฆฌ์—„์Šค ๋ฒ ์ด ๋น„์•ค๋น„์˜ ํ—ค๋ฐ์›จ์ด ์Šค์œ„ํŠธ๋ฃธ์„ ์˜ˆ์•ฝํ–ˆ์–ด. ๋ฐœ์ฝ”๋‹ˆ์— ์˜จ์ˆ˜ ์š•์กฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉ์ด์•ผ.* balcony (vs. veranda) : ๋ฐœ์ฝ”๋‹ˆ (vs. ๋ฒ ๋ž€๋‹ค)โ€‹โ€‹Brandon : That's great! Everything else in town pales in comparison.๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“  : ์ž˜ํ–ˆ์–ด! ๋„์‹œ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณณ์€ ๊ทธ์— ๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉด ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€.* pale in comparison : (~ ์•ž์—์„œ) ๋ฌด์ƒ‰ํ•ด์ง€๋‹ค, (~๋ณด๋‹ค) ๋ชปํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹Christi..

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24.10.08 Do you have a minute?

Melisa : Sean, do you have a minute? I'm a bit lost with this project. ๋ฉœ๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ : ์ˆ€, ์ž ๊น ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ์ด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ข€ ํ—ท๊ฐˆ๋ ค์„œ์š”. * lost : ๊ธธ์„ ์žƒ์€, ํ˜ผ๋™์„ ๋Š๋‚€ Sean : Sure thing. What's the issue? ์ˆ€ : ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์š”. ๋ญ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? Melisa : I'm not sure where to start. There's so much information. ๋ฉœ๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ : ์–ด๋””์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋„ ๋งŽ์•„์„œ์š”. Sean : It can be overwhelming at first. Take it step by step. ์ˆ€ : ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ฃ . ์ฐจ๊ทผ์ฐจ๊ทผ ํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. * ove..

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24.10.08 It tastes bland

A : Here's your soup.A : ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹  ์ˆ˜ํ”„ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.โ€‹B : Let me try.B : ๋จน์–ด ๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š”.โ€‹A : So...?A : ์–ด๋•Œ์š”?โ€‹B : It tastes bland. I need salt.B : ๋ฐ๋ฐํ•ด์š”. ์†Œ๊ธˆ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”.  24๋…„ 10์›” ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์ž‰๊ธ€๋ฆฌ์‹œ ๊ตฌ๋งค์ฒ˜   ์ด ํฌ์ŠคํŒ…์€ ์ฟ ํŒก ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์Šค ํ™œ๋™์˜ ์ผํ™˜์œผ๋กœ, ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์ผ์ •์•ก์˜ ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณต๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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