Navitastic News December 2011

2. Contents Korean Food !
Korean Food 2-4
Recipe- Seafood Pancake 5-6
Digression 7
Evening Student of the month 8
Countries Quiz 9-10 Do you like Korean food?
The elephant’s family 11-12
If you like or try to eat Korean
food you can eat Korean food.
Boomerang Activities 13
I have some information to give
How Do you celebrate Christmas? 14-15 to you
Daytime Student of the month 16 I’ll talk about 2 Korean
restaurants.
Steve Jobs Survey 17
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3. Go out of
Museum
Haru Fusion soju Lounge is station and go
• You arrive at Town Hall the place to be if you are left then go
down Elizabeth
station then go to after delicious Korean St until the
Liverpool St (walk toward traffic light then
dishes, such as Korean go straight then
Central station) turn left B.B.Q and casseroles. You at Liverpool St
go to Pitt St and then turn can also wind down with a until the traffic
light turn right
left go straight you can
glass of popular Korean then go straight
find the sign for Madang. at Castlereagh
wine - Soju. St.
• If you can’t find the sign 262 Castlereagh
It’s between Kim Sun Try the egg hot pot and the Street ,Sydney
Young Hair shop and the spicy grilled chicken NSW 2000
e-station Internet club.
Karen says
“the sea
food pan
cake is
awesome!”
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4. Korean Seafood Pancake 1. 2. Cooking directions
First, cut brown onion,
zucchini and spring
Before we start, I want to argue about the English name of the food.
onions to a one-bite
I don't know why it is called pancake. I want to say "Korean Pizza"
size. Then, combine
rather, because it has the same figure as pizza (O), crispy, and we
Korean bake flour,
cut it and eat. I want to choice topping which anything I like.
water, little bit of salt
Anyways, the seafood pancake is traditional Korean cuisine which
and pepper in a large
can be cooked easily at home.
bowl and stir them
Qty Unit Ingredients until they are all mixed.
Put the main
1 cup Korean Bake Flour ingredient, mixed
1 cup Water seafood (dry), and cut
vegetable except spring
Put the eggs and stir in a small bowl. Prepare a
1/2 ea Brown Onion onions in the same
heated frying pan and spread olive oil thoroughly.
bowl. Mix them well
1/2 ea Young Zucchini Put one scoop of dough then spread it straight
(The dough is just
away. Add spring onions and half scoop of dough
2 cups Mixed Seafood made!)
on top of the dough then spread evenly so that the
(Prawn, Oyster, Mussel, Squid, etc) sea food can be thoroughly mixed. Pour the stirred
egg and turn it over.
10 ea Spring Onion Tip; Make sure put some olive oil on the edge
when you are frying the dough to prevent
2 ea Egg
splitting.
Salt & Pepper, Olive Oil
3.
P.s: You can buy Korean bake flour at any Korean supermarket. 4.
(About $5)
You can also change the main ingredient (ex. Seafood to Kim chi
or anything you like)
Korean Pancake Dipping Sauce
Soy sauce (3T) Water (2T) Vinegar (2T) Sesame (1ts) Sesame
sauce (1ts), Red Pepper Powder (1ts), Minced Garlic (1ts)
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5. Digression
In Korea, Korean say pancake to Pa-Jun.
Evening
Pa-Jun is the most wellbeing food, representative dish which Koreans
eat on a rainy day. Student of the Month!
The reason being,
Firstly, Korea was an agricultural society, therefore when its raining, Hi, My name is
the good owner used to serve rice wine for the tired peasants.
Secondly, when weather becomes humid, people usually search for an
Mustafa and I’m
oily food. This is due to the fact that as humans feel a sense of from Turkey
depression, blood-glucose level goes down and the floury Korean
pancake allows maintenance of your blood glucose level.
Third, when pan frying the Korean pancake, oil slosh sounds like the rain
and due to the low pressure, smell of burning oil spreads under ground
How long will you study at Navitas? 11 weeks
leaving with a crispy scent instead of evaporating away.
Believe it or not
Enjoy!! Why did you choose Sydney to study? I was invited
as a guest professor to the University of Sydney
What do you do in your free time
I visit museums and landmarks in the city. I went to some
cities such as Canberra and Melbourne
How is your life in Australia ? It is very funny
Talk a bit about your background. I am an
archaeologist and I’m working at the Uludag University as a
professor
What you expect for the future? I will try to create
good relationships between my department and other
departments which are in English speaking countries
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6. 10 a. South Korea b. Germany c. Australia d. Colombia e. France f. Venezuela g. Brazil 9
h. Saudi Arabia i. China j. Vietnam k. Japan l. Poland
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7. The elephant’s family And then he decided to
move to warm place
One day a little because the chicks
elephant walked in wasn't strong.
the rain. They came to ocean
He found foolish and took on a ship.
chicks. with some friendly
They lost their people.
mother so the They enjoyed the
elephant had to beautiful views .
take care of lovely
chicks .
The elephant met a
The elephant could new friend called
be their father and Farrah.
the he loved chicks. She was really kind
They had many person.
more happy times. They talked about
They loved each their dreams in the
other like family. beautiful night.
The spring was coming
But the winter was and the elephant wanted travel
coming and he with his friends.
didn't have warm After then the elephant travelled
house to protect his with his friends by a balloon.
babies. They were enjoy sunshine and fresh
They were hungry air.
and cold in snow He felt happy because he could be a
night. father.
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8. Moonlight Cinema
20th December Let’s go Surfing -
“In Time” Bondi
In its fourteenth season, Ford
Focus Moonlight Cinema
12+22.12
remains the original and Surfing' is a surface water
dominant presence in the sport in which the surfer rides
outdoor cinema landscape. a surfboard on the crest and
Check the Boomerang calendar face of a wave which is
when you can buy tickets for carrying the surfer towards
great value. the shore. Waves suitable for
Limited tickets, buy ASAP! surfing are found primarily in
Maritime Museum
www.moonlight.com.au the ocean, but are also
st $15
21 December sometimes found in lakes and
Come to explore with us part of rivers, and also in manmade
the rough times. We are going wave pools.
into the HMAS Onslow, Oberon You can learn to surf on the
class submarine, 1968 and most famous beach – Bondi
HMAS Vampire, Daring class Beach. Special price for
destroyer, 1956(war ship) Navitas students is $60 per
This will be interesting lesson(usually $99).
13 Extra Special deal - $299 for
experience for everyone.
10 hours of surf lessons +

9. CaMi Insignares / Maria Elena Lara Andressa Durante Vieira / Luis
(Colombia) Carlos Lisboa (Brazil)
A. We spend Christmas with family. A. We visit grandparents’ house to
All family members get together, celebrate Christmas on the night before
have dinner and exchange gifts on Christmas and eat turkey, pernil, farofa
Christmas Eve. Bunuelos and Natilla and rice for dinner. Before Christmas all
are traditional Colombian food we
family members draw lots to decide for
eat on Christmas. There is a
Christmas tradition called whom I am going to buy a gift. Then each
“Novena”, which is a nine day family member secretly prepares a gift
Christmas prayer. During 9 days and exchanges it on Christmas Eve after
people pray appreciating the birth dinner saying what the person is like or
of Jesus Christ how special the person is and etc. We call
this “Amigo Secreto” (secret friend).
Ryo Takahashi Coghlan (Japan)
A. Christmas is not a holiday in Japan so we
do not particularly celebrate it getting together
Karen Haire (Australia)
with family to have dinner or something. So
A. It depends on your family, many Australians originally
Christmas is more like the day for those who
come from a lot of different places so sometimes they don’t
have boyfriends or girlfriends like Valentine
celebrate Christmas. Many people go on holiday to the
day, which if you are single, it means nothing.
beach, and we usually have a family meal, often involving
Nevertheless, all Christmas carols playing on
lots of seafood or a barbeque. Most people put up a plastic
the street, Santa, Christmas decorations in
tree and Christmas lights are really common, sometimes
shops and trees are enough to feel Christmas
people drive around looking at other people’s Christmas
mood for everyone.
lights.
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10. If you had a chance to talk
with “Steve Jobs” before he
Daytime died, what would you like to
ask or say to him???
Student of the month
Hi my name is Ai
Tayama and I’m
from Japan
How long will you study at Navitas? I’m going to study at Navitas
until the end of March next year.
Why did you choose Sydney to study? Three years ago I came to
Australia on a working holiday visa. I stayed for a few months and
realized that there are a lot of good language schools here. What’s
more, there are opportunity to meet people from many different
countries.
What do you do in your free time?. ? I love to spend time with my
friends going out to the pub or taking pictures around the city.
How is your life in Australia? I enjoy living in Australia and feel
more relaxed here than I did in Japan.
Talk a bit about your background. . I am a middle child and I love
my family very much. I played basketball in Elementary school to
middle school.
What do you expect for the future? I expect that my English will
improve! I know I need to make a big effort to be able to speak like
a native speaker.
…RIP Jobs…You did a lot
18 of good Jobs…
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