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rioux
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 Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 2:44 am Post subject: My school put students into the teachers building |
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A couple of months ago the higher ups put some international students from Indonesia (they look about high school age) into the teachers apartment building. The thing is they live right above me so you can imagine the amount of noise they make. When you couple that with the age/condition of the building it can get awfully loud. Fortunately I was able to move to another floor where it is more peaceful.
Does anyone else live in the same building with the students? |
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jm21
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 2:52 am Post subject: |
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| At my uni the teachers and foreign students share the same building. |
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direshark
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| The students here tell me that the teacher apartments are more like "VIP Apartments" - available primarily to teachers, but also wealthier students. |
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water rat
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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| jm21 wrote: |
| At my uni the teachers and foreign students share the same building. |
At my Helen School in Kunming it was like that. Except I lived alone and the students were six to a room. That's why I had two toilets, two showers and two bathroom sinks (but no kitchen sink). I've said in another post. The students'd get home about 9:30 pm, and til 12:30 the ones above me sounded like thy were wrestling, moving furniture, practicing field hockey and having loud drawer slamming contests. And I have no doubt that that's exactly what they were doing. |
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spiral78
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I once lived (briefly) in a house with German university students on the floor above me. Not sustainable - and they were good girls, honestly. But the beer-and-bratwurst songs and attendant festivities when they had parties (every weekend night) made normal living utterly impossible.
Teachers and students don't (shouldn't) mix regularly. |
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jm21
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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It's never been a problem for myself or the other teachers here. Someone might get a kick out of the stacks of beer bottles outside their door or some of the older guys might try to talk to them in the hopes of getting lucky, but nothing major. Some Russian girls vary the eye candy a bit. Maybe a few nights they've been a bit loud but it's just apartment living. Maybe my building has more insulation.
Petroleum university I know they share housing but don't live on the same floors.
Yes, 4 students or something to a room or 1 teacher.
Seems pretty common. |
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Mushkilla
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| water rat wrote: |
| jm21 wrote: |
| At my uni the teachers and foreign students share the same building. |
At my Helen School in Kunming it was like that. Except I lived alone and the students were six to a room. That's why I had two toilets, two showers and two bathroom sinks (but no kitchen sink). I've said in another post. The students'd get home about 9:30 pm, and til 12:30 the ones above me sounded like thy were wrestling, moving furniture, practicing field hockey and having loud drawer slamming contests. And I have no doubt that that's exactly what they were doing. |
Are the toilets, showers, and bathroom sinks in one single room?
Don't they call this type of accommodation shoebox 'capsule' homes?
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| And I have no doubt that that's exactly what they were doing |
Are you sure that they were not practising Chinese gymnastics?  |
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water rat
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| water rat wrote: |
| jm21 wrote: |
| At my uni the teachers and foreign students share the same building. |
At my Helen School in Kunming it was like that. Except I lived alone and the students were six to a room. That's why I had two toilets, two showers and two bathroom sinks (but no kitchen sink). I've said in another post. The students'd get home about 9:30 pm, and til 12:30 the ones above me sounded like thy were wrestling, moving furniture, practicing field hockey and having loud drawer slamming contests. And I have no doubt that that's exactly what they were doing. |
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| Are the toilets, showers, and bathroom sinks in one single room? Don't they call this type of accommodation shoebox 'capsule' homes? |
Well it was a good-sized room for one person and the toilets, showers and sinks were at the front. Not unlike a hotel room. Fine for me, but cramped for six students or a teacher with a spouse and child (generally there's only one child). |
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Non Sequitur
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International students (Korean) were housed in the teachers' building at my last job.
Fortunately they were on ground level and next floor. None of the FTs was lower than level 4.
Noisy but good-natured.
Be interested to find out what the foreign student accom is like at an outfit like Dalian Medical U which really goes after foreign students and teaches a full medical degree in English.
Doubt that the 6 (or eight) per room the Chinese have to deal with would suit a non-Chinese.
Does anybody teach at Lushun - near Dalian?
At least 3 unis have moved out there in recent years. |
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toteach
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Brings back a bit of nostalgia, actually.
One of my first gigs I worked at a teacher's college that was in their first year of dealing with foreign teachers. I signed a contract before Chinese New Year break, so during the break they converted two dorm rooms on the fourth floor into my apartment...quite nice for one person, but the students on the floors below were REALLY upset when I refused to be locked in at curfew. The school decided that to keep their new foreign teachers (there were two FTs living on the floor above me) that they would put locks on each of the floors and leave the stairwell open for their FTs to come and go as we pleased. Great for us, but NOT so nice for everyone else...
(Anyone else remember when they'd lock university students in at night?!) |
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litterascriptor
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| Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| I'm pretty sure they still do at the uni next door to me. |
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