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| How long do you generally stick with one ESL gig? |
| less than a year |
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12% |
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| a year |
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20% |
[ 5 ] |
| less than two years |
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8% |
[ 2 ] |
| two years |
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29% |
[ 7 ] |
| more than two years |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| three years more or less |
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4% |
[ 1 ] |
| five years |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| more than five years |
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25% |
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52skidoo
Joined: 12 Mar 2012
Posts: 32
Location: Taiwan
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LMAO!!!!
Seems like the world is your oyster!
Just go with your best instincts and put the furniture in storage if you have to!
It will be there when you come back. Or sell it, or give it away. There will always be more furniture, hah!
Hope life always finds you in such great circumstances. |
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voltaire
Joined: 03 Dec 2006
Posts: 179
Location: 'The secret of being boring is to say everything.'
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| Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:37 am Post subject: |
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| 25 years in one place sounds good if you like what you are doing... I can see that... |
What I meant was the first 25 years of my life, so I did enjoy them.. more or less... ah youth!
It's just that unlike you, I spent my earlier years, the first half of my life, in one town with a few odd excursions of a hundred miles or less.
So the travel bug didn't so much bite me as incubate in my soul for a quarter of a century.
I realized something was up with me - in college- when after the first semester, 85% of my friends were outlanders.
What was this need of mine to hang with Chinese, Japanese, Brazilians, Ghanaians, Turks, Arabs and Iranians? |
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52skidoo
Joined: 12 Mar 2012
Posts: 32
Location: Taiwan
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Hi Voltaire,
You put your location as central Java, would that be Bandung or some nearby city? I taught in Bandung on two separate occasions. One of my favorite places on the planet. Which do you like better, matakbak telor or asin?
I wouldn't mind teaching there again. The people are great and so is the food!
Plus the weather is better than coastal cities on java. |
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voltaire
Joined: 03 Dec 2006
Posts: 179
Location: 'The secret of being boring is to say everything.'
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| 52skidoo wrote: |
Bandung or some nearby city? I taught in Bandung on two separate occasions. Which do you like better, matakbak telor or asin?
I wouldn't mind teaching there again. The people are great and so is the food!
Plus the weather is better than coastal cities on java. |
I'm in Semarang, which is coastal. Bandung is West Java. I'm afraid I disagree with you here. I hate Bandung. It's the one place in all the world that just gives me the creeps. I dunno, maybe I was murdered there in a past life, or will be at the end of my present incarnation. (You know, an appointment in Samarra kind of a deal).
I prefer warm coastal weather to the chilly mountains. Different strokes, eh?
I also have to tell you that all martabak is essentially an egg dish. Telur is egg, and asin means salt. There is 'sweet' martabak which is a kind of cake really, and martabak asin which is eggs and dough, etc. Telur asin is almost always made with duck eggs, rather than hen's eggs, and duck eggs are usually referred to as 'salt eggs' (telur asin) as that's how they are generally served, in boiled form - cooked in heavily salted water. Of course for martabak, the duck eggs are scrambled. So to answer your question, I prefer the savory martabak dish.
I mostly dislike Indonesian food, but boiled telur asin are one of my favorite things in the world. |
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