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Anyone else's school in strange location?

 
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Margot73



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:40 pm    Post subject: Anyone else's school in strange location? Reply with quote

There's always pounding loud sounds and music above my school. I thought it might be a bar, but my class is so early in the day. It seemed unlikely that people would already be drunk and wild.

Finally I went up to investigate. It turned out to be one of those churchs (Pentecostal?) whose members speak in toungues, fall on the floor, scream etc..Sometimes it sounds like furniture is being thrown. Freaky!


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guangho



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I once worked at a school above a sauna. It was great, except for the school part.
One of the posters here worked at a school next to a hog slaughter house.
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Justin Trullinger



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My school is in Ecuador. Is that a strange location? Cool Probably not, but it's interesting...

In Spain, I worked in a school that shared a building with a local political party. Lots of shouting...



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Justin
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Jetgirly



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My school in Italy had a beautiful lobby where several movies were filmed. I'm sure that they could have doubled my pay if they'd moved the school across the street to a less "prestigious" building.
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dmb



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I worked in a school that shared a building with a local political party. Lots of shouting...
Same here. It was especially interesting around the time of Abdullah Ocalan's arrest and trial. Burning effigies were a daily event outside my office.
The party(MHP) was situated on the top floor of the building and we were always having these dodgy Anatolian peasant nationalists walking around the building and into my office.
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guangho



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DMB, if this teaching gig doesn't work how can I become a dodgy Anatolian peasant nationalist? I got 1 out of 4 so far.
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thrifty



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some old English Fast locations:

1. Next door to the minibus stop so the drivers used to eat and drink with the teachers and students in the Fast cafe.

2. Below a pyramid pots and pans outfit so lots of chanting sell more pots on Sundays.

3. Located half way up building materials supply shops so lots of leers for the women and some men teachers.

More dmb?
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dmb



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

guangho wrote:
DMB, if this teaching gig doesn't work how can I become a dodgy Anatolian peasant nationalist? I got 1 out of 4 so far.
step one is to grow a 'tache and marry a cousin.

thrifty, Pendik and Mec branches weren't in any weird places- well not that I remember.
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Glenski



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

High school where I used to work was in the boonies of Sapporo, adjacent to a dairy farm. Nice fields for the kids to practice cross country skiing in winter, but in summer, the dung flies and smell of manure were sometimes quite overpowering. And, no, the kids didn't have the sense to close the screens on the windows.
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guangho



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dmb wrote:
step one is to grow a 'tache and marry a cousin.


Doable. The unshaven TEFL alkie look will suddenly seem patriotic. Oh their husbands might object but who doesn't love fighting the good fight?
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