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ghost
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 Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:21 am Post subject: 40 year old English teacher makes U.S. Olympic swim team! |
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Dara Torres, a 40 year old U.S. Mom who is certified to teach ESL/EFL, made the U.S. Olympic swim team, after a break of more than 6 years away from the sport!
She beat competitors less than half her age!
Read about her interesting macrobiotic diet and sleep habits (9-11 hours per 24 hours) and see how Dara has kept the ageing process at bay.
Had Dara not made a comeback in swimming, she might have ended up in Berlitz Istanbul, because she had previous contacts with Berlitz schools in the U.S. and Canada. It would have been interesting to see someone like Dara working alongside a teacher like Yaramaz -
Check out this article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/01/AR2007080102538.html
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justme
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:32 am Post subject: |
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| It would have been interesting to see someone like Dara working alongside a teacher like Yaramaz |
Why? |
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scot47
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| I find something sinister in this obsession with fitness. |
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justme
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| Sinister is a good word for it. I was thinking 'profoundly disturbing' but your is better, scot. |
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ghost
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:34 am Post subject: mens sana in corpore etc..... |
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I find something sinister in this obsession with fitness.
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One also finds it sad when people do not take care of their health. EFL teachers have no excuse for not keeping healthy and exercising at least 45 - 60 minutes a day - as we generally only work 20 hours max a week, and have plenty of free time. Absolutely no excuse. And most EFL 'teachers' overseas are not married, so they have even more time than the average person.
If Dara Torres, at age 40, can reach the Olympic Games, and take care of her child, while juggling with other pursuits, then we (EFL teachers) should also do something about our state of health. Being lazy is not a virtue.
It is sinister to let your body deteriorate by being sedentary and abusing it (the body) with alcohol day after day. That is the real sinister thing. The human body was not meant to be sedentary, nor was it meant to ingest vast quantities of alcohol - or vast quantitites of anything else, for that matter.
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tarte tatin
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Three threads on this topic is really too much Ghost. Start a thread on the Korean forum why don't you? Plenty of tubby waygooks over there for you to lecture. |
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justme
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tarte tatin
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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Ender sums it up beautifully! 
Actually I have never met Ghost but he is a bit intriguing. I think he might be a really bland regular guy who has just developed this online persona, (namely someone with chronic Aspergers syndrome), to stir things up a bit!
It's okay in small doses but as I said Ghost go play on the other forum for a while. BTW I am currently munching Turkish Delight yum yum. |
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yaramaz
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I've met ghost. He stayed in our lojman about 4 years ago, in Kayseri. We offered hospitality and kindness, some food and drink, and honest information about our school and our lives in Turkey. I'm rather baffled as to why he is returning the favour with lecturing and criticism. I am neither obese nor overweight nor unfit. Hell, I just ran up the 5 flights of stairs at Nayah last night to go dancing with my friends. Should I have swum there somehow? Should I start running triathlons? Shall I start working at Berlitz?!?
Ghost, wtf?????? |
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yaramaz
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Just read the article and realised what I am doing wrong... I need to hire people to do everything for me!
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| She hired a team of experts to facilitate her comeback: two physical therapists; two masseurs; a strength coach; a nanny; a sprinting coach; a head coach. She special-orders food from an organic company in Tampa. |
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tarte tatin
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| Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:56 am Post subject: |
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Yaramaz wrote:
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| We offered hospitality and kindness, some food and drink |
Perhaps the food and drink you offered was too hearty and delicious. You should have offered some green tea and a light salad, with Ghost's precious BMI in mind! |
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justme
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| Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:08 am Post subject: |
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| She hired a team of experts to facilitate her comeback: two physical therapists; two masseurs; a strength coach; a nanny; a sprinting coach; a head coach. She special-orders food from an organic company in Tampa. |
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Ah, so the great Dara doesn't actually take care of her kid... If Ender had a nanny, or could just learn to look after himself (though, sadly he can't-- even if he wanted to clean his own bottom, he wouldn't be able to, as his arms aren't long enough), I'd have all the time in the world to become an Olympic swimming champion.
Now why didn't I think of that?[/b] |
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yaramaz
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| EFL teachers have no excuse for not keeping healthy and exercising at least 45 - 60 minutes a day - as we generally only work 20 hours max a week, and have plenty of free time. Absolutely no excuse. |
Actually, I teach 28 hours a week these days (i do 4 hrs overtime on top of 24 hours) and put in about 40-45 hours in total at work (office hours, paperwork, etc). I leave early in the morning (7am or 9am, depending on the day) and get home 8:30ish in the evening. I still run around a lot though-- yesterday I walked to Sisli from Taksim and back twice while running errands. Istanbul is naturally very hilly so just getting places is quite an effort in some areas. You don't need to jog or join gyms or swim (very expensive here!!!) to get fit. |
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spiral78
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I notice ghost distinguishes those who work only 20 hours weekly as 'teachers.'
Maybe (real) teachers usually work a bit more... |
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ghost
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| Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:08 am Post subject: beef and stew |
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Ghost has no 'beef' with Yaramaz - in fact ghost is rather envious of the fact that Yaramaz has lasted so long in Turkey, and appears to be doing well, when ghost, sadly, was not able to get the same positive experience from Turkey, for reasons that some of you know about.
Yaramaz is sensible with her diet and gets plenty of exercise, but ghost saw other 'teachers' leading very destructive lives for their bodies, and of course that was their choice, but sad. The line had to be drawn with regard to teachers who show up to school in a semi inebriated state, and those 'teachers' have no business being there.
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