Korean Job Discussion Forums

[khyber]

i_teach....
no offense.


you're hot.

[rawiri]

I confronted a junkie who robbed a pharmacy at knife point. He had dropped a lot of his swag when he was running so i just followed the loot then found him in an alleyway. Me and my workmate blocked him from leaving so he just sat down and started eating all his pills, till the cops came and beat the crap out of him.

[Greekfreak]

-Blew off Dan Ackroyd while cooking souvlaki for a folk-arts festival in my hometown. As far as I was concerned, he still owed me $8 for "Blues Brothers 2000".

-Met Ice-T at Lollapalooza '91. He was very cool and signed just about anything for anybody.

-Touched Chris Cornell's boot at Lollapalooza '92 after he jumped in the crowd. Also walked out on the Red Hot Chili F*ckers at that same event. The funny thing was, about 12,000 people had the same idea. They were horrid.

-Did the nasty with a Catholic school girl in the chapel of her school. Don't worry, we were both legal.


-While wasted, set my hand on fire at a New Year's gig by accident, but soldiered through by grabbing a handful of ice and still managed to score that night without puking.

-Early on while in Korea, sent a hot princess home in the wee hours of the morning because she didn't want to use a party hat. She came back an hour later with a pack. It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that schwing!

-Downed an entire bottle of Ouzo at a taverna in Athens and the band kept playing until dawn because they loved our kefi (enthusiasm). We gave them a big tip, though.

Hey Benicio, was this a tall, blonde bird from N. Dakota who liked snowboarding and dressed up as Trinity one Halloween?

[Benicio]

Nope, she was from Canuckistan. Has left Korea for greener pastures.

"Take off, to the great white north! Take off!"- Geddy Lee

[tumbleweed_marijane]

the number of students in my hagwon has doubled since i joined six months ago. AND im NOT a native speaker.

so there!

[oneofthesarahs]

-I once said "Nobody puts baby in a corner" to Patrick Swayze. He was kinda huffy about it.

-Editor of my college newspaper for two years. Proceeded to make enemies with the entire Greek system AND Student Senate.

-Got drunk with Bright Eyes (if you're into the whole indie/emo/pretentious music scene).

-As mentioned in another thread, I used to be assistant manager of a porn shop.

-Placed in the top three at the Kansas Math Conference competition for four years straight.

-Met Madeline Albright, and the first thing she said to me was, "I love your shoes."

-I've spent 24 hours in a Walmart.

-Paul Rudd hit on me outside of the women's bathroom in a really grungy club in Kansas. I later found out he is married.

And for the win....

-I've had sex on the the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building. Come to think of it, that's probably on security footage somewhere.

[merkurix]

Great!

-Broke into my own house using a paper clip (the locking mechanism broke, but the paper clip was okay).

-Beat Super Mario 1,2,3 using only my left hand.

-Almost got sideswiped by a drunkdriver in 2002, but he missed, broke through the side railing and fell 40 feet off into the highway below.

-Ate a whole Papa John's Family Pizza meal all by myself.

-Went from bench pressing 135 lbs to 305 lbs in 6 months of working out.

-Taught myself to juggle oranges during a brief job as a fruit vendor.

-Can slam dunk a tennis ball.

-Supported Ben Afleck's gambling habit when I worked for the casino industry.

-Got an A.A., A.S. from a J.C. and still managed to transfer in 1.5 years.

-Broke up a knife fight. When the guy tried to stab the other guy, my arm deflected the attack (not intentional) and broke the knife balde from the handle. The guy tried to still salvage what he could by picking up the blade, but ended up slicing his own fingers and that was the end of the fight. My jacket was cut, but I was okay.

-I haven't been robbed by Koreans, but have been robbed twice by foreigners; a kiwi and a fellow American.

[The Great Wall of Whiner]

Out of retirement for this one:


- 17 countries have travelled; Korea was my turning point

- Speak 6 languages

- Former vice-chair of my school district's race relations committee

- 2nd VP of the Volunteer Society in my hometown

- Have met dozens of famous people

- Taught in all big 'fours' (South Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan)

- Have entered North Korea from both the north and the south

- Have been on talk shows, news shows, one-on-one shows...

- Youngest politican candidate to run for office in my country (until 1998)

- Led a successful campaign to remove a politician from office (first in my country's history)

- Make about 3k a month in China

- Relative a former silver medalist in LA 1984

- Have stopped 4 people from killing themselves

- Most important, most beautiful daughter in the whole wide world

[i_teach_esl]

[jlb]

1. I can juggle

2. Walked 1500 miles in 4 months across the United States

3. Skied 26 days at Whistler one winter, while going to school full-time.

4. Worked for 2.5 years at Mickey D's during high school.

5. Was once ranked #13 in my age category in badminton in the province of Alberta. My sister and I were #2 in Edmonton and surrounding area for doubles in our age category.

6. I've run a marathon.

7. Got screwed over by a bad hagwon but took them to the labor board and ended up getting my money.

8. When hiking, I could eat an entire large pizza in one sitting plus a pint of Ben and Jerrys for dessert.

9. Have managed to not have a real job in the 27 years I've been alive.

hmm...not so impressive! I haven't met anyone famous like the rest of you

[the saint]

been happily married for nearly 4500 days (over 12 years)

paid off the mortgage last week

I went to school with Princess Sumaya of Jordan

and I've just started a new blog to which you are all cordially invited
Stuff I Find

[shifter2009]

I got fined around 300 dollars for disorderly conduct. What was the disorderly conduct? Mudwrestling with hot girls. If thats disorderly. I don't wanna be orderly.

[SunnyD]

- I won Scrabble with the word "eloquence." Use of the Q, triple word score, and a 50 point bonus for using all my tiles.

- I was 3 feet away from Alyssa Milano while she was shopping for perfume.

- Jordana Brewster got her brows waxed while I was the manager of the spa.

- I won the "Best Dancer" and "Best Stunter" awards at UCA College Prep Camp. (cheerleading camp)

- I can make a louder noise with my tongue than you can.

- I used to be clinically obese. Now I'm a size 2. It took me 2.5 years to reach my goal weight (my high school size) and I've kept it off for 9 months.

- I've been an extra in 5 movies. None of which you've seen. lol.


SunnyD

[sillywilly]

-My salamango was was ranked 37th in the world in Viva Pinata!

[demaratus]

I drank 3 and a half beer in 7 seconds without spilling a drop. (A talent to be proud of, I know).

Won $2000 at the poker tables in Las Vegas despite only buying in for $100. Lost it the next day in under 2 hours.

I am undefeated in trivial persuit and I have played at least 50 games.

I have been to about 50 concerts in my lifetime.

I have travelled or lived in 11 countries. Only 3 of them claimed English as an official language.

I was employed at least 20 hours a week from the age of 13-27.

I shot a man in reno just to watch him die.