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[hubba bubba]

You know your school is country if you hear roosters from your office.

[Alyallen]

My school has a rooster in a cage on the premises. And a peacock or two. We even used to have deer.

Actually, the idiots who live in the house next to my apartment building has a rooster that crows at all hours of the day and night. I even wrote a polite note about that damn thing and they had the nerve to write back about how the sound is good for the memory Asshole

Did I mention this is in Jeonju. The capital of Jeollabukdo. 600,000+ people

[aphong420]

My school is definetly country. Our curriculum includes: dairy farming, food processing, horticulture, and landscape architecture. Not to mention - we have cows grazing pastures, pigs in pens, and horses. I love rural Korea.

[spliff]

[goodsounz]

You know your school is country when the bus driver stops next to a field to let a child out to relieve himself.

[Alyallen]

[Smee]

You know your school is country if there are 76 students.

You know your school is country if they burn trash in the parking lot.

[pest2]

You know your school is country when they ask you to teach the entire school -- 27 students -- in one class together -- grades 1-6.

[chris_J2]

You drive outside the town at night, & it's pitch dark, with no streetlights after a 5 minute drive.

[Alyallen]

[Bear256]

I teach at a rural elementary school out by Gangwha Island in the extreme NW of South Korea. It is between two "towns". The closest town of about 1,000 people is 3kms and the larger town of about 8-10,000 is 5kms away. I live on the school grounds and after 4:30 it is just the night watchman and myself locked in here. We have 96 students 1-6. I consider this much more rural than the town of 386,000 I lived in before.

[Smee]

Our school has two detached buildings used as a "resting area" for the male teachers. They watch TV and sleep there in the afternoons. Do all schools have this? When I mentioned it to a K-friend she wasn't surprised. I had to spend the night there once, but it was much more warm and comfortable than the drafty apartment I was in before.

Oh, and do you have volleyball games? Everything stops around 2 pm on Wednesday so we can play volleyball. Our school was really good, but recently most of our best players fell victim to the rotation that happens every 4 years among public school teachers. Why would they let 4 of our top players walk away like that? 아이고.

[snehulak]

You know your school is country when they bus in students from four nearby elementary schools to see the foreign teacher and your total number of students is still less than 100.

[Bondrock]

you know your school is country when there is no song


no park


and only 2 kims

[pest2]