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skinhead
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jajdude
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| royjones wrote: |
| working with mentally ill individuals in a clinical setting. |
---being one those individuals helped me a lot |
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skinhead
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:53 am Post subject: Re: What prepared you for life in Korea? |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
Living on my own as an undergrad and grad far away from home,
a few months in French Quebec,
hot wings night at the sports bar,
fond experiences of Chinatown in Vancouver and San Francisco,
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a previous ESLer's advice to "Take everything in stride" and "Don't be careful, be accommodating"
What prepared (or didn't prepare) you for life in Korea? |
Still there, VI? Still accommodating? |
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recessiontime
Joined: 21 Jun 2010
Location: Got avatar privileges nyahahaha
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:19 am Post subject: |
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| this forum prepared me for pretty much everything |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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Army Cadets- Particulary six weeks of camp every summer.
This really teaches leadership |
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SeoulNate
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
Location: Hyehwa
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:47 am Post subject: Re: What prepared you for life in Korea? |
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| skinhead wrote: |
| VanIslander wrote: |
Living on my own as an undergrad and grad far away from home,
a few months in French Quebec,
hot wings night at the sports bar,
fond experiences of Chinatown in Vancouver and San Francisco,
and
a previous ESLer's advice to "Take everything in stride" and "Don't be careful, be accommodating"
What prepared (or didn't prepare) you for life in Korea? |
Still there, VI? Still accommodating? |
talk about necromancy... |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:29 am Post subject: |
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A sense of humor helps.  |
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PRagic
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| Life in the Army! |
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Modernist
Joined: 23 Mar 2011
Location: The 90s
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| Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:02 am Post subject: |
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Before I came here I lived for longer than I would care to think about in Rockford, Illinois. One of the worst cities in America. 'Decayed, apathetic, ugly rust-belt hellhole' doesn't quite cover it. Visit, if you'd really like to understand. I hear the golf is good.
Right before I came here, I taught in the Central Bronx in New York City. When you start with students who don't know the alphabet, who can't make the sounds in words, who can't write their names legibly, AND who are often abused at home, working 2 jobs, have between 3 and 7 kids, felony records, etc etc, but still work like the devil to try to learn English, dealing with a room of Korean 7th graders is not as intimidating. |
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skinhead
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:40 am Post subject: Re: What prepared you for life in Korea? |
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| SeoulNate wrote: |
talk about necromancy... |
Necromancy is a form of magic in which the practitioner seeks to summon the spirit of a deceased person, either as an apparition or ghost, or to raise them bodily, for the purpose of divination. In Renaissance magic, necromancy (or nigromancy, by popular association with niger "black") was classified as a forbidden art, and Johannes Hartlieb (1456) lists demonology in general under the heading. The word necromancy derives from the Greek νεκρός (nekr�s), "dead body", and μαντεία (mante�a), "prophecy, divination". The compound νεκρομαντεία itself is post-classical, first used by Origen in the 3rd century. The classical Greek term is nekyia (ἡ νέκυια), in Hellenistic Greek also νεκυιομαντεία, rendered in Latin as necyomantia and in 17th century English as necyomancy.
Your turn. Talk about plagiarism. |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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I think I polished off the whole FAQ section of this forum. That was a good start. Read a great book about Korean called 'The Koreans' by some journalist called Breen.
More than anything the tough jobs I worked before I came here and the fact that leaving this ESL gig without a couple years experience will see me right back in that situation when I get home
Also when I was at uni I often lived on <5000 GBP a year with most of that going on rent. I've lived in fairly miserable circumstances so this is a holiday by comparison |
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