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OnTheOtherSide
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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 Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:17 am Post subject: I had a great class today |
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I had the best class ever today.
The class started off great. Before the bell even rang, a little boy ran up and pulled a little girl's pony tail really hard. The girl started crying, it created chaos and I sent the boy outside. The girl just ran out too.
After I managed to get them outside. The ENTIRE class started ripping up papers and throwing them up in the air like confetti. This lasted long enough to make a HUGE mess. Apparently they all had papers ripped up already, then threw them at the same time. It was all planned out beforehand?
The boss and another teacher were watching the scene through the window. What did they do? They peaked for a minute, and then just walked away. Whaaaaaaa?
Then a girl started playing a cell phone recording. In English, it was her own voice yelling, "F*ck you!, F*ck you!" repeatedly. I took the phone away, but not before the entire class was laughing uncontrollably and going crazy.
Then a little girl throws an entire pencil case, full of pencils, out of the 5th floor window. I send her outside.
Oh but wait, it just keeps getting better and better! Then I hear angry Korean yelling outside in the school lobby. Apparently a man got hit with the pencils, markers and plastic case on the street. So he came in, irate, yelling about how he had pencils flying down at him like arrows.
And for the grande finale, seconds before the bell rings. A kid falls forward with his desk causing another desk to fall like a domino. Hitting a kid in front hard in the back. After the deafening sound of crashing desks, I had a kid crying sooooo loud. Then, class dismissed.
I can't get mad though. With their spock haircuts and ridiculous clothes. I just gotta laugh at this whole spectacle. One day I swear I will look back and laugh my a$$ off about days like this.
Now where are those bottles of soju? |
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OnTheOtherSide
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:18 am Post subject: |
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I nominate myself for teacher of the year award!
Yeah I know. I'm talking to myself like Tom Hanks on that island..... but i'm drunk and the other topics suck so screw it man! Asaa!
You know what. Going out to bars around here AIN'T cheap. Dammitall. |
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BigMikeAbroad
Joined: 12 Jun 2008
Location: US, for now
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:09 am Post subject: WTH I just posted a reply that dind't show up... |
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oK SO here is the short version of my reply the evil internet ddin't feel like putting through. My family isn't likeing me traveling to Korea, my mom gets nervouse when I leave the county lol. Now I have traveled before and getg BS for it everytime. I am just glad they don't know about Dave's because while I look at that post and think while insane that might be fun, they would cringe. I got all the adventure chromosones in the family. So yeah, heres to good times, I hope, when I arrive in a few weeks. Ok 7 weeks lol.
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plus99
Joined: 30 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:40 am Post subject: |
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| lose some weight bruh |
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plus99
Joined: 30 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:42 am Post subject: |
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ha, and the toungue ring and the "evil" anything language... it was lame 15 years ago.
thanks for playing. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:38 pm Post subject: Re: I had a great class today |
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| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
I had the best class ever today.
The class started off great. Before the bell even rang, a little boy ran up and pulled a little girl's pony tail really hard. The girl started crying, it created chaos and I sent the boy outside. The girl just ran out too.
After I managed to get them outside. The ENTIRE class started ripping up papers and throwing them up in the air like confetti. This lasted long enough to make a HUGE mess. Apparently they all had papers ripped up already, then threw them at the same time. It was all planned out beforehand?
The boss and another teacher were watching the scene through the window. What did they do? They peaked for a minute, and then just walked away. Whaaaaaaa?
Then a girl started playing a cell phone recording. In English, it was her own voice yelling, "F*ck you!, F*ck you!" repeatedly. I took the phone away, but not before the entire class was laughing uncontrollably and going crazy.
Then a little girl throws an entire pencil case, full of pencils, out of the 5th floor window. I send her outside.
Oh but wait, it just keeps getting better and better! Then I hear angry Korean yelling outside in the school lobby. Apparently a man got hit with the pencils, markers and plastic case on the street. So he came in, irate, yelling about how he had pencils flying down at him like arrows.
And for the grande finale, seconds before the bell rings. A kid falls forward with his desk causing another desk to fall like a domino. Hitting a kid in front hard in the back. After the deafening sound of crashing desks, I had a kid crying sooooo loud. Then, class dismissed.
I can't get mad though. With their spock haircuts and ridiculous clothes. I just gotta laugh at this whole spectacle. One day I swear I will look back and laugh my a$$ off about days like this.
Now where are those bottles of soju? |
Yesterday I didn't have to teach anything because the Korean teachers needed the time to prepare students for finals. I did have a little lunch-time tutoring session with two students who are entering yet another speech contest. Talk about problems. They don't have enough time to work on their speeches because of exams coming up. One of them can memorise stuff really quickly but she seems so nervous and unnatural when she speaks. Her father personally thanked me for the extra work I've done helping her but I still feel like I just can't succeed at getting her to speak naturally. The other one has so much trouble with 'R'-words. I had to go through the whole speech practicing all the R-words. She's been working so hard on her speech that the paper on which it's written looks like a 100-year-old pirate map but she still can't get it all memorised. Both of them need a lot of work with words that blend together when the second word starts with a vowel. Oh woe is me.
Thank you, OnTheOtherSide, for being the latest Dave's member to remind me what incredibly angelic students I have. Even the two not-so-angelic ones I made kneel outside the staff room for 30 minutes the other week seem like models of good behaviour after reading that. |
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I_Am_The_Kiwi
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| plus99 wrote: |
lose some weight bruh
ha, and the toungue ring and the "evil" anything language... it was lame 15 years ago.
thanks for playing. |
what a dick...... |
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Darkness
Joined: 12 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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Is that story real??
That's amazing if it is..... |
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browneyedgirl
Joined: 17 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: I had a great class today |
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| Why this hasn't been typed up and sent it to a network as a television plot is beyond me. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: I had a great class today |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
Yesterday I didn't have to teach anything because the Korean teachers needed the time to prepare students for finals. |
I was hoping for this yesterday. But no. No, what they did was switch the classes around so I had to teach the low level classes they've given up on and I get the classes that "needed" extra time after exams. Thanks a lot, school.
I'm not leaving over little things like this, but it does make leaving a warm fuzzy thought instead of kind of sad.
I'm not really lazy, just tired. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject: Re: I had a great class today |
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| browneyedgirl wrote: |
| Why this hasn't been typed up and sent it to a network as a television plot is beyond me. |
I've had visions of creating a sit-com called 'Dingland Club' about an English hagwon with five foreign teachers (all loser guys) and five Korean teachers (all Christian princesses), with the plots coming right off Dave's ESL Cafe. There'd be Hank Budweisser from Texas, the proud American, Bob the gay Canadian Korean apologist who hates Korea but pretends it's all right and perfectly normal, Nigel the football holigan from Liverpool who's fallen in love with soju, Bruce the Aussie packpacker who can't understand what's so bad about smoking pot here, and Ruan the cane-wielding Afrikaaner who can barely speak English. Of course with numerous runners this cast would have to change repeatedly. And if only a Russian actor is available that can easily be worked into the script.
Any Korean producers want to purchase my pilot? |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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| OP... Get a High School job. Seriously. The worst thing my kids ever try to do is try to go to sleep. |
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bejarano-korea
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:11 pm Post subject: Re: I had a great class today |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| browneyedgirl wrote: |
| Why this hasn't been typed up and sent it to a network as a television plot is beyond me. |
I've had visions of creating a sit-com called 'Dingland Club' about an English hagwon with five foreign teachers (all loser guys) and five Korean teachers (all Christian princesses), with the plots coming right off Dave's ESL Cafe. There'd be Hank Budweisser from Texas, the proud American, Bob the gay Canadian Korean apologist who hates Korea but pretends it's all right and perfectly normal, Nigel the football holigan from Liverpool who's fallen in love with soju, Bruce the Aussie packpacker who can't understand what's so bad about smoking pot here, and Ruan the cane-wielding Afrikaaner who can barely speak English. Of course with numerous runners this cast would have to change repeatedly. And if only a Russian actor is available that can easily be worked into the script.
Any Korean producers want to purchase my pilot? |
Thats fucking genius!  If you need any authentic plotlines doing involving 'Nigel' (Though no true scouser would be named 'Nigel' better call him 'Kevo' or 'Jenno' or a similar nickname ending with 'O') pm me!
What about Mr Kim the hagwon director? You have left him out! |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: I had a great class today |
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| bejarano-korea wrote: |
What about Mr Kim the hagwon director? You have left him out! |
Hahahaha... and the episodes could always end with all the teachers barging into Mr. Kim's office, saying: "Mr. Kim! You didn't pay us and it's the end of the month!"
and Mr. Kim would be like, "Don't worry, I'll pay you tomorrow!" then he would smile and a computer-generated sparkle would appear on his teeth. All the teachers would then say in unison, "oh! Mr. Kim! You're so silly!" and Saved By the Bell style exit music would play just before the credits rolled up. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh yeah, Mr Kim - I remember him from the half year I lasted at a hagwon before I quit. The best scenes would be of parents in Mr Kim's office being told how wonderful the hagwon is and how much their kids are learning, while in the classrooms if it wasn't a state of chaos there'd be a teacher asking 'What's your job? What job would you like?' to ten completely stumped and befuddled students who've only been studying English there for five years. |
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