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Newbie
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 Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:10 pm Post subject: Anger |
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Yes, I know it's September. However, it's also still 30 degrees. Turn on your gawddam air conditioner!!  |
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losing_touch
Joined: 26 Jun 2008
Location: Ulsan - I think!
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| The weather feels great to me! |
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pidgin
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: Seoul
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Urgh, I just had a class where both the students and I felt like we were dying. I even let a group of them move their desks over so they could get under the inadequate little classroom fan. Seriously, I felt like the climate conditions were just making me lamer as a teacher. |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| Seriously, I felt like the climate conditions were just making me lamer as a teacher. |
They DO make you a lamer teacher. If you're sweating your ass off, feel disgusting and your clothes are sticking to you, there's a very small chance you're going to be able to put in 100%. This is on top of the fact that feeling disgusting makes your students much less apt to put in their share either. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject: Re: Anger |
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| Newbie wrote: |
| Yes, I know it's September. However, it's also still 30 degrees. Turn on your gawddam air conditioner!! |
You are wrong, Newbie. It's Fall. So it must be 'cool'. It's the law in Korea for Fall to be cool. Air con in no longer required after August 31st. Get with the program, dude!  |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: Anger |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Newbie wrote: |
| Yes, I know it's September. However, it's also still 30 degrees. Turn on your gawddam air conditioner!! |
You are wrong, Newbie. It's Fall. So it must be 'cool'. It's the law in Korea for Fall to be cool. Air con in no longer required after August 31st. Get with the program, dude! |
I know, I know. I only breezed through that section of the "Where's the Logic: A Guide to Strange Things in Korea". Also missed the part about not using Air Con in April and May even when it's hitting 35. Oh, and of course the oh so important, "I know it's 10 degrees in December, but hey, let's run the heater as high as it can go" |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:27 am Post subject: |
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I dunno, I've been toughing it out with fans and open windows. The students and coteachers come in and habitually turn on the airconditioner in the English lab, so I put up a "please do not touch" sign. It's to try and save a little electricity, since it's not uncomfortable in the room. As you can imagine they'd turn on the aircon yet have all the doors and windows open.
What kills me is that none of the other rooms have the AC on, and none but the main teachers' office has it on---with the windows open, of course---yet everyone is somehow unbearably hot only when they walk into my room. Grow a set. There's no reason to crank up the AC when it's in the 70s in the shade. |
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maddog
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:24 am Post subject: |
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| We're lucky that the air-con in our school is still turned on. However, I remember we had to beg the managment to switch the AC on at the start of summer. I hope they don't turn it off anytime soon. The AC in my apartment has been switched on 24/7 for the past few days. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:20 am Post subject: Re: Anger |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Newbie wrote: |
| Yes, I know it's September. However, it's also still 30 degrees. Turn on your gawddam air conditioner!! |
You are wrong, Newbie. It's Fall. So it must be 'cool'. It's the law in Korea for Fall to be cool. Air con in no longer required after August 31st. Get with the program, dude! |
Right. It's tough to convince some to go by the temperature rather than by the calendar, but I have a really tough time trying to convince some people that it is, in fact, still summer until Septemeber 21st or 22nd. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Smee wrote: |
I dunno, I've been toughing it out with fans and open windows. The students and coteachers come in and habitually turn on the airconditioner in the English lab, so I put up a "please do not touch" sign. It's to try and save a little electricity, since it's not uncomfortable in the room. As you can imagine they'd turn on the aircon yet have all the doors and windows open.
What kills me is that none of the other rooms have the AC on, and none but the main teachers' office has it on---with the windows open, of course---yet everyone is somehow unbearably hot only when they walk into my room. Grow a set. There's no reason to crank up the AC when it's in the 70s in the shade. |
Well, temperature is a fluid thing. Always changing. But just because it's in the 70's in the shade, doesn't mean a room will be cool. Body heat adds a lot to room temps. When there are twenty 18 year olds in a room the temperature will rise by body heat alone.
I find it's best to just completely ignore the outside temperature. Any room, at any time of year, might be hot or cold. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Smee wrote: |
I dunno, I've been toughing it out with fans and open windows. The students and coteachers come in and habitually turn on the airconditioner in the English lab, so I put up a "please do not touch" sign. It's to try and save a little electricity, since it's not uncomfortable in the room. As you can imagine they'd turn on the aircon yet have all the doors and windows open.
What kills me is that none of the other rooms have the AC on, and none but the main teachers' office has it on---with the windows open, of course---yet everyone is somehow unbearably hot only when they walk into my room. Grow a set. There's no reason to crank up the AC when it's in the 70s in the shade. |
How I wish I had your problems. |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| It was pretty hot during the day but lovely and cool in the evening, a typical Autumn night. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| This weather in the morning when it's fairly hot and humid but not hot enough for the school to turn on the A/C is seriously draining the amount of energy I have in the classroom. |
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