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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:54 pm Post subject: For Straphanger and samd: Guess what I saw in Korea! |
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This morning I was jogging with a friend and this farmer in a bongo truck who was overtaking us in the opposite lane slowed down to our pace, opened his window, and just stared at us for fifteen or twenty seconds as we jogged along and he drove along beside us. Actually I think he was staring more at my young, blond female friend than me, but he slowed down to gawk as we wondered if he wanted to say something and then he finally drove off. Why would he do that?
Today I was having a smoke with my coworker and he spat about five or six times. What kind of educated person spits all the time? The other day one of my high school girls spat on the steps as she was walking down to our school's cafeteria. Don't you think that's extremely disgusting and unlady-like behaviour for a 16- or 17-year-old girl?
Earlier today a little girl yelled 'Hello!' to me on the street for no apparent reason. Why would a kid do that to someone she didn't know?
Yesterday one of my best students fell asleep twice in class. She didn't look so great, but if she's that sick why's she even at school? I can't remember ever falling asleep in high school. Even if you're sick, don't you think that's kind of rude?
That's all for now. I'll be happy to keep you informed on what I see in sparkling Korea tomorrow. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:03 pm Post subject: Re: For Straphanger and samd: Guess what I saw in Korea! |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
This morning I was jogging with a friend and this farmer in a bongo truck who was overtaking us in the opposite lane slowed down to our pace, opened his window, and just stared at us for fifteen or twenty seconds as we jogged along and he drove along beside us. Actually I think he was staring more at my young, blond female friend than me, but he slowed down to gawk as we wondered if he wanted to say something and then he finally drove off. Why would he do that?
Today I was having a smoke with my coworker and he spat about five or six times. What kind of educated person spits all the time? The other day one of my high school girls spat on the steps as she was walking down to our school's cafeteria. Don't you think that's extremely disgusting and unlady-like behaviour for a 16- or 17-year-old girl?
Earlier today a little girl yelled 'Hello!' to me on the street for no apparent reason. Why would a kid do that to someone she didn't know?
Yesterday one of my best students fell asleep twice in class. She didn't look so great, but if she's that sick why's she even at school? I can't remember ever falling asleep in high school. Even if you're sick, don't you think that's kind of rude?
That's all for now. I'll be happy to keep you informed on what I see in sparkling Korea tomorrow. |
You don't remember seeing people fall asleep in high school? I didn't fall asleep in class, but plenty of kids fall asleep in Canada or America when you're teaching, but I never saw a Western female spit on the street.
It's a Korean tomboy thing, I guess. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I`ve never seen the 20 something ladies spit on the floor or hawk a hogie either. i guess there`s a first for everything. |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| My Psych 102 prof got pissed at me for sleeping in class because I was snoring. lol. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Xuanzang wrote: |
| I`ve never seen the 20 something ladies spit on the floor or hawk a hogie either. i guess there`s a first for everything. |
I've seen a sixteen-year-old girl spit on a classroom floor (I made her get down and clean it up). I was once in the lobby of a friend's apartment building when I saw a high school girl spit on the clean, new lobby floor. I shot her a look of disgust and she did it again (as I thought, damn you're lucky you're not my student). Another time I was walking up the main staircase at my school to be greeted by a big luggie on one of the stairs. I thought, this is just so damn disgusting that the next time I catch a student doing that I'm going to make her mop the whole stairs ... then I remembered, wait, I guess it could have been one of my coworkers. |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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this thread has great potential -  |
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esetters21
Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Guess what I saw last night? I was entering my officetel at about 9pm. A man with his golf clubs was waiting for his car to come down from the lift. He was talking on his cell phone. He couldn't distinguish the glass facade from the open entry way and kept bumping into the glass til he found his way. After watching him struggle, stagger, and nearly fall down for a brief time I told him he should not be driving anywhere. He told me that he was sorry. My work was done. I hope he didn't hurt himself or anyone else on his way to where he absolutely had to drive to. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| esetters21 wrote: |
| Guess what I saw last night? I was entering my officetel at about 9pm. A man with his golf clubs was waiting for his car to come down from the lift. He was talking on his cell phone. He couldn't distinguish the glass facade from the open entry way and kept bumping into the glass til he found his way. After watching him struggle, stagger, and nearly fall down for a brief time I told him he should not be driving anywhere. He told me that he was sorry. My work was done. I hope he didn't hurt himself or anyone else on his way to where he absolutely had to drive to. |
That's interesting. Last night at 2AM I got a ride home with my American friend instead of my Korean friend because my American friend was less drunk, even though I'm much closer with my Korean friend. I hope my Korean friend wasn't offended. Another friend who lives further afield took a taxi home even though my Korean friend would have driven him. In fairness my Korean friend is a very good drunk driver and is also skilled at dealing with the police when he gets pulled over. I just hope he wasn't too disappointed that we all left him to drive home by himself last night. Oh well, I'll make some compliments about his new fishing equipment the next time I see him and I'm sure all will be fine. |
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Css
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: South of the river
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| What an odd thread. |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you know that Western foreigners who are 60 years and older consistently hang out iwth 18 year olds, and that all Westerners have no respect for older people? The principal of a small elementary school in a rural area told me so, and I don't question the comments of older people, so it's absolutely true. |
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ruffie
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