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Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

Have you ever taught a class or done any tutoring while drunk?

Have you ever witnessed or had a drunk teacher?

Has your friend taught drunk and shared a funny story about it?

Now is your chance to entertain us. Stories don't need to be limited to Korea.

Unfortunately, I don't have any funny drunk stories. I've had a few drinks with the principal during lunch. He said if any other teachers said anything about it I could send them directly to him. But we were far from drunk.

Here are a coup videos of a drunk and a high teachers:

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=cGA7kGPEVPE

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=c9iRb7Q9JAg&feature=related

MollyBloom · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Location: James Joyce's pants

I guess I sort of taught tipsy once whilst getting my TEFL certification in France. We drank wine during lunch and then had to go to a class...but I guess it was more where I was the student in that situation now that I think about it.

Draz · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Location: Land of Morning Clam

I regularly dream of a world where it is acceptable to teach drunk. When I'm drunk I'm louder, happier, and more relaxed. (Sober I'm quiet, miserable, and uptight.) Teaching and drinking would be the perfect combination.

Unfortunately it is not okay to go to work drunk. Dammit!

okokok · Joined: 27 Aug 2006

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

"Teaching" while drunk is shameful.

rooster_2006 · Joined: 14 Oct 2007

I've never taught drunk. Never.

I try to avoid getting drunk when I have a lesson the next morning (or right after I wake up), as well.

Unfortunately, I still get asked by bosses/co-teachers (note: in a friendly, non-critical way) if I drank han-jan last night because my eyes are red. Actually, in those cases, I was simply sleep deprived because I'm a student as well and need to pull all-nighters sometimes.

Come on folks, this is not Burger King. You can't drink on shift.

poet13 · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 2:32 pm Post subject:

A few years ago, a friend and I went out on a Thursday night for my birthday. I worked at a hagwon. First class at 2:30pm.....except Fridays. Forgot about the Friday 11am ajjumma class until about 6:30 am. While riding home (bicycle) I crashed and cracked my head from my eye all the way to the top. Also broke a rib (about 3 from the top - speared with my bikes sprint bar)
Went to bed. Woke up at 11:10 when the boss called me. Stumbled to class looking like hell.
Didn't know my head was broken. Couldn't eat properly for a couple of weeks. Couldn't ride cause I had no balance. After two weeks I tried to do a pushup. Ripping pain in my uppper chest. Went to a doctor. Doc checks me out, and my eyes don't match. Sends me for xrays <chest knee (punctures from front sprocket) and head>. Says my head is broken. I said.that explains a lot.

Never got crazy on a school night again.

petethebrick · Joined: 25 Jul 2006

I taught while completely drunk out of my mind most saturday mornings during me first job here - it was their fault for having classes on saturdays I reckon. There were a lot of word search puzzles distributed back in those days ha Laughing

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

Last class of the semester/month, teaching at an adult hagwon, going out drinking with the students as a farewell class/party. Sure. It was more socializing than teaching, and it was encouraged by the school.

Gotta love Korea, the only place I've ever been where it's actually encouraged to drink on the job.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 3:29 pm Post subject:

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Only twice. Once was after Korea vs. Togo when I got in at five after partying, took basically a nap and set two alarm clocks, and came in to sub another teacher's class first thing in the morning. The other was an evening class after volleyball game / piss-up with the teachers from another school. The students seemed to think it was perfectly normal that the teacher would come in smelling of beer and soju after coming straight from such an event.

BS.Dos. · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

I'm at the age now where hangovers and 'moving' about are pretty much physically impossible. The only thing I can manage to do whilst hungover is move a mouse about. To that end, I only drink when I've got at least a 10-hour recovery window the next day.

jvalmer · Joined: 06 Jun 2003

It wasn't me but a CT. This was in an all boys public middle school. A couple years back, I think it was Decemberish, maybe the second last week of classes. We had our annual English department lunch. My classes were done for the day. But, the head English department teacher, a lady in her mid-40's suggested we polish off a bottle of soju. The other 3 lady teachers didn't drink any, so it was me and the head honcho that had to down the bottle. However, she had one more class. She got through it okay, but I wasn't in her class at the time to see how the class went..

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

One of my coworkers once had to teach with one of the worst hangovers I've ever seen someone have. In the toilets I heard someone with what I thought was explosive diarhea but it turned out it was him puking his guts out. Later when I saw him his eyes were litteraly bulging, he was pale as a ghost and looked like he just wanted to die. This was at noon after he had to teach two morning classes. I can only imagine what hell that was.

Ramen · Joined: 15 Apr 2008

I often see mostly male Korean teachers either drunk or hung over from night before come in to teach. They don't teach, but they claim they're sick and spend the day in the teacher's room. Alcohol smell reaks in the teacher's room.