Site Search:
 
Speak Korean Now!
Teach English Abroad and Get Paid to see the World!
Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index Korean Job Discussion Forums
"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!"
 
 FAQFAQ   SearchSearch   MemberlistMemberlist   UsergroupsUsergroups   RegisterRegister 
 ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 

I miss Korea
Goto page 1, 2  Next
 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion Forum
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
sillywilly



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Canada.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 9:44 am    Post subject: I miss Korea Reply with quote

Guys, I think I miss Korea. I don't know. What should i do? Im not sure I could hack a WHOLE year and I'd have to not take my kid....sigh. Know of anywhere that has like three month contracts? and payed airfare?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Tiger Beer



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Summercamps and Wintercamps.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
Pyongshin Sangja



Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just sign, get the airfare, ditch them when you arrive, and work illegally for three months. Sleazy? Yes. Just desserts? Perhaps.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website
kiwiboy_nz_99



Joined: 05 Jul 2003
Location: ...Enlightenment...

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't understand wanting to get a three month hit of Korea, you either like it or you don't, plus the more settled in you get the better it works for you.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Dan



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Sunny Glendale, CA

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

go to a hypnotherapist and have him work it so you don't remember there was ever such a thing as Korea.

Because if you don't, in about 5 months time, you are going to be back here talking about all the things you don't like about korea
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Mashimaro



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kiwiboy_nz_99 wrote:
I don't understand wanting to get a three month hit of Korea, you either like it or you don't.


The OP has kids!!! Understand now?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
lawyertood



Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul, Incheon and the World--working undercover for the MOJ

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And we in Korea miss you, too, sillywilly!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
hojucandy



Joined: 03 Feb 2003
Location: In a better place

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:24 pm    Post subject: Re: I miss Korea Reply with quote

sillywilly wrote:
I'd have to not take my kid....sigh.



why can't yu take yr kid?

koreans have kids too.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
sillywilly



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Canada.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OP? Whats that?

Thanks Layertood Smile

Um, well it sounds bad but I didnt actually find too much time and energy after a day of teaching kids his age to at home school him.my son fell behind. It would be unfare to bring him because of this,plus he was lonely.

Thanks for all the advice everyone. I might consider a camp.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
hojucandy



Joined: 03 Feb 2003
Location: In a better place

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

op = original poster

sorry silly willy. didn't mean to dis yu with my comment about kids. it seems yu are a single parent. that would be hard here.

i have my kids here at the moment (well 2 of them) but they are old. one is 22 and working. the other is only 14 and quite able to go off on his own - catch the subway to seoul and explore for himself. i got him a handphone for emergencies....

my kids were raised as expatriate children. pretty good life in general i think. they certainly have a broad experience. speak more than just english too.

best wishes in finding work that suits yu here. i know i would miss thye place terribly if i ever leave... (which i don;t intend to)
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
sillywilly



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Canada.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 6:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I didnt feel dissed. Were your kids born there? Is your 14 year old going to a foreign school? My son didnt learn tooo much Korean but his English started to take on a Korean sentence sructure so that he sounded like Yoda
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
hojucandy



Joined: 03 Feb 2003
Location: In a better place

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

my kids were born in australia and still live there with their mum. we are no longer married. we lived many years in papua new guinea. all have pretty fluent melanesian pidgin.

they are visiting me here. not for the fiirst time.

good long visit. 6 weeks for the young one, 10 for the older. the latter speaks good korean.

i have two more kids! am planning to bring another one up here very soon - perhaps for 6 months or longer. he is 21 and can work here.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Kwangjuchicken



Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shocked Shocked See a psychiatrist at once. Shocked Shocked Shocked
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
hojucandy



Joined: 03 Feb 2003
Location: In a better place

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kwangjuchicken wrote:
Shocked Shocked See a psychiatrist at once. Shocked Shocked Shocked



who - willy or me?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Kwangjuchicken



Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hojucandy wrote:
Kwangjuchicken wrote:
Shocked Shocked See a psychiatrist at once. Shocked Shocked Shocked



who - willy or me?



willy
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion Forum All times are GMT - 8 Hours
Goto page 1, 2  Next
Page 1 of 2

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum


This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling.
Contact Dave's ESL Cafe
Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved.

Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group

TEFL International Supports Dave's ESL Cafe
TEFL Courses, TESOL Course, English Teaching Jobs - TEFL International