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tigercat
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject: Toilet paper at school |
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I have no more classes today and I'm bored. I'm also annoyed at the constant lack of toilet paper at my school. Seriously, how cheap do you have to be to not buy any toilet paper for your school, ever?!  |
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fromtheuk
Joined: 31 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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We have lots of toilet paper.  |
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Big Mac
Joined: 17 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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I bring my own, but they usually have the communal toilet paper outside the washroom stalls. I'd rather have it in the stalls, but it seems to be common in Korea to make it inconvenient to access toilet paper.
My bigger problem is with the lack of soap. I bring my own. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Your school probably has some but it's hiding in the storeroom in the main office. |
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Misera
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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| constant lack? >_> my school is too poor to buy toilet paper.. we don't even have toilet paper holders in the bathroom.. everyone brings their own including the students and the administrators. |
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tigercat
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Big Mac wrote: |
I bring my own, but they usually have the communal toilet paper outside the washroom stalls. I'd rather have it in the stalls, but it seems to be common in Korea to make it inconvenient to access toilet paper.
My bigger problem is with the lack of soap. I bring my own. |
Ohh I've given up on soap. It's hand sanitizer time. 
Yeah, my other school has communal TP... still better than no TP. |
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tigercat
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Misera wrote: |
| constant lack? >_> my school is too poor to buy toilet paper.. we don't even have toilet paper holders in the bathroom.. everyone brings their own including the students and the administrators. |
See, this is something I don't understand. Do you teach at a country school? I was under the impression that the government gives a crapload of money to country schools. My other country school has the nicest facilities out of all the schools I've taught in (it even has a heater in the washroom so it's not freezing when you go in there, and they just had money to build a new English classroom too), but the school I'm at now is just so different in comparison. Why is it that some country schools are so nice and other ones get no funding? |
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Cerriowen
Joined: 03 Jun 2006
Location: Pocheon
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| How about "no, so I bring my own"? |
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Misera
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| tigercat wrote: |
See, this is something I don't understand. Do you teach at a country school? I was under the impression that the government gives a crapload of money to country schools. My other country school has the nicest facilities out of all the schools I've taught in (it even has a heater in the washroom so it's not freezing when you go in there, and they just had money to build a new English classroom too), but the school I'm at now is just so different in comparison. Why is it that some country schools are so nice and other ones get no funding? |
Country school? Do you mean public school? Or do you mean country like out in the boonies?
I teach at a public school. No heater in the washroom.. freezing cold tap water.. heat off in my office when I had to desk warm (har..). Heat off during winter vacation during my winter camps so I had to use the music room that had heaters that took about 4 hours to heat up the room to maybe 60 F.. We do have an English classroom~ They spend the budget on things that are only part of whatever the budget is allocated for. English classroom-- purely on building the classroom (lots of useless stuff.. billions of monitors sitting behind my desk now after my coteachers and I ripped them off the desks), winter camp budget-- fully spent on "supplies" and crapload of food (half for themselves)... They just have a weird way of spending. I attempted to use part of the winter camp budget to get supplies for the English classroom but I was rejected.. instead they bought more food.
A lot of it just depends on the area your school is in. Should be the same back home. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| At my high school it's been pretty good lately, but not at my middle school. |
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fromtheuk
Joined: 31 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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I've just used the toilet during my lunch break. The 'cleaner' had cleaned the bathroom. How do I know? Because the floor was wet and it looked almost dirtier than it did this morning.
If you ever feel guilty for not working hard at your job, look at the cleaners and realize you do work fairly hard.
I can't believe this particular cleaner manages to keep her job. Not all of them are bad, but some of them just run an old, wet, dirty mop over the floor and think they have cleaned it.
My school is meant to be a model school and Korea claims to be the best in the world. What a pathetic joke, their cleaners are useless. |
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adamosity
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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| we usually have toilet paper, but printer/copy paper is rarer than dick cheney caring about people...;p |
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antoniothegreat
Joined: 28 Aug 2005
Location: Yangpyeong
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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advise to newbies. keep a bag of all the bathroom stuff you will need at school at your desk. i havie a small bag with soap, towel, toothbrush, toothpaste, mouthwash, deoderent, sand hanitizer (i realized i have lysdexia but i will leave that anyways) TP, and contact solution.
that makes life a lot easier. |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:19 am Post subject: |
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we always have plenty of TP, several bars of soap, electronic hand dryers (that sometimes work); the water is heated to lukewarm in winter, there are some artificial flowers, hand lotion, and even hair brushes on a shelf that's decorated with a plastic doiley.
our western toilets have bidets and are often warm - which I think is kinda not sanitary - bacteria loves warmth and all - but whatever - is nice.
they still clean w/just water - hosing it down ever so often - and it got real smelly for a while so I brought in a nice air freshener which managed to stay put for an entire semester.
overall the best bathroom in any school I've worked in here in K.
just wish the kids would wash their hands!!! oh well, can't have everything!  |
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Simplicity
Joined: 16 Feb 2009
Location: South Korea
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I've worked at two universities and both don't have any TP (My current job is at a national university too!!).
On one English camp with over 200 children the teachers had to band together and protest several times before they relented and bought some.
I've also worked in several middle and elementary schools in the country. Most of the bathrooms there were disgusting and unsurprisingly all but one had no toilet paper. |
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