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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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 Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject: Swine flu papers |
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| When I walked int o my PS today I was given a bunch of papers about the Swine Flu. Is this something we all got today? |
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kiwiliz
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Not so far, but I am not in at my home school until next week |
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marlow
Joined: 06 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Yup. Got them. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Say anything relevant in English? |
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marlow
Joined: 06 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Say anything relevant in English? |
No.
It's just common sense stuff about the flu.
However, there is a document in Korean the school got with a bunch of stuff about how to deal with foreigner teachers--they shouldn't travel, they should stay at home for 7 days if they are just arriving, probably more offensive stuff like tell us not to go to foreigner bars, but my co-teacher isn't a *****, so she just ignores the offensive stuff. |
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climber159
Joined: 02 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep. Some Korean teacher I've never seen before shoved a paper in my face and said "read." It's just a sheet of flu facts. How it's spread and yadda, yadda. Surprisingly, nothing about increasing my daily intake of kimchi...hmm. |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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Yup.
My favorite part, "Try to avoid contact with people who appear to have fever or respiratory symptoms."
How about sending home the numerous students who show these symptoms.
Still, pretty standard stuff. |
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rationality
Joined: 05 Jul 2007
Location: Some where in S. Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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tob55
Joined: 29 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject: Papers |
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| Just read them, nothing major. General information about common sense health maintenance. One page took about 1 - 2 minutes to read through. My co-teacher laughed as did I when she mentioned it, and I pretended to cough and said, "I have a sore throat, I think I should go home for a week." She laughed again and said, "get back to work" to which we laughed a third time. |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| rationality wrote: |
| Two weeks ago, I had a day of third grade classes in which there were a couple of snot noses coughing all over me between classes. I asked the co-teacher repeatedly to tell the kids to give me a little breathing space. She thought that it was funny, told the toddlers to sit down, but next class the same thing happened again. And wouldn't you know, I got very ill with some kind of cold that started in my bronchial tubes instead of the usual sinuses. This infection has been very hard to shake off; even after taking penicillin for 8 days, my respiratory is still clogged with phlegm. So if I have ever contracted the dam swine flu, it would be from them; not the other way around... Teaching is an occupational hazard! |
What is your intake of dairy products? If it is high reduce it and see if your thick mucous decreases. |
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nicam
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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Got that nifty little paper myself.
My coteacher was like, "have you been abroad lately?," and I was like, "psht, where would I go? I'm here every day," and we all started cracking up.
Then we had some fun with the ear thermometer. |
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refikaM
Joined: 06 May 2006
Location: Gangwondo
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 11:02 pm Post subject: flu |
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| I had the same exact serious respitory flu that rationality got... Thot I had pneumonia and so did the doc at first.. Sickest I'd been in a couple of decades! Took a good TEN days to start even just feeling better.. It's been passed around my small city.. Just about every FT has had some form of it.. Doc didn't check me for swine flu (but asked about the symptoms which include nausea/vomiting on top of the typical flu symtoms), but seemed to know the symptoms well enough that he ruled it out. However, he did take some blood tests (to check for pneumonia/infection) so maybe I was tested for it.. I dunno... Anyway, the folks at my school didn't freak out about it.. were just concerned. |
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I-am-me
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Hermit Kingdom
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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| I just got those papers. I asked if all the other teachers got them and was told no. I refused to sign them. They can kiss my ass!!!!! I dont play those games. |
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JoelCosmeJr
Joined: 01 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 1:21 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I got that paper today. I laughed about it and my co-teacher was talking about how so many people have died from it compared to the regular flu, which I think is not so, but whatever. Friends were told at their hagwon that they are to stay away from foreigners (and itaewon and hongdae), that their boss was serious about it. |
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marlow
Joined: 06 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| I-am-me wrote: |
| I refused to sign them. |
I wasn't asked to sign anything.  No way I'll do that. |
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