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Summer Wine
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 Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:58 pm Post subject: Any tips from teachers in rural Pocheon |
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I am trying to discover if anyone is currently teaching a rural school in the Pocheon area and what their conditions are like.
1.) Are you accommodated in Pocheon-si but work outside of Pocheon-si?
2.) How much travel time do you have each day if yes?
3.) Does the school cover the costs of bus travel?
4.) Do you get a ride with co-teachers?
5.) If you live near your school in a ruarl area, how far are you from the school?
If there are any other questions you feel I should be asking, then please enlighten me.
Thanks for any advice. |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:28 am Post subject: |
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blip, dip, erp, BUMP  |
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Dr. Whom
Joined: 06 Mar 2010
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I would say, find out where you can get Xanax or Valium. You're
gonna need it. |
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Fishead soup
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Drink lots of Makoli. |
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Summer Wine
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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Thats so funny guys.  I chose to be rural, so I am sort of realistic about how life is going to be there.
I am more interested in specifics from teachers currently teaching in the region as to thier conditions. I am sure that it will be different than working in a city and I actually like makoli, so thats not a negative for me.
I am interested in finding how normal it is for a teacher to be housed near a school that is in the middle of no where, or do they have to travel a fair distance each day? |
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shostahoosier
Joined: 14 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:05 pm Post subject: Re: Any tips from teachers in rural Pocheon |
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| Summer Wine wrote: |
I am trying to discover if anyone is currently teaching a rural school in the Pocheon area and what their conditions are like.
1.) Are you accommodated in Pocheon-si but work outside of Pocheon-si?
2.) How much travel time do you have each day if yes?
3.) Does the school cover the costs of bus travel?
4.) Do you get a ride with co-teachers?
5.) If you live near your school in a ruarl area, how far are you from the school?
If there are any other questions you feel I should be asking, then please enlighten me.
Thanks for any advice. |
"Summer"...where exactly will you be in Pocheon? It was a county that became a city so its HUGE area wise and that could make a lot of difference.
I currently live in VERY rural Pocheon (almost Cheorwon...about 40-50 minutes from "downtown" Pocheon-si) and I love it for the most part. I would have preferred an urban location on a subway line, but what I have isnt bad (of course I'm also not impressed by Seoul so I dont have the urge to be there every night).
To answer your questions:
1. Most people I know either live in Pocheon-si and work here, or live in a nearby city (Uijeongbu or Cheorwon) and commute into Pocheon-si. There's no reason to live here if you dont work here. 
2. I travel 15 minutes to work, but I know some people who go as much as an hour. Its a BIG city (area wise).
3. I think this is in the contract (travel allowance). I dont ask my school for travel allowance because...
4. ...I get a ride to and from school either with the other teachers or on the school's bus. It literally picks me up at my front doorstep...but I think I'm a special exception.
5. I live about 5KM from my school which is relatively close because there's nothing else around except for mountains and farmland. The other foreigner in my town lives in a (very nice!) teacher's dorm behind his school and he'll go home and take naps when he's not teaching classes.
If you are placed in the southern, more urban part of Pocheon-si...it wont be much different from anywhere else in Gyeonggi-do as you can find most things there...and what you cant find you can get in Uijeongbu or you can take the express bus to Seoul (which takes about an hour to get to Dongseoul Terminal).
If you're placed up north (I'm on the Gangwon-do border), then things could be a bit more difficult if you NEED foreign things.
You can PM me if you have more questions...the ex-pats in Pocheon are friendly. |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for that information. Its exactly what I needed.
Sent you a pm with the name o my school, maybe you know someone who worked there or knows something more about it. |
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