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VorcePA
Joined: 02 Nov 2009
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
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 Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:35 am Post subject: |
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| ThingsComeAround wrote: |
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Coming from someone that started playing Starcraft when it first came out (part 1 that is), are you really sure you can devote enough time to play competitively? How old are you?
Not a swipe, but the people playing are kids. I mean they are 16-20 and not much older than that (save Boxer)- they play for ten hours as practice with their league and they don't even get to play every match.
Watch the games on Youtube posted by HuskyStarcraft & Jon747. Those players don't mess around- they play for big stakes: like 60K a year +. When they lose, those tears are for real! 
Anyway, you are going to teach English, so that leaves little time for Starcraft practice. Even if you play on an Asia server now, you may not be on the level as some kids you will be teaching. That means you should just incorporate Starcraft & video games into your lesson to keep your class interested, and watch Starcraft TV or see the games live in Seoul on your weekends. Good luck!
PS- if anyone knows how to get those silly Starcraft jackets, let me know! They look damn good!  |
You missed the part in my OP where I said I was never going to be on that level. "I play competitively" doesn't mean "I am a capable tournament player". And yeah, I played against Koreans and a few Chinese in Starcraft 1. They were all half my age and toyed with me. :p |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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| [q. I don't expect them to be Americans, but I do expect them to embrace and warmly welcome the Westerners they invited to their country rather than being uncomfortably indifferent about the situation.. |
The people that invited you to the country were either the government or your hakwon director. The general populace did not, therefore they have a right to be as uncomfortably indifferent as they want. |
That is absolutely correct. It's no different anywhere else even though I felt more welcome in many other places where I met friendly people in any random public place, because they approached me to say, "Hi, nice to meet you. Where are you from. etc." In the US, companies invite Chinese and Indians over to do entry level professional jobs like accountant, junior cost analyst, and contracts specialist while many Americans don't want them there taking these jobs American grads need to fill. Fact is, they were invited by companies looking to save a buck hiring someone they think is going to work harder than Americans, but the general populace don't embrace them. There is a lot of xenophobia back home towards Asian people and they only usually talk to us to do business via their gas stations and motels. I can talk to them just fine to their surprise, because I'm used to having all kinds of people in my life from going to uni with more foreigners than Americans and having many foreign professors. I'm just accustomed to being more talkative and being actively involved in a community than what is possible where I live and work right now.
There's no need to be political about Korea, Balzor. I feel neither pro Korea nor anti-Korea, just neutral in that I believe they are doing many right things in creating and protecting their livelihood. Korea is going to be just fine doing what it's doing and doesn't care what foreigners think. You could rationally feel political about a country and people in need such as Myanmar. |
I'm not Balzor. |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:00 am Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| AsiaESLbound wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| AsiaESLbound wrote: |
| [q. I don't expect them to be Americans, but I do expect them to embrace and warmly welcome the Westerners they invited to their country rather than being uncomfortably indifferent about the situation.. |
The people that invited you to the country were either the government or your hakwon director. The general populace did not, therefore they have a right to be as uncomfortably indifferent as they want. |
That is absolutely correct. It's no different anywhere else even though I felt more welcome in many other places where I met friendly people in any random public place, because they approached me to say, "Hi, nice to meet you. Where are you from. etc." In the US, companies invite Chinese and Indians over to do entry level professional jobs like accountant, junior cost analyst, and contracts specialist while many Americans don't want them there taking these jobs American grads need to fill. Fact is, they were invited by companies looking to save a buck hiring someone they think is going to work harder than Americans, but the general populace don't embrace them. There is a lot of xenophobia back home towards Asian people and they only usually talk to us to do business via their gas stations and motels. I can talk to them just fine to their surprise, because I'm used to having all kinds of people in my life from going to uni with more foreigners than Americans and having many foreign professors. I'm just accustomed to being more talkative and being actively involved in a community than what is possible where I live and work right now.
There's no need to be political about Korea, Balzor. I feel neither pro Korea nor anti-Korea, just neutral in that I believe they are doing many right things in creating and protecting their livelihood. Korea is going to be just fine doing what it's doing and doesn't care what foreigners think. You could rationally feel political about a country and people in need such as Myanmar. |
I'm not Balzor. |
Jesus? Is that you man?
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