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creeper1
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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I wouldn't do a homestay because I want to get intimate with young Korean ladies. Bringing them to my host family may not be so good.
There is always the love motel I guess. |
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radcon
Joined: 23 May 2011
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| One should not fear or disdain living around and interacting with children, older adults, and the elderly. |
May I send my kids and my grandparents to live with you for the next year? If two kids are not enough for you, I can send my nieces and nephews as well. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| One should not fear or disdain living around and interacting with children, older adults, and the elderly. |
May I send my kids and my grandparents to live with you for the next year? If two kids are not enough for you, I can send my nieces and nephews as well. |
Tuition +Room/Board is 75,000 dollars a year per pupil.
Adults seeking minors to live with them is far different from an Adult engaged in a homestay. But depending on circumstances, adoption or temporary foster care is certainly something that one should be prepared to offer.
But yes, if one is fine with roomates, one should be fine with homestay.
There's something, subtely immoral about not being able to be yourself simply because a family is around. Of course we tone down the language when kids are around, but they aren't around 24-7. It's like people who won't accept their parents as facebook friends. If things are as great in one's life as they claim they are, they shouldn't be afraid to have such things (barring extreme cases). If sitting at a dinner table with a family causes someone to break out in hives, something is a little off. A stable member of a stable society should be able to handle such things. |
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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:18 am Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| radcon wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| One should not fear or disdain living around and interacting with children, older adults, and the elderly. |
May I send my kids and my grandparents to live with you for the next year? If two kids are not enough for you, I can send my nieces and nephews as well. |
Tuition +Room/Board is 75,000 dollars a year per pupil.
Adults seeking minors to live with them is far different from an Adult engaged in a homestay. But depending on circumstances, adoption or temporary foster care is certainly something that one should be prepared to offer.
But yes, if one is fine with roomates, one should be fine with homestay.
There's something, subtely immoral about not being able to be yourself simply because a family is around. Of course we tone down the language when kids are around, but they aren't around 24-7. It's like people who won't accept their parents as facebook friends. If things are as great in one's life as they claim they are, they shouldn't be afraid to have such things (barring extreme cases). If sitting at a dinner table with a family causes someone to break out in hives, something is a little off. A stable member of a stable society should be able to handle such things. |
Steelrails charges more than Andover or Eton. Better get some results, homie.
That said, living in a home that a Korean family rolls through several times a year, I will say it can get rather stressful. Then again, the Koreans in question are totally freaking nuts, so it might have more to do with that. |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 5:22 am Post subject: |
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When I first came to Korea in 1996, I had a home-stay for a year and it wasn't that bad. It was with the director and his wife...and they were always at the hagwon. It's bearable.
The thing that makes me smile is her expectations of the Korean education system. She wants to find out if it's as rigid as rumored. Um...yeah...and more so!! If she thinks she's going to change anything, she's mistaken. If she's lucky, she'll be placed in some high level school in Seoul. I'd give her 6 months in the boonies before jumping ship. If she's in Seoul, she just might make it! |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| On the contrary, I think she'll have an easy ride, because the Korean PR machine wouldn't want any negative publicity, especially with a Fulbright Scholar, they'll make sure she's placed in a Potemkin village of sorts. Judging by the way students can do a 180 degrees on open class days, finding one wouldn't be a problem. |
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