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Honeybee
Joined: 15 Jan 2004
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A friend of mine attended that Church for a while and was considering working for them, From what I heard from her, it sounded like a great place to live, and the teachers got lots of good benefits, they are paid in US dollars and there were some other benefits that I can't remember, |
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J.B. Clamence
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| they are paid in US dollars |
That's not such a good benefit. The dollar has been falling against the won ever since I got here (a year and a half ago). I'm glad I don't get paid in US dollars. If I did, I would have lost a lot of money. |
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Honeybee
Joined: 15 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:00 am Post subject: |
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Actually I may have been mistaken, I think American staff have the option of having part of their pay paid into a US bank account.....but it was last year and my menory is a little hazy.
I'll stick to what I'm sure about, and thats my flatmate thought it would be a great place to work, and the staff se met were very happy working there. |
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Dawn
Joined: 06 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| As of last year, they were paying a little less than half the salary in U.S. dollars and the rest in Korean won, with the portion paid in won supposedly being enough to cover cost of living. They also provided a decent settlement allowance for teachers coming from overseas. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| the saint wrote: |
| matthewwoodford wrote: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| Oh, and another side note: Catholics are not considered Christian here. |
I don't think they're considered Christian in America, either  |
This seems to be a common prejudice among young christians. Weird people. |
Rather than see it as prejudice, you might want to actually ask someone who thinks this way why they do. Although I disagree, I find many other Christians think as you say for reasons which I find understandable. I have also spoken to Catholics who think the same way about non-Catholics and, again, I find it understandable. I wouldn't say that this is confined to young people at all (unless you were referring to Korea where I have little experience so far).
Faith has to be narrow by definition, so I can hardly blame them for believing what they do and defining their views as such. In fact, I respect their commitment to what they believe. What there is no room for is prejudice and lack of respect, and I guess we would agree there.
So, hopefully, I have done something to remove the epithet of them being "weird people"  |
When I grew up in Montreal, a very Catholic part of Canada, protestants were definitely considered second class people by us Catholics. By us anglophone Catholics, protestants were considered maybe only one step above French Canadians.
Those most favored by God (from highest to lowest)
1. English speaking Catholics who own sailboats
2. English speaking Catholics who own powerboats
3. English speaking Catholics who spell color with U and say schedule like "shed-yule".
4. Atheists
5. Greeks as long as they keep their trap shut about Orthodox rites and keep the baklava flowing
6. Jews who make really good bagels and serve excellent smoked meat
7. Rabid stray dogs
8. Parking meter cops
9. Cops putting a metal boot on your tire for non payment of parking tickets
10. Newfoundlanders sharing out their bottle of Screech
11. English speaking protestants
12. Newfoundlanders
13. Whores
14. Americans
15. Catholic French Canadians
16. Protestant French Canadians
17. Albertans
(No one in Montreal really knew about BC back in the '70s.)
In many places in eastern Canada, Catholicism has special status under the law (public financing for schools, for example) while protestants have none.
The situation is almost the total opposite in the USA. Catholics are not considered the vanilla default expression of the Christian religion, but a curious sect worthy of suspicion for a) having a higher allegiance to the Pope and not the constitution b) generally accepting evolution/Big Bang/Genesis is a myth and not getting particularly bent out of shape by having priests and other Catholic intellectual thinkers within the fold who accept the possible non-divinity of Jesus, accept that his resurrection was just so much myth, and while teaching "Bible as literature" courses in university espouse the view that the New Testament has too much dialog. |
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tommynomad
Joined: 24 Jul 2004
Location: on the move
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ahahahahahaaha!
Hilarious portrait of Montrealers and their hierarchies. mmt, you slay me.
(though wouldn't English-speaking catholic whores move up a few spots?)
Whenever I meet Asian folks thinking of visiting Canada, I tell them to give Vancouver/Victoria a pass (though I like the first and love the latter) and make time for Montreal/Quebec in their itinerary. I lived in la Ville in the early 80s, and went up to Montreal as often as possible for young teenager. It is the most vibrant, fascinating city I've seen in the Americas.
One of my fave Mtl/Catholic moments comes from the film "Jesus de Montreal:"
A play's director drops in at an actress' house to enlist her for his play (the Passion). She comes out of the bedroom wearing a tshirt and panties. After a minute or two of conversation, the priest whose church commissioned the play emerges from the same bedroom while doing up his shirt. He sees the director, has a moment of recognition, shrugs and says:
"I'm not a very good priest." |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:26 am Post subject: |
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One of my fave Mtl/Catholic moments comes from the film "Jesus de Montreal:"
A play's director drops in at an actress' house to enlist her for his play (the Passion). She comes out of the bedroom wearing a tshirt and panties. After a minute or two of conversation, the priest whose church commissioned the play emerges from the same bedroom while doing up his shirt. He sees the director, has a moment of recognition, shrugs and says:
"I'm not a very good priest." |
I loved that movie. I like the part where the new agers are talking to the actors and one of them asks "have you been... contacted?"
And the beer commercial lyrics are hillarious too.
The worst thing I ever saw was a dubbed version of this movie on CBC. Not only did they change the lyrics to the beer commercial, removing all the biting satire (mmmmm maybe because CBC's main advertisers are beer companies?), but then the porno dubbing scene made zero sense. They're dubbing english porno movies into english? Eh? Cha.
Vancouver/Victoria I think are well worth it but I'd say stop in Montreal for sure. Give Toronto a pass, although I spent a third of my life there and consider it my home. |
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