Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I was thinking about this for my one kindie class, anyway, though I wouldn't mind also trying it at hogwan. Anyone else thought about it or given it a try? I mean, we all know what child hygene is like over here, regardless of how vigorously Koreans brush their teeth or scrub in the showers. It's the only country I've seen that has toilet rolls absolutely everywhere but in the toilet. Maybe a good trend to start?

[gypsyfish]

You don't have a hair on your butt if you don't do it.

[Derrek]

No, but i'd find it slightly arousing if my girlfriend wore them around the house. Would sort of remind me of that movie, Animal House.

[fidel]

[trevorcollins]

[squat toilet]

Do it!

Hell, when i was teaching I used to wear a full anti-contamination suit just like those dudes who clipped E.T.

Here I am preparing for class:

[agraham]

How about don't suck on your fingers?

[peppermint]

keep them on hand maybe to clean up whatever, but unless you're driving, gloves are unacceptable work attire.

[jazblanc77]

If you are afraid of germs, washing your hands after every class and not touching your eyes, nose or mouth while in class (why would you want to anyways?!), will adequately protect you from contracting their illnesses. Well, that and teaching them to cover their mouths when they sneeze/cough (this goes for teaching assistants as well!).

If you really want to cover your butt, incorporate going to the bathroom and washing everyone's hands into your class. This way they won't interrupt your class with requests to go to the bathroom, they will be clean, and they learn some practical English like "wash your hands", "use the soap", "turn on the water", etc.

[casey's moon]

[agraham]

[Homer]

Yes but first world sanitation has gone way beyond the pale into the realm of psychotic cleansiness!

There has to be a happy medium between lower levels of sanitation and the completely freaky levels we have back home!

As for the gloves thing...good example of one of us westerners taking the germ fear way too far.
I say, wash your hands with soap before and after class if you must and if it makes you feel better.

Teaching in latex gloves? Hate to break it to you but you are not performing open heart surgery here.

I mean back home a kid comes home with mud on his scraped knee and the parents call 911 and ask for a decontamination chamber or rush to the emergency room....

There is sanitation (the reasonable kind) and then there is over-sanitation (the sad kind).

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Homer, you feel that Korean bathrooms are reasonably clean?

What the hell are you smoking? You like standing in piles of saliva, surrounded by piles of dung-smeared paper, cigarette butts and an inch of slime?

You feel that washing your hands with soap and hot water and drying them afterwards with a clean towel is psychotic?

Remind me never to eat your cooking.

[margaret]

I always carry "water tissue" for situations where there's no soap and water to wash my hands. The only thing is, I haven't figured out if they actually contain a disinfectant, like the hand sanitizer in the U. S. or if they just smear the germs around.
Margaret

[Homer]

Pyongshin Sangja,


As usual you are miss-reading my post on purpose and then inventing your very own interpretation of what I said.

If you had bothered to read what I wrote you would have seen I said washing your hands is a reasonable measure to take if one feels the need for extra germ protection.

I did not say washing one's hands was a freaky level of sanitation.

Next time you try and bash my post (you seem to need to do so very often) please try and read the whole thing and to not invent fantasy posts.

Cheers