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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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 Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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My newest observation:
There are three people in my school who can make themselves understood in English. Two of them are the Korean English teachers. One of them is quite fluent. The other one isn't. We'll leave it at that. The third one who speaks English, better than one of the English teachers, is the janitor/maintainence man.
From this I conclude that janitors in Korea would make better English teachers than half the regular Korean English staff. |
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Kenny Kimchee
Joined: 12 May 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:09 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
My newest observation:
There are three people in my school who can make themselves understood in English. Two of them are the Korean English teachers. One of them is quite fluent. The other one isn't. We'll leave it at that. The third one who speaks English, better than one of the English teachers, is the janitor/maintainence man.
From this I conclude that janitors in Korea would make better English teachers than half the regular Korean English staff. |
I'm a JET at JHS in Japan - same story here. The best English speaker at one of my schools isn't one of the three Japanese Teacher's of English (JTE) - it's the art teacher. The best English speaker at one of my other schools isn't one of the three JTEs, it's a social studies teacher.
Different story with the maintenance man, though. Sometimes I'll go and have a cigarette with the groundskeeper in his little shack. I've been here two years and have worked my way up to a low-intermediate level of speaking and listening but I've got no idea what this dude is saying. I'll hit the shack and dude will start going off in his dialect-heavy, old dude mumbling Japanese and I'll be clueless. It's funny, though - the good old "nod and smile" goes a long way. I'll understand about 5% of what he's saying but just nod and smile and he keeps going. I guess he's lonely trimming the shrubs and sitting out in that shack by himself all day... |
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deessell
Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:44 am Post subject: |
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[color=cyan]There are three people in my school who can make themselves understood in English. Two of them are the Korean English teachers. One of them is quite fluent. The other one isn't. We'll leave it at that. The third one who speaks English, better than one of the English teachers, is the janitor/maintainence man.
From this I conclude that janitors in Korea would make better English teachers than half the regular Korean English staff.[/color]
I think you will find the janitor is an ex English teacher. Mine is, and I work in a High School too.
Is that what happens to English teachers when they retire..they become janitors :shock |
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| My school doesn't have a janitor. The school makes the students do all the work. Everything from cleaning the batthroom, mopping floors and picking weeds. There is a maintenance dude but I only see him helping people with computers or replacing lightbulbs. |
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