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blunder1983
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 Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject: Xmas hyperactivity |
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Are your kids bouncing off the wall about Christmas? I started an advent calendar in my classes, put up a few decorations and fairy lights and my kids are freaking out about it all.
Just makes teaching them that bit more fun! |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Any chance you could be mistaking a sugar-induced high for enthusiasm? |
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joe_doufu
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| What's an advent calendar? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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My students think they'll get even more candy and other treats than they did at Halloween... but they'll each only get from me a handwritten card from the stacks of holiday greeting cards I've built up.
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| What's an advent calendar? |
Maybe the ones with the flaps you lift to get candy!  |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
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| Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:28 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| joe_doufu wrote: |
| What's an advent calendar? |
Maybe the ones with the flaps you lift to get candy! |
Huh? |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
| What's an advent calendar? |
Maybe the ones with the flaps you lift to get candy! |
Huh? |
You grew up in the basement, chained to the wall, didn't you. Admit it.
Blunder: No. My students aren't more rowdy than usual. Next week, though, we start the Christmas festivities, so maybe I'll see some of the perk up a bit. Lots of big tests coming up, though, so I expect to see zombie status.
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:40 am Post subject: |
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You grew up in the basement, chained to the wall, didn't you. Admit it.
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You could probably add your age to any one of the other posters on Dave's and still total fewer years on this earth than my age. I have vaguely heard of Advent, but had never heard of an advent calendar before blunder began posting about it the other day.
It is not wise to assume that your family/church customs are universal. None of them are. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| You could probably add your age to any one of the other posters on Dave's and still total fewer years on this earth than my age. |
Schwa? desultude? captain kirk?... you must be pushing 90 !
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| I have vaguely heard of Advent, but had never heard of an advent calendar before blunder began posting about it the other day. It is not wise to assume that your family/church customs are universal. None of them are. |
Good point.
Nearly 75% of Koreans in this part of Korea aren't Christian and don't celebrate Christmas, so the holiday is just a day off work, and little activity happens.
Let's not assume that most Koreans care at all about Dec 25th.
Seoul is famous for having a MUCH higher percentage of Christians: it's all that emulating the modern wealthy Western countries thing. |
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ilovebdt
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| You could probably add your age to any one of the other posters on Dave's and still total fewer years on this earth than my age. |
Schwa? desultude? captain kirk?... you must be pushing 90 !
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| I have vaguely heard of Advent, but had never heard of an advent calendar before blunder began posting about it the other day. It is not wise to assume that your family/church customs are universal. None of them are. |
Good point.
Nearly 75% of Koreans in this part of Korea aren't Christian and don't celebrate Christmas, so the holiday is just a day off work, and little activity happens.
Let's not assume that most Koreans care at all about Dec 25th.
Seoul is famous for having a MUCH higher percentage of Christians: it's all that emulating the modern wealthy Western countries thing. |
I live in a rural town and my students all know the toons for Christian carols and love singing them. And here I don't have to worry about getting sued by the Humanist League or Canadian Jewish Congress for doing it, lol. I think they're more excited about the idea than you might think, especially when they're only doing Christmas stuff in the foreigner's lessons. |
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canuck in Ansan
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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I had an advent calendar pretty much every year growing up (in Canada)....I even got one last year to be nostalgic. It was a Christmas Shrek one 
Just this cardboard thing with a little door for every day in Dec, until Christmas. Open up the little door and you've got a yummy chocolate. |
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I guess it must be a UK thing.
