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[periwinkle]

(Inspired by name-calling on another thread)

I doubt a princess could hack it here as a teacher. Anything's possible, of course. Well, I doubt they could hack it long term. I guess it depends how you define a "princess". To me, it's a vapid, self-indulgent, vain woman who cares little for other people, unless they serve a purpose in her life (eg. she can use them). I also think of a princess as someone with a lot of money, usually not a fortune created by her (daddy's money, hubby's money, etc.). May have whining tendencies. Likes to have evrything her way, and not likely to compromise.

I've never worked with a princess here, and I've worked at 2 lg. hakwons and a univ. with a staff of 22 teachers. All of the women were ambitious, adaptable, intelligent, compromising, and easy to work with.

Stories, please!!

[xingyiman]

[periwinkle]

Well, they aren't like that where I come from. Sorry for your experiences... God, I've been apolgetic lately. WTF...

Damn~ 49 views and no votes.

[cypher]

There's no option for me...I am slowly transforming myself into a princess.
Indulgent cab rides-the subways is for commoners.
Spa days-my ass needs scrubbing.
Eating out every night-how do you turn on the gas?

No wonder I beat all the odds and gained weight in Korea!

[DRAMA OVERKILL]

Yeah... one... ...

"I've got a migraine... these kids are just, like, so, you know? Just got my hair done - looks great, but the hairdresser: OH, MY, GOD!!! My mom would just like, you know, FREAK OUT if she saw the condition of the building I'm living at... And, I just don't get what these foreigner guys see in Koreans girls - I'm just like, so, YOU KNOW???"

(read this paragraph aloud at full speed to ge the full effect...)...

And, maybe couldn't be classified as a "princess", just an annoying girl who is too full of herself... like, you know???

[tomato]

I had to tolerate this woman on my first job here, which was in Kimcheon.
She was only half my age, but she took a stance that she knew twice as much as I did.
Either she had an IQ of 400 or I had an IQ of 25.

The director must have been hard up for foreign teachers, because she had him wound around her little finger.
She even showed her persnickety traits before she arrived.
She had to have living quarters which were just so.
I had to move into a smaller room so that she could move into my room.
She wasn't comfortable even there, so she slept on the couch in the living room.
Even then, she complained about the noise from the traffic.
In New Zealand, where she was from, everything was nice and quiet.

The teacher who lived in the largest room went back home.
By that time, I was the teacher with the highest seniority.
But the princess talked the director into letting her move in that room.
After all, the teachers tended to congregate in that room, and I wasn't sociable enough.
The teachers never congregated in her room anyway.
Apparently she wasn't the dazzling socialite she thought she was.

Then the director hired an unmarried couple.
So he had to give that room to the unmarried couple and Her Royal Majesty had to move out.

I was leaving at about that time, but that gave me malicious pleasure anyway.

[joe_doufu]

I know the type. I was in an exchange programme in Hong Kong (HKUST) and we had one who declared herself the blonde queen of Hong Kong. Nobody liked her, as far as I'm aware. She killed off our social life as a gang of exchange students because she'd take the initiative to organize outings for us, but would always choose the most expensive places in Lan Kwai Fong (where it can be US$10 a drink) because expat men would buy her drinks for free. When anybody proposed getting some culture or going to the beach or, heaven forbid, eating Chinese food, she'd get insulting. She loathed Chinese people and even turned her nose up at the totally cool european exchange students who were ethnically Asian. We were a small group and everybody was too polite to organize outings without her, so it meant we just didn't get together.

[SPINOZA]

Joe, was that girl Chinese herself or Western or what? "Blonde queen" suggests Western but I wasn't sure. If she's Western I hope something unimaginably horrible happens to her - she deserves it with that attitude!

Korean princesses? I know a few middle schoolers who fit that description! But adults? No way. I'm not just saying this, I bloody mean it. ALL the Korean women I've met have been really lovely people, not a bad bone in their bodies. Just really nice women, no mystique to it.

Two exceptions (one isn't really an exception because generally she's super-cool; must've been that time of the month or something):

1. A co-teacher about 4 weeks ago was being THE most unreasonable b1tch. Some bullsh1t situation cropped up at work and she interrupted my class to make me phone another colleague to ask the whereabouts of some books, in the belief it was my fault they were lost. She was extremely apologetic later on and we're friends again.

2. Me and a friend were in Route 66, Hongdae. My friend was chatting to two K-girls. They were nothing special to look at so I wasn't interested in the conversation. However, I overheard one girl, whose English was very good, start to ridicule my friend. A joke I enjoy, and if my friend was being an arse he deserves to be embarrassed by a couple of birds, but this sounded rather unpleasant, very superior and condescending, downright nasty. I had a big argument with her. She was a complete and utter b1tch, no other word for her. She said she studies French Literature at university. I asked her her name in French, hold old she is, what time is it, do you like Kimchie etc etc and she didn't have an effing clue. I was drunk and went too far, but even so, her attitude stank like a feces-encrusted public lavatory. I HATE rude people so I'm afraid I LET HER HAVE IT!

[SPINOZA]

Oops, the thread's about foreign princesses. Sorry, I mis-read it.

Have I worked with a foreign princess? Not here.

[Homer]

So far no....but you never know what the future holds do you?

[jacl]

No, but if I do, I pitty the fool. I don't tolerate supidity. I am an evil man.

[weatherman]

I don't understand the antagonism against prinesses, whether they be Korean, (got to love them) or western. To me they are some of the more easeir types to deal with in Korea. You have to have the attitude to deal with them. It is the Fem-facists that I have a hard time with.

It is the f.o.ps that are prepared for the Fem-facists lights. Start dealing with the princess-lights after you de-board, but you have to change you mind set. The pleasure is yours.

[J.B. Clamence]

[delad]

haven't yet but you could be describing every Irish woman on the planet (except my mother), they are absolutely (oh...and my sister) the worst women in the world (of course my aunts as well), bar none (and i guess some of my exes were alright). So there, the harpies can all burn in hell....... AAAAAaaagh...

[periwinkle]