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[Apple Scruff]

THEN TAKE OFF YOUR F#@$ING WINTER COAT, PECKERWOOD!!

[jacl]

No kidding. What gets me is that most of these coats make too much noise and it drives me crazy.

I could go on.

[chiaa]

We just started hiring employees so I made a little handbook. One of the things in there about the dress code was that they were not allowed to wear a winter coat in the store. If they were cold, bring a sweater.

[jinks]

Yeah, I hear you!
At my hogwan I made the students take off their hats coats and gloves at the start of class. When they howled about being cold I got everyone to stand up and we all would do stretches and jumps and shake our fingers, hands, arms and legs. The students hated it and complained to the director who told me to stop making the children take off their coats in the classroom. I stood my ground and argued my case, but it was not a battle I was ever going to win. Now, if a kid dares to whinge about being hot, I just tell him or her to suck it up.

[jacl]

This is off-topic, but a couple of younger boys were already in my classroom when I walked in today and they're chompin' on donkas on a stick with the sauce on it. I was completely put off by this. Like I'm going to have them smack away on these while I start my class, stinking it up. One kid was almost finished. I told them to finish up, went and got a coffee, went back and this kid still had most of his left. Made him stand outside and eat it. Sure, I have pizza days and let kids eat candy and give 'em candy, etc., but I can't stand that kind of crap.

Anyway, the certainly got the message. I didn't dwell on it, but it's just lack of respect comin' in smackin' on crap and leaving the sticks to smell up in the garbage can.

Same goes with these coats in the classroom. I don't mind it if they're not making any noise, but this moving around with the friction sound drives me insane. What else drives me insane are the shuffling of pages and any talking whatsoever (and it's always in Korean) to other students while teaching or conversation lessons are going on between me or between other students. NOT ACCEPTABLE!

I am the Nazi teacher who gives out candy and pizza. Learn this now! Ha, ha, ha, ha (evil laugh).

[weatherman]

You should be thought lucky, for mostly the locals never complain about the heat indoors in winter. They seem to really enjoy it, too much so... as in these examples:

On an express bus, I have a few times taken off my shirt and sat their in my T-shirt because the bus was so hot, while most of the other passengers were still in their winter coats. It crossed my mind to take off my pants too, and sit there in my drawers, but I thought that was going too far.

[Grotto]

I had the same problem....kids in winter coats in class going i'm hot and opening the window to cool down

I asked them "why are you opening the window?"

"I'm hot teacher!"

"Then take off your DAMN COAT!!!!!! "

"Mother says I will get sick if I take off my coat!"

"OH" that explains everything.

[matthews_world]

[pet lover]

My kids have learned....when they walk in the classroom, they take off their coats and heap them in a pile against one of the walls. And, yes, when they line up to go home, I do have to TELL them to close their coats as it is cold outside (especially when there is snow everywhere and it never got above freezing that day). There is always someone who has to reminded to TAKE his coat with him.

I make an exception for the last two classes of the day as it is chilly at that point, but if they are wearing those huge puffy noisy coats, I remind them that it is NOT snowing inside and I make them take them off and then go wash the sweat off their faces and necks.

On the other end of teh spectrum, the Korean teachers are always wearing very light clothing and constantly complaining about the cold. The teacher who ALWAYS wears a skirt is especially hilarious...she's ALWAYS freezing, but thinks I'm nuts for wearing pants and polar fleece long underwear.

[chiaa]

[laogaiguk]

[laogaiguk]

Funny, I had a 18 year old female student come up to me in Japan and say this, but she meant extremely sexy/pretty. That is what I had thought this was going to be (And yes, the girl had an ego indirectly proportional to her chest size, though she was cute).

(by the way, in my opinion, to be hot, you have to have the full package (including a sexy personality). Pretty and cute can be lacking in some areas though)

[mindmetoo]

[ilovebdt]

[thekingofdisco]