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captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

Try to look at it from their point of view. At our haggie there are two Korean female teachers. One is 26 and she cracks me up. For example one day I asked her, 'do you like me?'. Because I'd been battling with dull axes with the other foreign teacher who speared me with, 'none of the Korean teachers here like you!' (like that's supposed to slay me). So I asked her, 'do you like me?'. And she looked at me funny like she was thinking what the heck is this guy thinking. Then smiled and said, deadpan, 'I don't like anybody here'. Which cracked me up and we both got a laugh. So she's cool. Another time I asked her if she liked the kids (certain kids, or 'who was her favourite kid?') and she said, 'I don't like any of them'. Same deadpan sense of humor. Flat out hilarious. She lives at home, in her parents house. Has her own room. Has a Tico car, used, family sold to her for 200,000 won. The other day I asked, 'how was your weekend?' and she said, 'not good'. I asked why. She said she went to a movie by herself. Like, didn't have a date. She's fantastically good looking though the same foreign teacher I'd been arguing with had said she 'has a face that would stop a truck'. Probably jealous.

The other Korean teacher just got married a few months ago. She is doing this job until she has kids, I guess. Before her there was a Korean teacher who already has two kids. She quit recently, after working here for four months. Both these female Korean teachers mind the managment more and don't have as much slack as the foreign teachers. They also look terminally bored during the office hours part of the job.

Once we went out to T.G.I Friday's and the funny one was, at that time, resentful of the Korean supervisor which may have led her to do what she did. That is stand up, and before stalking off leaving her steak dinner uneaten, snarl, 'this Western food isn't fit to eat'. The venue for the staff dinner was T.G.I. Friday's and Western style fare because the other foreigner had put in a request. And the boss complied.