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Snowmeow
Joined: 03 Oct 2005
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 Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:27 am Post subject: sad sad note |
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I return to Canada tomorrow and one of the students gave me a note in class.
When I read it while packing it nearly made me want to turn around and come right back to the same school. It was so sweet, in fact all the kids that know I am going were super nice to me today.
The letter reads, in part:
Why your going home?
You don't like Korea?
Don't go home. Please!
GOOD BYE!!! TEARS
then a picture of a crying girl.
Who else has gotten a letter like this or something similar, and wished they could go right back to Korea? Stories? I bet it happens frequently. There are just a few kids at the school that are absolute gems, I mean 5 year olds with 80 minute attention spans, that is stupendous. It'd be a lot better for my career to be teaching high school math but...  sad. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| It's just something that their parents help them do to make them look like they're concerned. You know? Friendly gesture. It's nothing you should take seriously. |
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sillywilly
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Canada.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| its sweet. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:24 am Post subject: |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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I always have a hard time leaving something and moving on. But, when I left my hagwon and my favorite kindy class (my "babies") gave me little laminated hearts with their pictures on them and "don't forget me!" written on them, I completely broke down.
If the hagwon owner hadn't been around that day, I might have repented of my decision to leave.  |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| jacl wrote: |
| It's just something that their parents help them do to make them look like they're concerned. You know? Friendly gesture. It's nothing you should take seriously. |
I don't think their parents made them do it. Especially really young kids. I think she was genuinely liked, and will genuinely be missed.
Good luck back home! |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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Obviously you made a good impression on her!
I still have all the notes from the kids on my last day of teaching going-away party. A lot of them recognized and thanked me for making a big effort with each of them to drill proper English into their heads.
I was relentless, even when they were speaking to me casually in the teacher's lounge. Painstaking at times --it was a lot of kids and there wasn't always enough time, but they were great. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| periwinkle wrote: |
| jacl wrote: |
| It's just something that their parents help them do to make them look like they're concerned. You know? Friendly gesture. It's nothing you should take seriously. |
I don't think their parents made them do it. Especially really young kids. I think she was genuinely liked, and will genuinely be missed.
Good luck back home! |
Maybe, but a ex co-teacher got one last year that was obviously not written by the student.
I find the OP's letter rather funny:
"You don't like Korea? You can use chopstics?" |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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The three girls in this class took me aside afterwards and gave me a gift with a note with instructions not to show it to the other teachers. It said 'you know this? We like you. You are very kind. Other teacher is not kind'. That really made my departure all the more worthwhile. Saying 'don't every forget us' to a departing teacher 20 times actually works, too. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:23 am Post subject: |
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| It is very sad. But then a week later it's like "who was that guy again?" |
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the eye
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| It is very sad. But then a week later it's like "who was that guy again?" |
so true. |
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gypsyfish
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:48 am Post subject: |
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| jacl wrote: |
| It's just something that their parents help them do to make them look like they're concerned. You know? Friendly gesture. It's nothing you should take seriously. |
Never got one, huh?
I'll bet the grapes are sour, too. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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| gypsyfish wrote: |
| jacl wrote: |
| It's just something that their parents help them do to make them look like they're concerned. You know? Friendly gesture. It's nothing you should take seriously. |
Never got one, huh?
I'll bet the grapes are sour, too. |
I haven't left.
I really do hope I get one when I do leave. It'll make so warm and fuzzy inside.  |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| the eye wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| It is very sad. But then a week later it's like "who was that guy again?" |
so true. |
Not necessarily. I went back to visit 6 or 7 months after I left my hagwon & kids all remembered me immediately. |
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Axl Rose
Joined: 16 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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| jacl wrote: |
| gypsyfish wrote: |
| jacl wrote: |
| It's just something that their parents help them do to make them look like they're concerned. You know? Friendly gesture. It's nothing you should take seriously. |
Never got one, huh?
I'll bet the grapes are sour, too. |
I haven't left.
I really do hope I get one when I do leave. It'll make so warm and fuzzy inside. |
what kind of miserable, negative douchbag are you?
this is a nice thread about someone making a big impression on the students. and here you are being a miserable, whiny bstd! what's the matter - students hate you, drinking too much, still no girlfriend?
mindmetoo and the eye - i keep in contact with many former students so your "It is very sad. But then a week later it's like "who was that guy again?" isn't true either. |
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