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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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 Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject: My student and his umbrella |
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Keep this short,
It's raining and I had to walk across the field. Little grade 1 (2nd smallest kid in the school) hauls as$ (are those the correct words for that expression?) and opens his umbrella to keep me dry (he does have a strangely large umbrella). He won't let me hold it either so there was a bit of scrunching. I wish I had a pic, he is the most adorable thing ever. I love my students. Sometimes they behave bad, but they are always good. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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A couple of years ago I got off the bus into a rain storm. A couple of middle school kids held their umbrellas over my head and walked me home. Total strangers. Pretty nice thing for someone to do. Another time, an old dude gave me his baseball cap off his head so I wouldn't get wet.
Frankly, I'm not so averse to getting wet as the locals are, but I'm not one to turn down a gesture of friendliness.  |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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I was walking down the street one day when it was raining lightly and I didn't have an umbrella. Someone came running up from behind and it was one of my students with her little girlie umbrella that was hardly big enough for one person, much less two. So my half my head and one shoulder got slightly less wet.
Do things like that happen to teachers in the west? Language barriers aside I think we really have it better off here. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I have had high school girls who sit next to me (the row beside mine) give me candy all the time on the bus from Seoul to my little town. And I mean all the time. I don't know them, and they don't speak to me (if they can even speak English), they just always give me some of their food (candy or chips, popcorn once). |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I have had high school girls who sit next to me (the row beside mine) give me candy all the time on the bus from Seoul to my little town. And I mean all the time. I don't know them, and they don't speak to me (if they can even speak English), they just always give me some of their food (candy or chips, popcorn once). |
It was probably what their FT gave them to bribe them to shut up and / or stay awake during English class. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I have had high school girls who sit next to me (the row beside mine) give me candy all the time on the bus from Seoul to my little town. And I mean all the time. I don't know them, and they don't speak to me (if they can even speak English), they just always give me some of their food (candy or chips, popcorn once). |
It was probably what their FT gave them to bribe them to shut up and / or stay awake during English class. |
No, these are trips on Satuday or Sunday (day trips as I live in a small town). They are not ever coming back from school. I can still tell they are students though. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I have had high school girls who sit next to me (the row beside mine) give me candy all the time on the bus from Seoul to my little town. And I mean all the time. I don't know them, and they don't speak to me (if they can even speak English), they just always give me some of their food (candy or chips, popcorn once). |
It was probably what their FT gave them to bribe them to shut up and / or stay awake during English class. |
No, these are trips on Satuday or Sunday (day trips as I live in a small town). They are not ever coming back from school. I can still tell they are students though. |
Actually they're probably going to Saturday and Sunday hogwan programmes in the big city where they get to spend 4+ hours studying mathematics or English grammar. It's amazing how the kids can be so nice after all the shit they have to put up with. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I have had high school girls who sit next to me (the row beside mine) give me candy all the time on the bus from Seoul to my little town. And I mean all the time. I don't know them, and they don't speak to me (if they can even speak English), they just always give me some of their food (candy or chips, popcorn once). |
It was probably what their FT gave them to bribe them to shut up and / or stay awake during English class. |
No, these are trips on Satuday or Sunday (day trips as I live in a small town). They are not ever coming back from school. I can still tell they are students though. |
Actually they're probably going to Saturday and Sunday hogwan programmes in the big city where they get to spend 4+ hours studying mathematics or English grammar. It's amazing how the kids can be so nice after all the *beep* they have to put up with. |
hadn't thought of that. Boy am I glad I was a kid in Canada. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I have had high school girls who sit next to me (the row beside mine) give me candy all the time on the bus from Seoul to my little town. And I mean all the time. I don't know them, and they don't speak to me (if they can even speak English), they just always give me some of their food (candy or chips, popcorn once). |
It was probably what their FT gave them to bribe them to shut up and / or stay awake during English class. |
No, these are trips on Satuday or Sunday (day trips as I live in a small town). They are not ever coming back from school. I can still tell they are students though. |
Actually they're probably going to Saturday and Sunday hogwan programmes in the big city where they get to spend 4+ hours studying mathematics or English grammar. It's amazing how the kids can be so nice after all the *beep* they have to put up with. |
hadn't thought of that. Boy am I glad I was a kid in Canada. |
Yeah, a lot of my kids get to spend Saturday and / or Sunday doing that. I can't believe that they put up with it. When I was 16-18 if my parents had tried to enrole me in an extra-curricular academy I just would have said 'no', end of story. Then again I was bigger than my parents and they weren't allowed to beat me with stick. |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Same thing happened to me yesteday, students backtracked a block to give me an umbrella. I said, no thanks, it's just drizzling. She was shocked and said, "Teacher! Rain dirty! Ewww!"
So I took her pink polka-dotted umbrella and felt like a genuine goht-mi-nam. |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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In regards to the rain here, I used to be relaxed about walking or making a quick dash in the rain if it wasn't too heavy and I didn't have an umbrella.
I then taught an elementary class (older) from a newspaper that talked about the acid rain and its effects in Korea and discussed the ph level etc.
I am now very aware of the rain and am trying to avoid being caught out in it without an umbrella or being in it as little as necessary.
Its actually quite disturbing the level of acidity in the rain and I will be curious to what the long term impact will be on the soil in region. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Summer Wine wrote: |
In regards to the rain here, I used to be relaxed about walking or making a quick dash in the rain if it wasn't too heavy and I didn't have an umbrella.
I then taught an elementary class (older) from a newspaper that talked about the acid rain and its effects in Korea and discussed the ph level etc.
I am now very aware of the rain and am trying to avoid being caught out in it without an umbrella or being in it as little as necessary.
Its actually quite disturbing the level of acidity in the rain and I will be curious to what the long term impact will be on the soil in region. |
Ditto.
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Rapid Urbanization Alters Local Climate
By Lee Hyo-sik
Staff Reporter
Rapid urbanization and other human activities have altered the climate on the Korean Peninsular and degraded the ecosystem, according to a government study.
Worsening environmental pollution and increasing urbanization in Korea have recently raised public concern about a potential environment disaster in the near future should the country continues its reckless industrial development and ecologicial destruction.
Green house gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, have made Korea�s atmosphere warmer over the years.
Also, acid rain, caused by sulfur dioxide and other industrial gases from fossil fuel burning and automobiles, has made soil unfit for plants, trees and other living organisms.
The Ministry of the Environemnt unveiled these and other interim results from its ``National Long-Term Ecological Study,�� which began in 2004. The ministry plans to study the effects of human activity on the country�s environment until 2013.
The study from December 2004 to July 2005 found that spring arrives earlier in Seoul than Chungchong Province.
Azaleas blossomed on April 7 at Mt. Namsan in Seoul last year, while the flower came into bloom on April 20 in Chechon, North Chungchong Province.
Petals began to fall off them on April 12 in Seoul _ in Chechon they fell 17 days later than in Seoul.
In the spring, flowers normally blossom and fall earlier in the south and later in the north.
But the study found that a phenomenon called ``heat island effects�� combined with air pollution, reversed the natural trend.
Heat islands form as cities replace natural land cover with pavement, buildings and other man-made infrastructure, increasing urban temperatures.
The phenomenon is known to negatively impact public health and the environment, and increase the amount of energy that city dwellers use for cooling in the summer.
The study also found acid rain and worsening air pollution in Seoul damaged trees on Mt. Namsan.
The pH of water contained in soil was gauged at 4.18 last year, becoming more acidic over the years, due to acid rain. In 1996, the water recorded a pH of 4.46.
A pH (the negative logarithm of the effective hydrogen-ion concentration) measures the acidity of a liquid _ in this case precipitation. A pH of less than seven indicates increasing acidity, while a pH level over seven indicates increasing alkalinity.
An increasing amount of air pollutants released from automobiles and factories in Seoul were also found to have damaged trees on Mt. Namsan and disturbed its ecosystem.
``The study found worsening air pollution has raised the temperatures and accelerated environmental degradation, particularly in urban areas,�� a ministry official said.
He also said the government should pay more attention to controlling air pollutants, including sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide emitted from automobiles and industrial facilities, in order to prevent global warming and ecological destruction. |
http://search.hankooki.com/times/times_view.php?term=namsan++&path=hankooki3/times/lpage/nation/200606/kt2006062217595510510.htm&media=kt |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Today after exams were finished the whole school went for a hike. A couple of girls wanted to trade my big, sturdy umbrella for their smaller one. Now I can't find them and am stuck with an umbrella with a nice, white, frilly trim. Oh well, this is Korea where that and a handbag looks attractive on a guy. |
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