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camel96
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 Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Blue Flower wrote: |
| Gord wrote: |
| Paragraphs would be nice. |
Is that better?
How about you send me an annotated transcript with my punctuation and spelling mistakes circled? I am sure that would be very helpful. |
Or he could turn it into a song...that'd be pretty sweet. |
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duanemyhre
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 11:21 pm Post subject: Re: My First Rant: |
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| Blue Flower wrote: |
| Why is it that we are the last people to know about anything? |
This sounds a lot like teaching in Japan |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| camel96 wrote: |
| Or he could turn it into a song...that'd be pretty sweet. |
Spoken:
"Son, be a foreign teacher" is what dad said to me.
"It's a cushy life, and you'll get an apartment for free."
Singing:
So I talked to the recrutier to see if this was so.
She smiled at me, the nicest smile...
and said "kid, don't you know?"
<doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom>
A teacher's job is easy, a teacher's wage is high.
A foreign teacher's pension would make a civil servant cry.
There's never any danger and there's always lots of fun.
And as for job security, it's better than a nun's.
Spoken:
"Kid, I'd like you to meet somebody. His official title is wongjongnim, but I would like you to think of him as more of social coordinater."
Chorus:
If I ever get back home again,
if I ever get back home again,
if I ever get back home again,
that recruiter is going to die.
Spoken:
Because I'm here to tell you folks that the rosey picture she painted bore no resemblence to reality.
Singing:
Some say the North Koreans are evil, they say they are misunderstood.
"If you would just do things our way, it would serve the greater good".
They seek to build a worker's paradise, a more enlightended mode.
But if you get in their way, your brain just might explode.
The Japanese seem to think they just can not be outclassed.
They're so urbane, that less cultured folk seem barbaric by contrast.
Their access to your pornography includes both read and write.
They turn your movies into theirs and no one's left who's white.
spoken:
"Bill! Bill! What's wrong?!"
"I dunno Gord... they just seem like such nice women..."
Chorus:
If I ever get back home again,
If I ever get back home again,
If I ever get back home again,
that recruiter is going to die.
singing:
China needs new markets to expand, more than the others do.
For like their restuarants, there's never just one or two.
The multiply like rabbits, make unending labour crews.
And carry off your jobs like ants at picnics do.
The Cheobol are weak and sickly and their products are mostly fake.
The Japanese took their ideas, more items for to make.
But for such whining wheezers, they're an engineering bunch.
Give them a rock, and they'll invent the Internet before lunch.
Chorus:
If I ever get back home again,
If I ever get back home again,
If I ever get back home again,
that recruiter is going to die.
The monks think that they are Mother Nature's strong right arm.
And they are willing to beat those who'd do her harm.
Their shaved head units will pop up behind your lines,
So you'd better "give a hoot" 'cause you won't like like their littering fines.
The Ajashis are big, the Ajashis are tough, the Ajashis will cause you pains.
But when you've got sojo and can headbutt buildings, who needs brains?
They make the greatest farmers, but as alcoholics they suck, you see,
they drink too much and then they have to pee.
Add to that the gold diggers, who'd sell their Mothers' eyes
And you can see why I might not think this job is a prize
So if I manage to survive, I'm going back to the land of my birth
But I think I'll keep my komdo stick... just for sentimental worth.
Chorus
If I ever get back home again,
If I ever get back home again,
If I ever get back home again,
that recruiter is going to die.
Last edited by Gord on Sat Aug 23, 2003 3:00 am; edited 2 times in total |
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camel96
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Gord I'm picturing a Johnny Cash type number.
Would I be on track....?
Oh and one other thing....
I'm...um...not entirely sure that the song was based on Blue Flower's rant.
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The Great Wall of Whiner
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: Middle Land
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 1:02 am Post subject: |
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That was actually pretty slick.
You should do a tour with BoA.
(just don't touch her) |
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Sarah-in-Korea
Joined: 20 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Excellent! It's a song AND a rant, so probably could be classed as a rap.
I'm just gonna skirt back to the issue for a moment. What you need to do is either become a really hardened whiner and make it known that you are completely inflexible to any kind of change so that the management can't be bothered mucking you around because of the painful repercussions for them (this works really well for one of my co-workers, all the extra work gets dumped on me if I'm not careful!). OR you need to retrain management like I have. It's actually possible! My boss would drop little surprises on us teachers weekly (e.g. There are no classes to teach today as the kids are doing tests all day.) which makes it hard to plan properly. We ranted a little at first, then we decided to tell him very politely that we are not accustomed to being told at the last minute and that he should let us know in advance. It took a little while but now he does. Every week we ask him if there's anything we should know about, or he comes over to our desks and informs us free of will. He even APOLOGIZES (!!) if something happens that we didin't know about!!! Fortunately for us I think he's learned the value of happy and informed foreign teachers and the congeniality that springs forth.  |
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Blue Flower
Joined: 23 Feb 2003
Location: The realisation that I only have to endure two more weeks in this filthy, perverted, nasty place!
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 6:18 am Post subject: |
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Should I feel honoured Gord? Not quite sure....
I'm goin in on Monday and having a little spiel, I am very calm and mellow at the mo, so no banshee screaming will be happening on my part. I need to get my health insurance sorted, and make sure I am paying tax, get some days off for my brothers arrival, etc. So I guess it has come at a good time, so I can do it all at once. I think the other teachers are now scared of me, so I am sure this will never happen again. |
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