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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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Laughing is all well and good, but I prefer natural highs. Yours...well, let's just say I won't take your word for it as to where they come from.  |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 5:05 am Post subject: |
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This reminds me of a story, that is also a good example of:
"Be careful what you wish for, it might come true."
One day, I said aloud, "I wish I could fee normal for just one minute."
Then, this guy comes up to me and says, "Hi. I am Bruce Normal, and you can feel me as long as you want."
 I just made that up. It is NOT true.
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This was supposed to be a gay joke for Corporal. |
Uh, okay. Thanks... Was I supposed to laugh? Be offended? not really sure what you're looking for there KFC. |
Laugh of course.
One of my missions in life is to bring as much joy and laughter I can to those around me. I, as I hope you can tell from my posts here, also try to share what I think is important information about various topics, but do it with humour.
Like when I teach. I am very serious about my students making as much progress as possible WHILE having a gay ol' time (  pardon the expression). But, when you are a dislexic English teaching monk chicken, well you just gotta have a sence of humor, for it to all come together just right and work. 
It's like my dear old great great great grandfather told me on his 112th birthday. "Life is to serious to be short. That is why I am six foot three."
Well, I am pretty tall too. Especially for a chicken.
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I laughed |
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Saxiif
Joined: 15 May 2003
Location: Seongnam
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| I live in real small town Korea and I've really gotten used to people staring at me to the point that I don't notice it any more. Its gotten to the extent that when I'm in Seoul and I'm treated more like something "normal" its feels strange. However, when I'm with my (Korean) gf the number of people that stare at us drives her nuts (I've heard posts about similar experiences here before). If we think its strange to be stared at and not feel normal, just image how bad it must to get looked at and feel not normal in your own country? |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:01 am Post subject: |
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The highest compliment I've gotten is from a child who visits my apartment and tries playing my musical instruments. She asked me what I did during the day. I told her that I go downtown and teach. She asked me, "������ ����Ĩ�ϱ�? ������ ����Ĩ�ϱ�?" ("What do you teach? Do you teach music?")
One reason I teach kids is that I can't stand the adults. It seems that some Korean adults can't even conceive of speaking to a foreigner in Korean. When I tell them how much I resent it, they say "I'm sorry" in English! |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:26 am Post subject: |
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| One reason I teach kids is that I can't stand the adults. It seems that some Korean adults can't even conceive of speaking to a foreigner in Korean. When I tell them how much I resent it, they say "I'm sorry" in English! |
Generally I've spent most of my time teaching ONLY adults. I just liked having adult conversations and such. (Not doing that now however - all ages 1-on-1).
But recently I did a summer camp teaching middle school kids. They were challenging, but I loved that they didn't presume anything whatsoever about me. They treated me as if I'd always lived in Korea and always would be. Case-closed. Refreshing change.
I'm glad I spent all the time I did teaching adults in the past. But from it, I'm so drained to have to have yet another 'Konglish' conversation with all the projected assumptions and whatever else. |
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philinkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 1:11 am Post subject: thats cool |
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| actually i think some of the feeling a bit different can be cool sometimes. particularly since being a foreign novelty can pay off with girls. i do hate it though when random people just start going on at you just because your foreign. I was near Jonggak and some guy started talking to me asking where i was from first of all. that was fine. the thing that annoyed me was that for a period of about 20 minutes he was just talking at me and yeah did make me feel like i must be a total alien with no feelings of a normal human because i was foreign. he hardly asked any questions but was just going on and on and on, england ahh david beckham, michael owen, england europe i like europe, i like germany, interesting, england london, london arsenal, london queen. it was so bloody annoying. he took no sort of hint that i was paying attention to him. so irritating. i kept trying to slow him down so atleast have a normal conversation but he just didnt stop. ARGHHH!! |
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