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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| litebear wrote: |
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| Dodge7 wrote: |
She knows my feelings all too well. I have told her that I will try not to talk bad about Korea and always comment on how things are better in America and how I wish I was home.
And like you, we would most likely take yearly trips to Korea since she is very close to her mom. No problem there.
Work is a problem though. I'm a licensed teacher back home and I just don't have the connections to get into a school district. I'll need to work on that. |
Indeed and if my advice is worth anything to ya...secure a job or interviews before you move over with your wife and child!
It will make the transition far easier.
Anyway, if you want to discuss the general difficulties or challenges of moving back home with a foreign spouse, feel free to pm me. It will be my pleasure to help if I can.
If not, all the best to you guys. |
Bloody hell, Dodge and Patrick passing olive branches like a couple of Greek farmers. Tear in my eye! |
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weebil
Joined: 24 May 2009
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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Where did you teach and live? I am moving over this summer, all I do is worry about the stupid drug test. I take prescription anti-depressant, and anxiety(Lorazepam). I am getting off the Lorazepam in June, but staying on the other. I have this nightmare about failing the damn drug test!
Stupid, yes, I know, but I can't help it! |
i lived in wonju one year and incheon my second year.
say no to drugs. |
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weebil
Joined: 24 May 2009
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Dodge7 wrote: |
the freedom of going into any store you want and asking for help without any hint of confusion HAS to be refreshing.
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i could do that in korea.
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| And the food alone in the US is worth going back. |
i like korean food and cook most of my meals myself anyway. i never had trouble finding stuff i wanted to eat.
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| You blend in without being stared at. That's a plus. |
i guess it didn't bother me much. |
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Gorf
Joined: 25 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 10:57 am Post subject: |
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Besides the aforementioned reasons (no staring, easier to live in a English-speaking country, many other things) there's on thing that really has been kind of the demon on my back since I've been here.
This is going to come off as incredibly America-centric, but there's this kind of weird mojo here where I feel like I'm living behind the times. I feel like in America, things that are fresh are fresh, and things that matter usually happen there before anywhere else. Not all the time, but a lot of the time.
I came over here to get away from the western world for a while and I've had my time to feel like a self-imposed pariah. I've got a great life, but career-ESLing isn't for me, and neither is living in Korea for the rest of my life. When the time comes, I'll gladly go back to the States.
Yeah, so the people I knew a year ago are doing the same things now for the most part. Then again, if the situation was reversed, and I lived in America for a year or two and came back home to Korea, I'd probably say the same things about the same people, working the same jobs, doing the same things. You'll find that anywhere you go. I guess if you think that a big barometer of your own happiness is whether or not other people have made big changes in their lives, well, that's pretty weird.
Living in Korea is fine, but it's the regressive attitudes about diversity, the internet idiocy (IE 6? Still? Really?) the general slobbyness of the foreigners I do get to meet, the backwards attitudes about sex and lifestyle, the brutal working conditions, the Confucian system, the overpriced housing and food... I'll happily give that up to live back in a nation full of fat people.
Sorry for the novel. tl;dr: Korea is Tatooine, America (or the West in general) is Coruscant |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 12:47 am Post subject: |
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well... i don't know. it's a bummer in most ways. i remember now that i hate having to drive everywhere. the cost of living here is so high. and everyone is so fat, it grosses me out. i have to go back to school now because i can't get a job with benefits and pay nearly as good as those i had in korea. and all my friends are still doing the same boring stuff they were doing when i left, which is kind of depressing.
but on the upside i have more free time since i'm working only part time, though that will go away of course when my classes start. and i've got my music career going again which i couldn't do in korea. but yeah, i don't really feel great about being back here, but i didn't want to do ESL my whole life. i really wish i could get a job i liked, but in korea [or overseas somewhere else]. |
Wow, this matches exactly the negative rhetoric about foreign teachers. I guess Koreans like to hire this type. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 3:36 am Post subject: |
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well... i don't know. it's a bummer in most ways. i remember now that i hate having to drive everywhere. the cost of living here is so high. and everyone is so fat, it grosses me out. i have to go back to school now because i can't get a job with benefits and pay nearly as good as those i had in korea. and all my friends are still doing the same boring stuff they were doing when i left, which is kind of depressing.
but on the upside i have more free time since i'm working only part time, though that will go away of course when my classes start. and i've got my music career going again which i couldn't do in korea. but yeah, i don't really feel great about being back here, but i didn't want to do ESL my whole life. i really wish i could get a job i liked, but in korea [or overseas somewhere else]. |
Wow, this matches exactly the negative rhetoric about foreign teachers. I guess Koreans like to hire this type. |
Like anything else, statements with some perspective seem to be a lot more credible...so lets leave it at: there are some bad foreign teachers, there are some good ones... |
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weebil
Joined: 24 May 2009
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Hokie21 wrote: |
| You can't get a job that makes roughly 25K a year? That's depressing. |
i know.
| sojusucks wrote: |
Wow, this matches exactly the negative rhetoric about foreign teachers. I guess Koreans like to hire this type. |
you must be new. negative rhetoric about teachers in korea usually centers around their penchant for drinking heavily, womanizing, and lacking substantial life goals. so i'm not sure what you're getting at here.
or are you just a fattie who didn't like my comment about your people? |
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