Korean Job Discussion Forums

[mindmetoo]

Hit a dollar store and load up on pencils and other cheap crap with your country's flag or city or something. Pack some "exotic" foods like honey, american chocolate bars, soaps, etc. Remember on major holidays Koreans give each other gift boxes of spam and canned tuna. Tinned, practical foods with an exotic twist would be nice.

[Don Gately]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[Grotto]

If you go to your member of parliment and your MLA you can get a bucketload of 'FREE' Canada flag pins, flags, stickers and whatever else they have to give away. Each year I visited both my MP and MLA and got hundreds of free pins and flags to give away...why pay for it when the taxpayers do it for you

[Qinella]

At the advice of Swiss James and Tzechuk, I ended up bringing a bottle of Crown Royal for my director. He drinks, but he never once touched it and barely even thanked me for it.

For my two co-teachers, both female, I just picked up a fancy satchel of chocolate and a nice scented candle from the airport. I'm pretty sure they liked those.

This time when I go back, I'm not quite sure what I'm going to bring. I have the benefit of having spent several hours with my future director already, so I know his personality. He lived in the US for four years, though, so probably got his fill of "exotic" things when he was here. It's tough to say.

For a random boss, perhaps a nice photo book of your local city or state, which you can find at a big bookstore like Barnes & Noble. Almost everyone likes looking at pictures.

For your students, pick up a couple of cheap word search books. My students were absolutely crazy about word searches.

Q.

[Grotto]

For free wordsearch puzzles visit

thepotters.com

look under Johns wordsearch puzzles....hundreds of puzzles of various difficulties on hundreds of different topics.

[tzechuk]

[tony602]

Are you filling up your luggage with all these suggestions???? I wouldnt....if you didnt notice.....and I didnt read all the posts on this thread....but if nobody mentioned it to you......you can find all that crap and then some here and not have to worry about cramming your already limited luggage space for the next year or so of your life.....plenty of crap here....learn what your students might like, what other teachers might have, and go learn your neighborhood markets......jeeeeesh folks, whiskey, pins and stuff.......your intl weight limit is like 44 lbs per checked piece.....unless you want to pay.....leave the crap at home and bring deodorant and toothpaste for yourself!!! Some of us have been here too long already, leave it home, visit an EMart or Home Plus, Costco, whatever....youd be surprised!

[Porter_Goss]