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patapata · Joined: 05 Jul 2010 Location: SK

I'm glad to know I'm not alone as an introvert here! I am actually ok when it comes to the kids (am even beginning to lose concern about the "attitudes" of the middle school aged ones), but with the other teachers, it's a different story. My fellow teachers are constantly summing up students' ability by how much they talk in class ("oh, she's really good, she says a lot." & "he's terrible, he never talks in class.") rather than looking at the whole student (do they write well? how do they perform on tests? etc). Since I doubt that introverts would make such comments about students who are literally in school/around their peers upwards of 12 hours per days, I'm guessing that the people making these comments are extroverts. At this stage in my life, I tend to keep my distance from anyone who needs constant conversation, stimulation and/or remarks on my being quiet. There have just been way too many cases where those relationships (friendships or otherwise) simply did not pan out due to a lack of understanding.

8 years down · Joined: 16 Dec 2009

Oreovictim · Joined: 23 Aug 2006

pangaea · Joined: 20 Dec 2007

*sniff* I miss talking to other introverts. Maybe I'll start a forum just for introverts. *sniff*

Yucca Girl · Joined: 03 Jul 2010

You could start an introverts in Korea support group, but that might require that introverts put together a plan for and participate in some sort of social interaction, which might prove challenging. However, if people did manage to get together at least there wouldn't be a any judgment if people were feeling a little shy at first! Laughing

DorkothyParker · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Location: Jeju

Oreovictim · Joined: 23 Aug 2006

Anyone ever play Morrowind? After Diablo 2 and before I got in to WoW. I played Morrowind. Summer of '05. Man, I loved that game at first. The graphics were pretty amazing. But I got sick of that game by the end of the summer.

- unpronounceable places
- the same enemies all the time (those pterodactyl things were annoying)
- too large of an area
- Once you get that hammer that you need to complete the first expansion, everything is just, well, too easy. And there's a point where gold is useless. You collect all this money and have nothing to spend it on.

I need a new fantasy game to play. So if I like Diablo 2, Morrowind, and WoW, then I'll probably like . . .

Help me, please.

Skipperoo · Joined: 05 Jul 2010

I loved Morrowind to bits, must've put dozens of dozens of hours into that game.

Oreovictim · Joined: 23 Aug 2006

Globutron · Joined: 13 Feb 2010 Location: England/Anyang

Skipperoo · Joined: 05 Jul 2010

Kaypea · Joined: 09 Oct 2008

pangaea · Joined: 20 Dec 2007

Is the proposed introvert meet-up on the 24th happening or did everyone give up on it? I am still interested if anyone else is.

tomato · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:03 pm Post subject:

My introversion causes me to feel compulsive about learning the Korean language.
I stay away as much as possible from Koreans who speak English.

That is for several reasons:
One is, I am afraid of becoming addicted to them.
I am afraid that if I make friends with English-speaking Koreans, I would spend time with them that would otherwise be spent practicing Korean.

Another reason is, I feel inferior to them if their English is better than my Korean.
I also feel resentful to them if their English is NOT better than my Korean but they think it is.

Still another reason, such language vampires don't seem to see me as I want to be seen.
Rather, they seem to see me as--well, an EXTRAVERT!

True to Globutron's advice, I join groups which I am interested in.
That includes music classes, Japanese classes, and sign language classes.

Rowdy kids don't bother me so much because kindergarten-elementary education is another of my compulsive interests.
I am more comfortable around kids than I am around adults who keep asking me if I like kimchi.

I like teaching when I can do the job my own creative way.
I am fortunate in that I finally landed a job where the director allows creativity.
(I value creative outlets more than anything else in the world.)
My last job was a public school job.
There, I had to share the classroom with a Korean teacher who reserved the right to bust in and hijack the class whenever she wanted to.

Like Pangaea, I spend time on the Internet. I like to fight with wegukin's who think I'm crazy for being so obsessive over speaking Korean.
I also like to fight with Creationists.
But the mod's on this forum have declared a ban on Creationist/Evolutionist battles, so we have to disguise them under other titles.

I feel like Pangaea about weekends.
I never could understand why people want to go out and paint the town red on weekends.
To me, that is too much like what I do during the work week.
Instead, I think, "Thank God it's Friday. Now I can (read a good book) (write a musical composition) (write a manuscript) (work on my Website) (study a topic which I am intterested in)."

Globutron, do you hate extraverts?
I hate extraverts who think extraverts are better than introverts and therefore try to convert me to extraversion.
How would they like it if I said that introverts were better than extraverts and tried to convert them to introversion?

Like Patapapata, I am glad to find that there are other people like me. Patapata, thank you for starting this thread.

Say, I just thought of something:
Have you noticed that this thread has very few if errors in spelling and punctuation, whereas such errors abound on most of the other threads? I wonder why!