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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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Given the intricate detail provided, Pyongshin seems to be thinking of someone in particular who he knew fairly well, or a composite of probably no more than two people he knew fairly well. Oddly enough, I do believe that I have actually met that person (or one of those two people) he's describing here. And no, eamo, unless they lied about their nationality to me, they were not American. I need see no further evidence that the person, or one of the persons PS is describing is the very person I met. What little I know meshes too perfectly. I would like to add, too, that the person I met was affable, outgoing and very friendly to me, though I was a complete stranger in that setting.
But once again, we have a description of an ex-pat type, not an ESL Teacher type. How did they work out as teachers, how were they to get along with as teachers, etc.? |
Pastiche of.....several people. Nothing against them. If they wanna go off the rails on that crazy train, so be it. Few, but not all, of these girls last long in Korea so I have little knowledge of them as colleauges. They sorta let life take over anyway and just see teaching as a series of hoops to be jumped through before they go back home to work at the Yarn Barn again. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:14 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
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I think I'm the DYK Teacher (I have invented this category for myself. Feel free to join.)
DYK stands for "Did You Know?"
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Can you please write this phonetically? Please. |
Argh. Dee-Why-Kay.
You're welcome. |
But if you were pronouncing it as an acronym--like ASAP or FIFA--how would it sound then? |
Well I'm pretty sure it would sound rude.
Wait, were you one of those kids that asked their friends to say "O," "I" and then spell the word "CUP"? Can't remember the witty rejoinder that followed, but that was comedy GOLD. |
Hehe. You must have said both of them in your head. Hehe.
Pure GOLD.  |
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vox
Joined: 13 Feb 2005
Location: Jeollabukdo
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:57 am Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
| Canadian girls that only date GIs teacher: Is invariably from a town with big rigs and mullets, likes Garth Brooks and James Taylor, has completely given up on dating ESL teachers and can always get you 20 pound turkeys off base at Christmas. Her kitchen is full of 40 oz. bottles of Smirnoff, Cuervo tequila and cheese and butter in English only packaging and she is obsessed with getting signed on post. Is convinced that one of the 18 year old soldiers from Tennessee is going to marry her, if only he didnt have two kids and a 300 pound wife already. Is usually carrying some cubic zirconia rock around with her from some helicopter mechanic. May have his name tattoed on her butt. Invariably disappears on Friday afternoons then is spotted on the dancefloor at the loft around 4 am on Saturday. Is so tired on Monday mornings that she passes out during her kindergarten class. Actually likes kids but thinks that its sad that they dont appreciate what these brave Americans have done for them. Cannot name the President of Korea, possibly not even the President of the US. Can say babo, saun sang nim and well thats it. Invariably calls home on Sundays for two or three hours, has a stack of phone cards three feet high. Is obsessed with her weight, but well when you compare her to the GI Janes in their size 44 Wrangler jeans she aint that bad. |
Worked with her. Exactly this woman. Only she was American. |
I worked with this woman too (she's Canadian), back in a language school in Toronto. As the winter enrollments trickled off, and I considered returning, she told me, "say hi to the gang at Gecko's for me!!"
I never did. What a crappy messenger I am.  Would somebody please pass on the message? |
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Novernae
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| The churchie What about the teacher from a fundamentalist background? I worked with several teachers who spent all their free time at church; all their friends were from church; they wouldn't go out with the rest of the teachers because booze was usually involved. Heh- my best friend here is kind of in this category. She won't date anyone here, and only goes on dates abroad with people she's met though a religious site. |
This one's not getting enough coverage... Though I'd change it to the hypocritical churchie That's what my last coworkers were. Church was mentioned in every conversation. They tried to be nice to us after they found out we were 'living in sin.' They would have Bible Study on Friday nights, and then go out and get drunk... |
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vox
Joined: 13 Feb 2005
Location: Jeollabukdo
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| The churchie What about the teacher from a fundamentalist background? I worked with several teachers who spent all their free time at church; all their friends were from church; they wouldn't go out with the rest of the teachers because booze was usually involved. Heh- my best friend here is kind of in this category. She won't date anyone here, and only goes on dates abroad with people she's met though a religious site. |
This one's not getting enough coverage... Though I'd change it to the hypocritical churchie That's what my last coworkers were. Church was mentioned in every conversation. They tried to be nice to us after they found out we were 'living in sin.' They would have Bible Study on Friday nights, and then go out and get drunk... |
What's wrong with getting drunk? Jesus and the apostles had wine, and plenty of it. Is there more to this story or do good Christians not get sloshed? C'mon, this can't be the basis of the hypocrisy, whaddayagot!? Some unmentionable escapades brought on by the drink (I hope)? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:11 am Post subject: |
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How about the Mad, Insatiable, Unreasoning Collector of ESL Teaching Materials?
I assume that's a "type" of ESL teacher that actually exists, though the only evidence I have of its existence are a few posts I've read on Dave's and a former flatmate in Korea. What defines them.... Well, I've pretty much covered that in the name of the species. They collect -- rather than buy & use -- teaching books, story books, this books, that books... They create librariies comprised solely of ESL titles, and far too many for any one person to use in a single lifetime. I don't know, but I wonder if they feel a teacher is only as effective as his/her reading material, and anything else that goes on in the classroom is supplementary and less important. Or if they doubt their ability as a teacher, and all these books are just so many crutches, security blankets, and I wonder if they...
I'd better shut up right here before I say more incorrect things. |
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Novernae
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| vox wrote: |
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| periwinkle wrote: |
| The churchie What about the teacher from a fundamentalist background? I worked with several teachers who spent all their free time at church; all their friends were from church; they wouldn't go out with the rest of the teachers because booze was usually involved. Heh- my best friend here is kind of in this category. She won't date anyone here, and only goes on dates abroad with people she's met though a religious site. |
This one's not getting enough coverage... Though I'd change it to the hypocritical churchie That's what my last coworkers were. Church was mentioned in every conversation. They tried to be nice to us after they found out we were 'living in sin.' They would have Bible Study on Friday nights, and then go out and get drunk... |
What's wrong with getting drunk? Jesus and the apostles had wine, and plenty of it. Is there more to this story or do good Christians not get sloshed? C'mon, this can't be the basis of the hypocrisy, whaddayagot!? Some unmentionable escapades brought on by the drink (I hope)? |
You're right, the getting drunk part wasn't the base of my hypocrite label, only part of it because they claimed to follow a certain denomination to a T but were very pick and choosie about what parts of it they would follow. The worst is assuming that anyone who is not a Christian is a terrible person not to be trusted, when they were some of the worst of humanity I'd ever met. They were backstabbers with absolutely no work ethic (so much for the famous protestant work ethic). They would constantly judge people for doing things they themselves did on a regular basis, but it was all OK because they were Christian...  As for unmentionable escapades, I only intuited a few from the first few weeks of contact because once they found out we weren't Christian, things got a little 'tense' in the relationship and we were not up to their level of saint-hood to be trusted confidants. |
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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How about the Mad, Insatiable, Unreasoning Collector of ESL Teaching Materials?
I assume that's a "type" of ESL teacher that actually exists, though the only evidence I have of its existence are a few posts I've read on Dave's and a former flatmate in Korea. What defines them.... Well, I've pretty much covered that in the name of the species. They collect -- rather than buy & use -- teaching books, story books, this books, that books... They create librariies comprised solely of ESL titles, and far too many for any one person to use in a single lifetime. I don't know, but I wonder if they feel a teacher is only as effective as his/her reading material, and anything else that goes on in the classroom is supplementary and less important. Or if they doubt their ability as a teacher, and all these books are just so many crutches, security blankets, and I wonder if they...
I'd better shut up right here before I say more incorrect things. |
Ahhh, the ESL Packrat |
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