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| How have we changed? |
| 1 year and learning or leaving - ok, but still/ hate |
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17% |
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| 2nd year - know whats going on - more open, but! |
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11% |
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| 3rd year - settling, but still not sure if I am a lifer |
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20% |
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| 4th year - problems? Yeah I had them but! |
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14% |
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| 5th - 100th year - hmm not sure what to say. |
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35% |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River
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 Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:26 am Post subject: How have we changed? |
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I have changed a lot, I would be willing to make a wager that those who knew me for the first few years would not recognise me if they just heard the conversation today.
I have moved from an agressive to a relaxed position in the years I have been here. Reading other peoples writings on Daves, I thought about my changes and wondered who else has changed. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:43 am Post subject: |
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| I've changed very little in my time here. I see it as validation of the person I was four years ago. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:46 am Post subject: Re: How have we changed? |
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| Summer Wine wrote: |
I have changed a lot, I would be willing to make a wager that those who knew me for the first few years would not recognise me if they just heard the conversation today.
I have moved from an agressive to a relaxed position in the years I have been here. Reading other peoples writings on Daves, I thought about my changes and wondered who else has changed. |
People don't change. After all, you still think too much. |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| People don't change. After all, you still think too much. |
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:58 am Post subject: |
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| I chose the fourth year option even though it doesn't quite apply to me. Yes, I've been here a little over four years, but I haven't really had any problems. |
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as-ian
Joined: 04 Sep 2007
Location: Busan, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:09 am Post subject: |
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| Ginormousaurus wrote: |
| I chose the fourth year option even though it doesn't quite apply to me. Yes, I've been here a little over four years, but I haven't really had any problems. |
Ditto. ^_~ |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| I've changed very little in my time here. I see it as validation of the person I was four years ago. |
Or a sign of retarded growth. It's unnatural not to change as life goes on, regardless of your environ. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| I've changed very little in my time here. I see it as validation of the person I was four years ago. |
Or a sign of retarded growth. It's unnatural not to change as life goes on, regardless of your environ. |
Why change perfection? |
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englishiscrazy
Joined: 17 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: i've changed a lot. |
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i've changed a lot.
positives:
i've adopted some korean traits that i think are good, like family values and staying busy.
living here has given me a better understanding of who i am in this world and the country i came from.
also i'm now addicted to spicy food 
negatives:
have become more impatient with people that aren't curteous or polite. i have become more synical of koreans' generosity(bribes)
have become more concious of hygene and just won't eat in certain places
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| 88% of the people who voted in this poll have been here longer than a year, but the median amount time the average English teacher makes it in Korea is less than a year... interesting. |
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Natalia
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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I'm from an expat family, so being in Korea didn't really change me - I was prepared for the cultural differences and annoyances (and after India, Korea seemed pretty perfect sometimes...)
I think most people who go to Korea to teach have no plans to stay long term. It's an experience, but not a life change.
I never intended to stay in Korea - there are too many places to visit to get stuck there. I have used my experience teaching in Korea to find ESL work more suitable to my interests in other countries. |
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Letiz7
Joined: 29 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Came here early May. Hate it. Leaving on Monday. Byeeeeee. |
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Bondrock
Joined: 08 Oct 2006
Location: ^_^
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| I've changed very little in my time here. I see it as validation of the person I was four years ago. |
Or a sign of retarded growth. It's unnatural not to change as life goes on, regardless of your environ. |
Retarded growth???? what a laugh.
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I'm gonna stick my neck out here and say that like Racetraitor, I have not changed much in my 7+ years in Korea.
Actually, I found that my time in Korea has validated much of who I am and what I espouse.
Subtle change always happens, but once you been through a few big moments and passed the age of idiocy your character becomes pretty entrenched.
I have long passed the age of idiocy: Unlike some who insist on adolescent hate diatribes in their signature-lines. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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Retarded growth???? what a laugh.
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Yeah...English....look into it. |
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colonel sanders
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
Location: the middle of the middle of nowhere
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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2nd year.
The biggest change for me was being able to redifine myself when I first moved here. I gave up a ton of bad habits for a more healthy lifestyle. If I could only stop binge drinking.........that will never happen in korea.
My disdain for american culture has grown enormously too. I'm not a lifer in korea, but doubt I'll move back to america for any long period of time. |
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