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Countrygirl · Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Location: in the classroom

I�m aware that everyone in my community watches me, but this weirded me out.

A mother from my school who wants to practice her English on me came into my office for a chat. Within a 10 minute conversation she tells me that she knows how long my family plans to stay in Korea, my husband's job status, and that my family always goes to bed early Shocked

. The thing is, she never found out any of these things from my husband or me. She seemed a bit put out that some of her info was not as up-to-date as she thought it was. I�m wondering if I am taking it the wrong way and that she is just trying hard to make conversation in bad English. But I think it is just creepy that she knows so much about my family.

I think the next time I drink soju I�ll have to do it in the dead of night with the blinds drawn, the soju bottle concealed by a brown paper bag, sitting on the floor of the bathroom with the one bare bulb shining from above.

xingyiman · Joined: 12 Jan 2006

crusher_of_heads · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject:

I want someone to tell me they know I make breakfast on the weekends, wash dishes, make the bed, dust and hang clothes on Saturdays buff naked-I have been waiting for awhile now!

poet13 · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:09 pm Post subject:

Last Saturday I had ice cream with two first year high school girls who had been in my middle school camp last summer.
Anyways, we were sitting in the window of Baskin Robbins and everybody stopped to have a stare. By the time I got home an hour or so later, I had an email from my co-teacher saying please dont' have relationship with high school girls. Rolling Eyes

it's full of stars · Joined: 26 Dec 2007

Don't you know you can't have a platonic friendship with the opposite sex? It must be something more...

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

nomad-ish · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:43 pm Post subject:

don't worry about it, this is normal (for korea anyway).

all the teachers (english or not) tend to know things about me that i've never told them... somethings that are false too. i've even had people looking come to my door looking to convert me or for a foreign "friend". i have no idea how they found out i live at that exact number since at that time i had never seen any of my neighbours so they couldn't have mentioned it to anyone

poet13 · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:32 am Post subject:

"Don't you know you can't have a platonic friendship with the opposite sex? It must be something more..."

Damn! Busted! There is something more.... they are also language leeches.

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

If you are noisy at night, everyone knows about it.

Rest assured.

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

nicholas_chiasson · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Location: Samcheok

I'm so popular in my tiny town I thought English teacher in Korean was "you-ship-sae-kki." Now I know what they are thinking of me, cheeky bastards.

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

yingwenlaoshi · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!

"It's so great! It's so great!"

Michelle · Joined: 18 May 2003

That reminds me of my old haggie days...

I accidentally left my fluro bedroom light on while sleeping, much to my disgust in the morning.

When I went to the hagwon, my boss said my light was on at 2 in the morning and what was I doing?

Shocked

She had been visiting someone next door, like this made it her business.

Should I be able to look back and Laughing