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Creeface
Joined: 08 Jun 2008
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 Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject: honeymoon phase over... |
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| anger and depression setting in... help me. |
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afsjesse
Joined: 23 Sep 2007
Location: Kickin' it in 'Kato town.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Just add a little more sparkle, it'll pay off in the end. |
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CheeseSandwich
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Drink heavily |
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livinginkunsan
Joined: 02 Dec 2006
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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| It's hard to help when we don't know the source of your anger and depression. |
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Faunaki
Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| You just got here so suck it up, really. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| reggae. lots of reggae. |
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Zutronius
Joined: 16 Apr 2007
Location: Suncheon
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I went through that a little while ago and the best advice I can give is to not sit in your apartment. Get out and go for hikes. hiking the mountains made me feel better. I'm not sure where you live, but get out some more and walk off the anger.  |
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EricaSmile84
Joined: 23 Jan 2008
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| Make one of those count-down things on facebook. You should just enjoy the rest of your year so you can look back and remember good things and not what a smelly, dirty, rude place you may think Korea is. |
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EzeWong
Joined: 26 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul
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I started dipping into the depression pot too...
I think its because I'm really lonely, normally I'd have friends and roomates around me 24/7. With no one to talk to, I started talking to myself O__O
But I picked myself back up when I started interacting with some of my students. Really gives me a pick me up |
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ciccone_youth
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan
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yes. get out of your apartment, explore new neighborhoods, find new activities, join a gym, go for a hike, meet some new people.
if you're homesick try to cook a homemade meal, get some foods at costco, buy some English books and magazines, watch movies you like, etc.
keeping busy makes time fly by and you will make great memories of korea. |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
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| definitely get out and do things. try to plan a regular event every week with your friends, like movie night, bowling, or just a long dinner. i'd plan for something in the middle of the week, like wednesday, it'll break up the monotony of the school week and give you something to look forward to on monday mornings (when normally you're just thinking about how long it is until friday!) |
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livinginkunsan
Joined: 02 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Faunaki wrote: |
| You just got here so suck it up, really. |
Funny that you are so critical of others, but so lovely in the breast feeding thread.  |
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Faunaki
Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| livinginkunsan wrote: |
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| You just got here so suck it up, really. |
Funny that you are so critical of others, but so lovely in the breast feeding thread. |
I'm usually not critical of others but CF JUST got here and is complaining already about the honeymoon phase. Hello, you gotta be here for a while for that to end, it doesn't end after a week.
And mind your own business. Are you CF's mother? Do you want to breast feed him? If the answer is no, then you know where you can go.... |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:31 pm Post subject: Re: honeymoon phase over... |
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| Creeface wrote: |
| anger and depression setting in... help me. |
Well, think of it like a marriage where you expect that Korea will somehow complete you. She is not quite what you thought she was. You have to somehow find a way to accept her the way she is. You don't have to be married forever and return home at some point, so remember that. The culture may work for the locals, but maybe not for you. It works for me sometimes.
I am grateful to be a North American, I am proud to be one in many ways, thought there are many things that are horrible as well. I like the work atmosphere, in general, back in the U.S., but the hard work I've done over here will have served me well upon my return. You can learn many things from another culture. Find what you can learn. Most of us get annoyed with many things in Korea including the students and adults. Some of my students said to me, "Teacher, I hate Korea". I was surprised. I just commented basically, "You don't really hate Korea, you're just tired of not having much time to relax and play and be children." Koreans get frustrated with Korea. Keep that in mind.
Many Koreans have a mixture of love and hate for their country. I think the country has tonnes of potential if they can get a sane, honest government in there to do something. |
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