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Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

When the bell rang this morning, the class leader raised his hand and made a memorized speech that went something like this:

"As you know, this weekend is Happy New Year and at that time we tradition present a gift to old people and our teacher. We prepared at this time a tiny gift for you."

Whereupon he handed be a big heavy shopping bag with a shiny gift box of 6 bottles of Pantene shampoo and 4 bars of Ivory soap. Very Happy

Practical and useful. AND I know that the bubbles represent 'good fortune'.

You can imagine my relief when it wasn't a gift box of Spam.

KAMAKAZI · Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Location: Jamshil

ALL Solal gifts SUCK, except for cash

Regiving them to people I should buy for is the best way to go

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

I gave nothing. I got nothing. I don't care.

VanIslander · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:04 am Post subject:

lots of socks

(and they don't even fit!)

Misera · Joined: 12 Oct 2008

got one of those giftsets from the grocery store too.. The Principal had me come for a 20 min meeting in the middle of my class and after saying a bunch of stuff in Korean, I was given a giftset and allowed to go back to class >_>

6 tubes of toothpaste (2 median, 2 median that says 71%.. what does this mean??, 2 with korean on it but looks like theres berries or something)
4 bars of happy bath soap (lavender, apple vanilla, olive, and milky powder)
Shampoo and conditioner (mise en scene)
Body soap (happy bath cream aroma.. smells good :p)

I like everything except the fact that I just bought toothpaste and soap that'll last me longer than the time I'll be here. Now I've got more Surprised

Has anyone ever used the median toothpaste? Is it any good?

fadedgirl · Joined: 26 Nov 2006

20 apples and taxi-blocked.
so I got to walk home with 20 apples and frozen fingers.

vdowd · Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Location: Iksan

A big box of delicious kim (seaweed laver) like every teacher. It is ideal for the person leaving in 3 weeks who has always declined kimbap and during staff dinners ordered biminibap without kim because they can't stand kim.

It was a very thoughtful gesture that was regifted immediately. Nice to know that after 4 years at the school, that they have noted my preference to be kim less.

This is said "tongue in cheek" with a grin at the way the individual is prized.

esetters21 · Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Location: Seoul

Five weeks of vacation/home stay.

I'm no Picasso · Joined: 28 Oct 2008

Kaypea · Joined: 09 Oct 2008

Giant box of pears from the director. Nothing from students Sad

One teacher got 2 bottles of wine from a kindergarten student.

cedarseoul · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Location: nowon-gu

50K to Outback, and cookies. Last year was better; I got 100K to Lotte and wine.

tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

12 cans of tuna, pretty practical for me and about 50 apples. Maybe this should be moved to the buy and sell forum...

50 apples for sale, great condition. Never used - received as present. Will work in American or Korean mouths.

Knucklehead · Joined: 06 Jan 2008

Denmark ham set.

6 spam like containers of "Denmark Ham" and 2 bottles of grape seed oil.

i have a sneaking suspicion it is actually spam.

If it looks like spam and tastes like spam...

Anyways, it's the thought that counts I guess.

ChinaBoy · Joined: 17 Feb 2007

This holiday sucks. I got nothing.

Still, I would feel bad to get a bar of soap as a gift. "What, do I stink or something?"

aka Dave · Joined: 02 May 2008 Location: Down by the river

I didn't get one for the lunar new year, the school's been closed for a while except for the students taking the teacher exam.

I did get one for our new year, a sweater, from my boss, a sweet woman. It either makes me look gay, or like a little boy, I can't decide which.