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nomad-ish · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:17 pm Post subject: lunch

since my public school is slowly turning into bootcamp, i'd like to pose a question: can i be made to work my lunch hour? work as in supervising students in the library, etc.?

i've got the standard PS contract

fromtheuk · Joined: 31 Mar 2007

My last co-teacher tried to suggest I work during lunch a couple of times. I told her where to go, I explained to her nobody at our school works during lunch.

OP - You've got to start asserting yourself. I take the approach I will do as little as possible and if they even think about giving me extra work, I will be as obtuse as possible, without doing anything wrong.

That way, I have an easy life and they know it is futile to even approach me, let alone demand anything new. Laughing

My Principal doesn't care about extra work, I like that. Laughing

Rusty Shackleford · Joined: 08 May 2008

If my schools ask me to do something I usually ask ,why? Koreans aren't very good at answering this question because they don't often ask it. I get out of some stuff this way.

JJJ · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Location: Seoul

BS.Dos. · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

We just had seaweed soup again. It's taken me 18-months, but I've arrived at the conclusion that I'd rather drink my own piss.

sobriquet · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Location: Nakatomi Plaza

I've never been keen on chomping down on lumps of kelp.

espoir · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Location: Incheon, South Korea

Xuanzang · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Sadang

We had fried fish pieces, cucumber kimchi, yuk gae jang and rice.

BS.Dos. · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

I eat (and enjoy) considerably more now than I did during the first 6-months. I think slowly, slowly is the best approach to the cuisine over here.

The line is still firmly drawn under seaweed soup, octopus and dog though.

Illysook · Joined: 30 Jun 2008

Don't you just love it when the seaweed soup (among other things) is served lukewarm or just plain cold? And why do they bother to cook the broccoli if they are going to serve it cold with catsup?

Xuanzang · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Sadang

The best lunch was when they did fried chicken pieces, imitation Pogo sticks and macaroni salad. Of course they had the Korean green veggies stems and kimchi but the rest was amazing (for school).

espoir · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Location: Incheon, South Korea

The funniest thing I saw when I used to eat lunches at the school cafeteria was when we had wraps one day. Except you have to make your own wrap and so the lunch ladies put out an example of a finished wrap so that all the teachers could see what it was supposed to look like when done.

I laughed heartily to myself when I saw it, and laughed out loud when one of my co-teachers tried to explain to me how to make it look like that, as if I'd never seen a wrap before. hahaha unbelieveable!

sobriquet · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Location: Nakatomi Plaza

I've sat with my school nutritionist at a dinner and discussed the merits of putting nice red apples into that vinegared chilli sauce and throwing in some octopus. I basically why the hell she did it. She said it was delicious.

We were at the time being served river weed soup, which is minging.

Perceptioncheck · Joined: 13 Oct 2008

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

I like/can tolerate nearly everything except for the sea slugs. It's a shame they put them into a fairly decent soup cause one bite of one of those things and I'm gagging. I'm not a big fan of the seaweed soup (Mi Yuk Gook) either, but it's one of those things I can tolerate.