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Missihippi · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Location: Gwangmyeong

WTF!? I guess i shouldn't be complaining, but i had a nice lesson planned out... The teacher called right before class and said "they might be a few minutes late", then 20 minutes passed and she called and said "game is still going, we will make it up some other time".

Never in my wildest dreams would i have been allowed to not go to class in order to watch a sporting event when i was in school.

Anyone else?

harlowethrombey · Joined: 17 Mar 2009 Location: Seoul

are you american? You must remember March Madness, my high school did FA all day when basketball is on.

I had 2 classes in a row where we all just watched TV. Too bad it didnt go a few more innings.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

My afternoon class got to watch part of the game. My morning classes weren't so lucky. They forget about it after a few minutes and get on with the lesson ... unless they hear cheering coming from the class of a teacher who's nicer than me.

gazz · Joined: 13 Oct 2008

England were playing in the world cup a few years back, I think it was the one in Korea and Japan.

England kicked off around lunch time (UK) time so we went back to my house to watch it (we were 15 or 16 at the time).

We decided to miss our first lesson after lunch and opened a few of my dads beers.

We had stupidly already asked our English teacher if he planned on showing us the game. He said no - hence us staying at my house. A couple of beers later we staggered back to school, just in time for Basketball.

Within 3 minutes of playing one of my freinds threw up on the court. This was just as the head master came into the sports hall to catch up with the evil truants!

We got off lightly in the end. He didn't realise that we'd been drinking, so we only got a couple of detentions each.

The most annoying part was the English teacher changed his mind and let the rest of the class watch the game!

Leaving the shed door open was a masterstroke though because my dad thought that he had done it the night before and someone had stolen the beer. Smile

Missihippi · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Location: Gwangmyeong

roadwork · Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Location: Goin' up the country

Come on you guys all know how Koreans take this nationalistic stuff, even sports, to the most extreme level of flag waving. I'm glad they lost.

On another note, one of the coteachers asked me if I was sad that the US was out. I told him that we don't consider the WBC to be important at all and no one (American) even cares about it. He was quite shocked.

alex83 · Joined: 03 May 2007

Apparently the Office of Ed. in my district called the VP and told her it's fine to let kids watch the game in class.

So, today, my whole job consisted of finding internet feeds to play the game on the big screen in my class.

Sometimes the feeds went out.
Ever had 40 Korean kids scream at you like you killed their dog?
Yeah.

poet13 · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:19 pm Post subject:

My coteacher thought it would be a good idea to watch. I didn't and its my class. Boys were ok though.

DrOctagon · Joined: 11 Jun 2008 Location: Chicago

waynehead · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Location: Jongno

I grew up in North Carolina. Every year during the ACC basketball tournament we would spend Friday afternoon watching games.

cvmurrieta · Joined: 02 Mar 2009 Location: Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Wish my office would have let us go home and paid for it. Maybe they will tomorrow since Samurai Japan won the WBC

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

poet13 · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:37 pm Post subject:

Yeah, my coteacher kept sneaking out into the hall and checking his phone.

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

Meh, nothing to get worked up over. It's a once in a lifetime . . . er, once in an adolescence (sp?) experience, or at least would have been had they won. You're going to be the one guy who makes them sit in class and study? Many of the classes here were watching the game. I'm not in favor of cancelling school to watch sports---most parents probably aren't either, should their kids go home and say "mommy, English Monkey let us watch baseball today!"---but it doesn't help when all your colleagues are doing it, too. Just go with the flow.

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

During two of my classes today we watched the game. It's hard not to when you can hear the class next door screaming about it. I did some mini baseball lessons during the ads and found out that pretty much all of the terminology is Konglish, they even say the score and number of balls and strikes in English.

I remember when I was in grade five or so my class gathered round the TV to watch the challenger launch. d'Oh!