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Yesterday · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 1:10 am Post subject: How many socks??

Its teachers day on Saturday....

just wanted to know how many socks/flowers you got?

what other strange/useful gifts did you get?

dogbert · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: Killbox 90210

I thought you were referring to this board.

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

elizabethjane · Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Location: Suwon

*a huge lollipop
*2 baskets of flowers
*2 handkerchiefs
*fishnets
*body wash
*Peeing Korean dolls
*1 watermelon
*1 pineapple
*12 oranges
*16 bananas

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

I used to get tons of hankerchiefs. I took them home and gave them to my dad for Christmas. He still uses them.

elizabethjane · Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Location: Suwon

I don't know what to do with them...I guess I could blow my nose in style, but the thought of carrying them around with me all day and having to wash them...I don't know.

Dawn · Joined: 06 Mar 2004

Just two pairs of socks, gosh darn it, and my sock drawer needs a good refilling. Can't complain, though. The sock dirth was the result of several parents deciding to go all out. Walked away with two baskets of flowers, two potted plants, a beautiful framed dried floral arrangement, a set of framed prints featuring my kinder kids, barrettes a nice bath set, two bottles of perfume that cost well over W100,000, and a handful of notes and cards from my kids and their parents. Plus, we've got a major event tomorrow involving all the kids and their parents, so there's hope for the sock drawer yet.

matthews_world · Joined: 15 Feb 2003

Teacher's Day, okay that makes sense. I was wonderin' what all the gift-giving hubbub was about.

Last year I got lucky. This year, so far, just a box of juice.

Very Happy

wylde · Joined: 14 Apr 2003

18 pair last year Rolling Eyes

osangrl · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Location: osan

6 pair this year.

I got lots of flowers, food and hair pins. Not bad.

peppermint · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 5:20 am Post subject:

Lots of flowers, some cakes, a rhinestone encursted hairpin, and lots of utterly adorable cards.

Zyzyfer · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 5:35 am Post subject:

I'm glad I'm not around for this Teacher's Day. The last one was at the middle school. Everyone got a little something, but one of the teachers, who I came to loathe, just kept getting piles and piles of shit. I don't mind students playing favorites, but that was ridiculous.

oneiros · Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Location: Villa Straylight

I'm so glad that I'm the only foreign teacher at my hogwan this year. I really don't miss the ego contest that teacher's day sets off in some people. As if the quality of your teaching can really be measured in the number of socks and handkerchiefs you get.

With that said, my sock count is seven pairs, mostly pink. I think the parents may be suggesting a change in my wardrobe colours.

deepblue · Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 1:12 am Post subject:

at my school we were not allowed to accept presents.
The director thinks the present are bribes. We had to return everything, except the food and flowers.

kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

I got NOTHING>