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nickwils
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 Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:14 pm Post subject: Is the threat of WWIII... |
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Making the current job market more fluid? I guess a few newbies will be watching CBS/Fox news in the states and decide they might not want to live in Korea after all.
Any views? |
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Lucas
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| Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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But I've seen an increase in 'weekend warriors' applying to be ESL teachers in Korea.
They are fantasizing about the possible outbreak of war and being here to experience it!
Meanwhile they are stocking up on 'spam' and other canned goods and bottled water -
For the love of god, stop buying all the canned food. There is enough to go round! |
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nickwils
Joined: 30 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Ha ha they are in the right country to stock up on spam & tuna if nothing else.
Perhaps they should just join the TA and get shipped off to Iraq or somewhere that's hosting a real war? |
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comm
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| Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 5:55 am Post subject: |
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| Lucas wrote: |
| But I've seen an increase in 'weekend warriors' applying to be ESL teachers in Korea. |
Could you elaborate on this?
How can you tell they're "weekend warriors" that are excited about the tension? |
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I'm With You
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| Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 6:34 am Post subject: |
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My mom and dad want me to return to the US immediately. But I'm really excited about it all. There won't be a war' but it's fun to dream!
I won't go home, though, I'm a TEFL soldier. I'll be TEFL'ing on the front lines, baby. |
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young_clinton
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| Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 6:36 am Post subject: |
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| I'm With You wrote: |
My mom and dad want me to return to the US immediately. But I'm really excited about it all. There won't be a war' but it's fun to dream!
I won't go home, though, I'm a TEFL soldier. I'll be TEFL'ing on the front lines, baby. |
I really don't think you're taking much risk. |
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I'm With You
Joined: 01 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 6:40 am Post subject: |
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| young_clinton wrote: |
| I'm With You wrote: |
My mom and dad want me to return to the US immediately. But I'm really excited about it all. There won't be a war' but it's fun to dream!
I won't go home, though, I'm a TEFL soldier. I'll be TEFL'ing on the front lines, baby. |
I really don't think you're taking much risk. |
I wanna be in the "shit." |
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nickwils
Joined: 30 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:10 am Post subject: |
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| I'm With You wrote: |
My mom and dad want me to return to the US immediately. But I'm really excited about it all. There won't be a war' but it's fun to dream!
I won't go home, though, I'm a TEFL soldier. I'll be TEFL'ing on the front lines, baby. |
I notice there are some 'international' schools advertising in Afghanistan if you require more action than you are seeing in the mean streets of Moran or where ever you're currently based. |
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Mw182006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:13 am Post subject: |
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| I'm a newb and about to apply for the fall term, so there's some anecdotal evidence for you. The idea of 'weekend warriors' becoming ESL teachers in order to experience war though? That's pretty absurd. |
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nickwils
Joined: 30 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:17 am Post subject: |
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| Mw182006 wrote: |
| I'm a newb and about to apply for the fall term, so there's some anecdotal evidence for you. The idea of 'weekend warriors' becoming ESL teachers in order to experience war though? That's pretty absurd. |
You would be surprised.
Ask the average US teacher in Vietnam, are they there for the Pho and good $ hourly rate or are they really there to relive 'nam' a few decades too late.
I think you already know the answer to that one. |
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I'm With You
Joined: 01 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| nickwils wrote: |
| Mw182006 wrote: |
| I'm a newb and about to apply for the fall term, so there's some anecdotal evidence for you. The idea of 'weekend warriors' becoming ESL teachers in order to experience war though? That's pretty absurd. |
You would be surprised.
Ask the average US teacher in Vietnam, are they there for the Pho and good $ hourly rate or are they really there to relive 'nam' a few decades too late.
I think you already know the answer to that one. |
Damn right it's a surprise.
I remember we were hunkered down in '92 at a Berlitz in Kangnam. We were working 6 days on, 1 day off. 12 hour days. Low on men to fill the positions that were open. We had to rely on each other. Guys were dropping in the hallways - half awake with their class files still in their hands.
Split shifts, first shift at 6:45am. Back again at 4:00pm with a barrage of corporate students hitting us until 9:45pm. It wasn't pretty but we managed and we fought back.
I hated what we'd become. I saw another side to myself that I never would have imagined existed. We were younger then. |
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augustine
Joined: 08 Sep 2012
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| Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:33 am Post subject: |
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| I'm With You wrote: |
| nickwils wrote: |
| Mw182006 wrote: |
| I'm a newb and about to apply for the fall term, so there's some anecdotal evidence for you. The idea of 'weekend warriors' becoming ESL teachers in order to experience war though? That's pretty absurd. |
You would be surprised.
Ask the average US teacher in Vietnam, are they there for the Pho and good $ hourly rate or are they really there to relive 'nam' a few decades too late.
I think you already know the answer to that one. |
Damn right it's a surprise.
I remember we were hunkered down in '92 at a Berlitz in Kangnam. We were working 6 days on, 1 day off. 12 hour days. Low on men to fill the positions that were open. We had to rely on each other. Guys were dropping in the hallways - half awake with their class files still in their hands.
Split shifts, first shift at 6:45am. Back again at 4:00pm with a barrage of corporate students hitting us until 9:45pm. It wasn't pretty but we managed and we fought back.
I hated what we'd become. I saw another side to myself that I never would have imagined existed. We were younger then. |
I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves, and the enemy was in us  |
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Lucas
Joined: 11 Sep 2012
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| Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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[/quote]Lucas wrote:
But I've seen an increase in 'weekend warriors' applying to be ESL teachers in Korea.
Could you elaborate on this?
How can you tell they're "weekend warriors" that are excited about the tension?
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Where I live, the back of my apartment faces out onto several mountains - not walking paths btw.
I've seen over the last couple of weeks a small group of foreigners�, carrying up spades/small timber a huge cool box and lots of other things.
I sometimes see them coming back down - but they're never carrying anything!
I guess I�ve found their 'bug out' location if they decide to dig in! 
Or they're partaking in a horticultural activity  |
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EZE
Joined: 05 May 2012
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| Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| nickwils wrote: |
Ask the average US teacher in Vietnam, are they there for the Pho and good $ hourly rate or are they really there to relive 'nam' a few decades too late.
I think you already know the answer to that one. |
I worked in Vietnam to live on the beach with my Vietnamese girlfriend at the time, to travel in an interesting country with warm people, to have fun with my girlfriend and her cousin, and to leave with more money than when I arrived.
I wasn't there for the pho, but I'm not in Korea for the kimchi. That doesn't mean I'm here to relive the Korean War either and I hope the tensions calm down.
The Vietnam War was one of the USA's biggest historical tragedies, hardly one an American would want to relive. |
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EZE
Joined: 05 May 2012
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| Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| The people burying coolers sound much more like a group of like-minded paranoid civilian ESLers rather than a National Guard unit self-deploying itself and using E-2 visas as a means to arrive. |
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