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byrddogs
Joined: 19 Jun 2009
Location: Shanghai
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 Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:45 pm Post subject: What is your summer schedule like? |
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| We finished up today and don't go back until August 21st. |
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beckett
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
Location: Ireland
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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Another thinly veiled brag thread!
I finish up in 2 weeks and am going travelling for a year  I win |
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beckett
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
Location: Ireland
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Why are you posting this in the Korean job forum if you're in Shanghai?? |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| i finish up in 2 weeks and then Im off until I feel like going back to work again, so maybe next January. |
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byrddogs
Joined: 19 Jun 2009
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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| beckett wrote: |
| Why are you posting this in the Korean job forum if you're in Shanghai?? |
Ummm..let's see. Maybe it's because I work at a Korean gov. school still. As far as your other comment goes; nah, not thinly vailed or bragging. Enjoy your year off. Sounds like you need it. |
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beckett
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
Location: Ireland
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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Cheers!
But consider the crappy hagwon workers who only get 5 days off ! |
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I-am-me
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Hermit Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I could take a vacation from the 25th to the 5th of Aug (7 days). Then I have 3 weeks of summer classes until term starts again. Since I need to prepare, its means only taking 2 days of vacation. Hagwons starting to sound better than public school. |
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wonkavite62
Joined: 17 Dec 2007
Location: Jeollanamdo, South Korea.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:52 pm Post subject: Summer Camp Nonsense |
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I am an experienced teacher. I have previously taught in summer schools in the U.K. I would teach in China until June, then do a summer school in England for I weeks. I enjoyed it ! And I still got a nice holiday afterwards. I will do it again some time.
But here in Hicksville, Jeollanamdo, teachers must do a "summer camp" as part of the contract. Nobody told me until last week that I would be teaching just one class for a week, and maybe 2, and I ended up having to do not just 20 lessons but 20 separate lesson plans. I may have to do 40 lesson plans, for just one measly class. I have to pay for everything.
What the Korean govt. call a summer camp is just unprofesional compared to other stuff I did. Call it Confucian culture. I just think that it's the government being unprofessional. [/b] |
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byrddogs
Joined: 19 Jun 2009
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| beckett wrote: |
| But consider the crappy hagwon workers who only get 5 days off ! |
Been there and done that. I'm of the opinion that all newbies to the ROK should experience hagwon life in the beginning.
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I am an experienced teacher. I have previously taught in summer schools in the U.K. I would teach in China until June, then do a summer school in England for I weeks. I enjoyed it ! And I still got a nice holiday afterwards. I will do it again some time.
But here in Hicksville, Jeollanamdo, teachers must do a "summer camp" as part of the contract. Nobody told me until last week that I would be teaching just one class for a week, and maybe 2, and I ended up having to do not just 20 lessons but 20 separate lesson plans. I may have to do 40 lesson plans, for just one measly class. I have to pay for everything.
What the Korean govt. call a summer camp is just unprofesional compared to other stuff I did. Call it Confucian culture. I just think that it's the government being unprofessional. [/b] |
It looks like things are still one in the same as when I was working ps there. The NET has to do it just because someone decided that everyone needed to thing. I was pretty lucky in my school placement, but I still had mandatory break camps.
| beckett wrote: |
| Another thinly veiled brag thread! |
If that was really my intent, I could have gone on and on as to why where I am is better, but I didn't. I am just curious about conditions there these days. |
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Beeyee
Joined: 29 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:42 am Post subject: |
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I have intensive classes on top of my normal schedule.
Yay  |
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:21 pm Post subject: Re: Summer Camp Nonsense |
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| wonkavite62 wrote: |
| What the Korean govt. call a summer camp is just unprofesional compared to other stuff I did. Call it Confucian culture. I just think that it's the government being unprofessional. |
Stop thinking of it as teaching English, start think of it as babysitting. That's what it really is. They don't care if you teach English, that's just the trick to make it your job. |
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fustiancorduroy
Joined: 12 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 7:16 am Post subject: |
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| I just had 7 days off. Summer is when I have my intensive schedule. I'll be working M-Sat. from about 9 am to 7 pm for the next 5 weeks. But it's cool because this is the time of year where I can make the most money. So bring it on. |
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waynehead
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Location: Jongno
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| Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:51 pm Post subject: Re: What is your summer schedule like? |
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| byrddogs wrote: |
| We finished up today and don't go back until August 21st. |
Me too! Shh! Keep it secret, you fool! |
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Jimskins
Joined: 07 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Finished on June 13th, back on September 2nd. 이세상이 너무 힘들어 호호호 |
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tob55
Joined: 29 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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Finishing up my dissertation before the fall semester begins and I am back in classes teaching. No plans to travel since I will have only three weeks between the end of my summer responsibilities for the University and the beginning of fall semester classes which begin the first week of September.
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