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Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

A couple of days ago I was talking to a Canadian ESL teacher, and she just couldn't seem to believe some of the things I was telling her about Korean teachers and schools.

Well, today my sister used a sick day on less than two hours' notice (she's an operating room surgical assitant) because her dog was sick, never mind the fact that both her fiance and I were on hand to take care of it. Do you think any Koreans will believe that?

Yesanman · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Location: Chungnam

In this morning's adult class I showed an email from my friend in Finland.
In it he talks about the 5 weeks he gets in holidays and he's only worked for his company for 1 year. He also mentions the 3 weeks paid holiday he gets because his wife had a baby.

Needless to say the Koreans were stunned that someone could get 8 weeks of holidays.

Aussiekimchi · Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Location: SYDNEY

My adults class cannot believe these things about Australia:
1. We eat Kangaroo, snake and crocodile weekly
2. Drop bears are actually mutated meat eating Koalas that will attack a tourist as the flash of the camera excites them.
3. Tasmanians have an 11th finger surgically removed from their foreheads at birth
4. Our ex Prime Minister held the World yard glass beer drinking record.
5. In most Australian kitchen we have 3 faucets: Hot water, Cold Water and fresh porridge
6. Much of Australian land is actually owned by foreign countries/businesses.
7. A teacher can be held lible if they allow a student to play outside without a hat.

ThePoet · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:33 am Post subject:

try hitting them with this:

In Canada, if you and your spouse have a baby, the man qualifies for 1 YEAR of paternity leave on employment insurance, and the company must hold his job for him. This is not even during the event that the mother dies giving birth or there is a divorce...I am talking a fully intact family here.

Not sure about common-law relationships or same-sex marriages, but in a man-woman married family, this is the rule.

Poet

Sina qua non · Joined: 20 Jun 2006

rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

Number 4 is right ?

I know Bob Hawke had a whole string of drinking records in the Guinness Book of Records a while back.

Aussiekimchi · Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Location: SYDNEY

as are 2 more in the list ....
now Roth is there any chance of you shining any light on a few KIWI myths?
I did hear recently that you guys found a new use for sheep.....you're eatin' them now!

rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

Can't remember any NZ myths off the top of my head.However...a quiz.

A famous NZ delicacy is fried ,battered lambs brains.

Are they called

A,Sweetbreads
B,Sweetheads?

Fried,battered goats *beep* are another NZ delicacy.

Are they called

A,Golden nuggets
B,Fools Gold?

Winners to be announced in tomorrows issue of the Southland Times

kiwiliz · Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Location: New Zealand

ummmm.....she clears her throat....sweetbreads....not the brains that are battered. Usually eaten around docking time.

considered a delicacy!

rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

How about fried bulls spinal column at the Wild Food Festival....any name for that?

Docking time...you mean the tails?People eat that?Or a different part is docked?

I never lived on a farm