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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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 Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:33 am Post subject: Don't you love the feeling... |
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...when you get a new job and the whole world seems RIGHT and exciting, before the minor annoyances have time to raise their ugly little heads and become daily disillusioning reality?
I snagged what I think will be a GREAT job today and I'm feeling pretty damn good about it. I applied three times before and was always turned down because of age...and because young, cute, blond, FOB people applied...and then kept getting fired. FINALLY the place has someone in command who wants to try someone with experience, not to mention a teaching license. What a refreshing change. |
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Pak Yu Man
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:03 am Post subject: |
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Dancing ?  |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:11 am Post subject: |
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Up the walls and across the ceiling.
And back again. |
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ella
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:01 am Post subject: |
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| Sounds great, Ya-ta Boy! |
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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
Location: In the pot with the rest of the mutts
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:07 am Post subject: |
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Great news, Yata. Another technical High School again?  What's that you're saying, over your dead what?  |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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 Just 10 more days (half days) of high school losers before I move on to a life with real live adults. During the day! Adults who, after they learn to speak actually have something to say in response to "How was your weekend? What did you do?" besides, "Sleeping" or "Computer games". |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| Just 10 more days (half days) of high school losers before I move on to a life with real live adults. During the day! Adults who, after they learn to speak actually have something to say in response to "How was your weekend? What did you do?" besides, "Sleeping" or "Computer games". |
Actually, you're likely to get the same responses from adults, along with maybe "soju." However, congratulations. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Actually, you're likely to get the same responses |
Yeah, many adults can be just as boring as kids. But I've taught this kind of student before (military) and the percentage of interesting people is much, much higher than in an average group.
Examples:
I once asked a student what he did last summer and he answered, "I sank a North Korean submarine".
I asked another student what that thing was he was wearing around his neck. "Oh, this piece of metal? It's the (I forget what he called it, but it's the thing you pull on a parachute to make it open). My chute didn't open so I had to pull this. It saved my life." |
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4 months left
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| denverdeath wrote: |
| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| Just 10 more days (half days) of high school losers before I move on to a life with real live adults. During the day! Adults who, after they learn to speak actually have something to say in response to "How was your weekend? What did you do?" besides, "Sleeping" or "Computer games". |
Actually, you're likely to get the same responses from adults, along with maybe "soju." However, congratulations. |
And also "nothing special" but I wouldn't trade adults for kids anyday. I suggest you don't change your style much though, they are used to the totalitarian system of teaching so you have to pretty much tell them what to do. I've learned "what do you want to do?" doesn't work very well. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Congats YATA! |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: Re: Don't you love the feeling... |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| I applied three times before and was always turned down because of age...and because young, cute, blond, FOB people applied...and then kept getting fired. |
If you are blonde, young and american you can do no wrong. People learn english just by looking at you. |
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