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mindmetoo
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 Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject: Sell this idea to your newspaper back at home |
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You might be able to get your big city free weekly to go for this, since a lot of their readers are probably the type to lean towards teaching in Korea/Asia.
First, find some great horror stories on Dave's. Send that to them along with your pitch for an on going series you will write for them. You will purposely get hired by a notoriously bad hagwon (I bet you that might prove harder than it seems... based on the theory there is never a cop or PC bang around when you actually need one). You will then write weekly dispatches as your job goes south in a cringe worthy, yet funny-as-hell way. |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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One of those ideas where the story in question wouldn't be even half as interesting to the readers as the one experiencing it would imagine.
Kind of like when you're abroad in an exotic locale, it's a hot balmy night and there's an incredible mood / aura / energy all around. You see a tree blown in the wind or a scene nearby that looks transcendant, suffused with all the magical qualities that have sparked off that amazing sensation in your soul.
But when you show the photo to friends, all they see is a non descript tree or a dull, street scene, beacause a photo can rarely capture what you were experiencing subjectively....
Imagine.
"Today I got told to give all the kids A's for their exams even though they mostly got C's and D's. I complained to my boss that this was an unrealsitic portrayal of their real English ability and was misleading their parents. He said he knows that and he just wants the parent's money. I feel like a glorified babysitter. If the kids were in classes that reflected their real ability, they would learn better. But there are kids who are low level students who are in the top classes just because their parents requested it. They are losing out because the class is too difficult for them so they end up learning nothing, though their parents imagine that simply being in the top class will make them become fluent by some mysterious proccess of osmosis. One kid told me 'Teacher Puck you.' and another shoved his finger up my @rse. I had exhausted the water thin 'lesson plan' my school provides as teaching material by the first ten minutes so spent the next half hour playing hangman. My Boss asked to see me after lunch and when I asked him what was wrong, he told me 'Some parents complained that you are not funny enough to their kids. Make a good frinedship with the students in your class, love them like special friends okay?' This was punctuated by him banging his fists on his desk like a gorilla. Why oh why am I doing this day in day out. The money I suppose.... I just saw Miss Lee teacher crying in the lobby. The boss was shouting at her for something. Everyone else just stood round watching.
etc....
Not really much variation to be added....
BUT - lets play a game.
Next poster cut and paste the para above and then write another para continuing in the voice of our hakwan teacher character.
Next poter do same etc...
Let's see where we can take this baby.
Hollywood here we come!
We'll call it 'Lost Seoul.'
Or 'Hakwan flew over the kimchi pot.'
Or perhaps 'Soju think you can hack it in Sparklin' Korea?'
Then I'll kill myself. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| venus wrote: |
One of those ideas where the story in question wouldn't be even half as interesting to the readers as the one experiencing it would imagine.
Kind of like when you're abroad in an exotic locale, it's a hot balmy night and there's an incredible mood / aura / energy all around. You see a tree blown in the wind or a scene nearby that looks transcendant, suffused with all the magical qualities that have sparked off that amazing sensation in your soul. |
It's a point to ponder, but I think a good writer wouldn't drop the ball. |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| venus wrote: |
One of those ideas where the story in question wouldn't be even half as interesting to the readers as the one experiencing it would imagine.
Kind of like when you're abroad in an exotic locale, it's a hot balmy night and there's an incredible mood / aura / energy all around. You see a tree blown in the wind or a scene nearby that looks transcendant, suffused with all the magical qualities that have sparked off that amazing sensation in your soul. |
It's a point to ponder, but I think a good writer wouldn't drop the ball. |
Unlike say, war coverage - not much different happens every day at a Hakwan. It's the same thing day in day out with slight variation. What you're proposing is called a blog. Yuk.
Would be boring after a few days, good writer or not. Subject matter is repetative. If what carried it was the writers persona / wit etc, then again, you have a blog or a weekly collumn. The problem with that is a weekly collumn is usually only offered to someone of interest / acclaim whom the public is familliar with. It is their celebrity minor or major that draws the reader's attention initially. Not the type of person who teaches English in Korea.
Call me a cynic but...
But like with most things, you should now go ahead and do it just to prove people like me wrong perhaps.... |
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AwesomeA
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
Location: Yeosu
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Better Idea.
Set a bunch of teachers up in a hogwan, where they are unknowlingly abused by a wonjang with a camera, camera all around the school and in very room in their apt. and set a video stream up on Dave's for us all to enjoy. |
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mindmetoo
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| Wasn't there some reality TV show a while ago following the lives of ESL teachers in Taiwan? Back in 2003, before I came to Korea, I swear everyone kept telling me about this show. |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
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I like your game idea, Venus. "Let's RAWK!! Yeah, Wooooo." As they say in bad movies.
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"Today I got told to give all the kids A's for their exams even though they mostly got C's and D's. I complained to my boss that this was an unrealsitic portrayal of their real English ability and was misleading their parents. He said he knows that and he just wants the parent's money. I feel like a glorified babysitter. If the kids were in classes that reflected their real ability, they would learn better. But there are kids who are low level students who are in the top classes just because their parents requested it. They are losing out because the class is too difficult for them so they end up learning nothing, though their parents imagine that simply being in the top class will make them become fluent by some mysterious proccess of osmosis. One kid told me 'Teacher Puck you.' and another shoved his finger up my @rse. I had exhausted the water thin 'lesson plan' my school provides as teaching material by the first ten minutes so spent the next half hour playing hangman. My Boss asked to see me after lunch and when I asked him what was wrong, he told me 'Some parents complained that you are not funny enough to their kids. Make a good frinedship with the students in your class, love them like special friends okay?' This was punctuated by him banging his fists on his desk like a gorilla. Why oh why am I doing this day in day out. The money I suppose.... I just saw Miss Lee teacher crying in the lobby. The boss was shouting at her for something. Everyone else just stood round watching.
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After I left work today, I got lost on my way home. Everything looks the same to me here. I thought I could use the Bytheway and the big cheesy looking church as a landmark, but no. After wandering around for about three hours I finally gave up and took a taxi. He couldn't understand me though and took me to a different city altogether. It cost me ninety bucks to get home again. God, I miss my mom. |
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blynch
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: UCLA
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:00 am Post subject: Re: Sell this idea to your newspaper back at home |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
You might be able to get your big city free weekly to go for this, since a lot of their readers are probably the type to lean towards teaching in Korea/Asia.
First, find some great horror stories on Dave's. Send that to them along with your pitch for an on going series you will write for them. You will purposely get hired by a notoriously bad hagwon (I bet you that might prove harder than it seems... based on the theory there is never a cop or PC bang around when you actually need one). You will then write weekly dispatches as your job goes south in a cringe worthy, yet funny-as-hell way. |
Your IQ must be 77 or less.
(at what point between moon and earth do the gravitational fields of these two bodies cancel?) |
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Jeju Rocks
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:03 am Post subject: Re: Sell this idea to your newspaper back at home |
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| blynch wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
You might be able to get your big city free weekly to go for this, since a lot of their readers are probably the type to lean towards teaching in Korea/Asia.
First, find some great horror stories on Dave's. Send that to them along with your pitch for an on going series you will write for them. You will purposely get hired by a notoriously bad hagwon (I bet you that might prove harder than it seems... based on the theory there is never a cop or PC bang around when you actually need one). You will then write weekly dispatches as your job goes south in a cringe worthy, yet funny-as-hell way. |
Your IQ must be 77 or less.
(at what point between moon and earth do the gravitational fields of these two bodies cancel?) |
You try too hard. (The Lagrangian points are points within the solar system where gravity is balanced out. The Apollo astronauts were the only humans to experience true zero G as they passed through one of these points. All other people in space are in free fall.) |
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blynch
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: UCLA
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:00 am Post subject: Re: Sell this idea to your newspaper back at home |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| blynch wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
You might be able to get your big city free weekly to go for this, since a lot of their readers are probably the type to lean towards teaching in Korea/Asia.
First, find some great horror stories on Dave's. Send that to them along with your pitch for an on going series you will write for them. You will purposely get hired by a notoriously bad hagwon (I bet you that might prove harder than it seems... based on the theory there is never a cop or PC bang around when you actually need one). You will then write weekly dispatches as your job goes south in a cringe worthy, yet funny-as-hell way. |
Your IQ must be 77 or less.
(at what point between moon and earth do the gravitational fields of these two bodies cancel?) |
You try too hard. (The Lagrangian points are points within the solar system where gravity is balanced out. The Apollo astronauts were the only humans to experience true zero G as they passed through one of these points. All other people in space are in free fall.) |
Googled again? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:19 am Post subject: Re: Sell this idea to your newspaper back at home |
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| blynch wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| blynch wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
You might be able to get your big city free weekly to go for this, since a lot of their readers are probably the type to lean towards teaching in Korea/Asia.
First, find some great horror stories on Dave's. Send that to them along with your pitch for an on going series you will write for them. You will purposely get hired by a notoriously bad hagwon (I bet you that might prove harder than it seems... based on the theory there is never a cop or PC bang around when you actually need one). You will then write weekly dispatches as your job goes south in a cringe worthy, yet funny-as-hell way. |
Your IQ must be 77 or less.
(at what point between moon and earth do the gravitational fields of these two bodies cancel?) |
You try too hard. (The Lagrangian points are points within the solar system where gravity is balanced out. The Apollo astronauts were the only humans to experience true zero G as they passed through one of these points. All other people in space are in free fall.) |
Googled again? |
No blynch. It's easter. Shouldn't you be praying, instead of trying to be clever? |
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blynch
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: UCLA
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:21 am Post subject: Re: Sell this idea to your newspaper back at home |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| blynch wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| blynch wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
You might be able to get your big city free weekly to go for this, since a lot of their readers are probably the type to lean towards teaching in Korea/Asia.
First, find some great horror stories on Dave's. Send that to them along with your pitch for an on going series you will write for them. You will purposely get hired by a notoriously bad hagwon (I bet you that might prove harder than it seems... based on the theory there is never a cop or PC bang around when you actually need one). You will then write weekly dispatches as your job goes south in a cringe worthy, yet funny-as-hell way. |
Your IQ must be 77 or less.
(at what point between moon and earth do the gravitational fields of these two bodies cancel?) |
You try too hard. (The Lagrangian points are points within the solar system where gravity is balanced out. The Apollo astronauts were the only humans to experience true zero G as they passed through one of these points. All other people in space are in free fall.) |
Googled again? |
No blynch. It's easter. Shouldn't you be praying, instead of trying to be clever? |
Of course I'm praying... and praying for you (whoever you are).
Your right it's easter. Jesus went to the cross to pay the debt for our sins. Wasn't it beautiful? Try to make a personal relationship with Christ and believing Jesus was who he said, following his teachings, and believing in the bible and its principles.It's a love for Christ. |
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blynch
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: UCLA
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:39 am Post subject: Re: Sell this idea to your newspaper back at home |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
You try too hard. (The Lagrangian points are points within the solar system where gravity is balanced out. The Apollo astronauts were the only humans to experience true zero G as they passed through one of these points. All other people in space are in free fall.)
Googled again?
No blynch. It's easter. Shouldn't you be praying, instead of trying to be clever? |
Oh and, you can calculate the distance from the earth's center to the Lagrangian point (if you are interested in)
Let the point where the gravitational fields cancel be at a distance R1, form the earth's center, R2 fromthe moons center. the attraction of the earth at this pt will equal that of the moon's:
G=M1/R1-sqr=M2/R2-sqr
where G is the gravitaional constant, M1 is the mass of the earth, and M2 that of the moon. The only pt in space where the gravitational fields of the earth and the moon cancel, must be collinear to the centers of both bodies since no two vectors cancel if they are not oppositely directed. from the equation above, we now get
R1-sqr/R2-sqr = M1/M2 = (6x10to24 kg)/(7x10to22kg) (?) = 9
Since we already know the distance btwn the centers
R1 + R2 = 400000000 m (?)
From the above equation, R1/R2=9
Sove for R2
R2 = 4x10to8/R2 - R2/R2 = 4x10to8/R2 - 1 => that's it!
Bonne nuit! |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject: Re: Sell this idea to your newspaper back at home |
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Of course I'm praying... and praying for you (whoever you are).
Your right it's easter. Jesus went to the cross to pay the debt for our sins. Wasn't it beautiful? Try to make a personal relationship with Christ and believing Jesus was who he said, following his teachings, and believing in the bible and its principles.It's a love for Christ. |
And how is being a biatch making your relationship with Jebuzzz a closer, more personal one? You're a damn poor christian. Which means, you're typical. Keep witnessing for your faith. And do not pray for me. Your god has no meaning in my life and never will, thanks. |
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