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tanklor1
Joined: 13 Jun 2006
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 Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:40 am Post subject: You know that you're an English teacher when.... |
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I thought that I'd reverse the roles a bit from the "You know that you're Korean when" thread.
1. You spell 'Delicious" more times in a week than you've ever said it in your life.
2. Everyone you know is a teacher reguardless of nationality. Christ, everyone I know here is a treacher. I just know that from now on one of my opening lines is going to be. "So, Where do you teach?"
3. You take a folder to the bank.
4. You have a loan of at least one book from another teacher.
5. You find yourself looking up Korean songs that you've heard on the radio, without actually knowing what the songs are called or who sings them.
6. You wonder why Kimbop isn't readily available in the rest of the world. (I'm honestly going to miss that food)
7. You been on a vacation to Bali. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:59 am Post subject: |
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| Your first 2 are pretty good, but the other 5 don't make sense. |
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oneofthesarahs
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Location: Sacheon City
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:18 am Post subject: |
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You use exaggerated hand motions to explain anything, even when not talking to students.
You've received socks from a student's mother and think nothing of it.
You know the Korean words for "adjective," "adverb," "eraser," and "be quiet," but still have trouble explaining what you want in a bank. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| you know you're an english teacher when you're boring? |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:23 am Post subject: |
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When you start silly topics on Dave's  |
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tanklor1
Joined: 13 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
| When you start silly topics on Dave's |
When you have dave's listed as a bookmark |
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Mr. BlackCat
Joined: 30 Nov 2005
Location: Insert witty remark HERE
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:34 am Post subject: |
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I don't think this is a 'teacher thing' as much as a living in a Korea thing:
You think every piece of meat should be cut up and picked at by dinner guests.
Seriously, I love g/kalbi. I had a hard time back in Canada not grabbing the scissors and cutting up that pork chop and sharing with friends over shots of booze. Sure, it's just BBQ, but the ambience! Dismiss and complain at will, but nothing beats a g/kalbi dinner. If that's all Korea has to offer the world (and it's not), then they deserve superpower status. |
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Damulgun
Joined: 11 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:41 am Post subject: |
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You are a English teacher in Korea when you whine daily on Dave's ESl cafe.  |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:54 am Post subject: |
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| oneofthesarahs wrote: |
You use exaggerated hand motions to explain anything, even when not talking to students.
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Yes, but older Italians do that-and I am guessing you've never been to Montreal? |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| Mr. BlackCat wrote: |
Seriously, I love g/kalbi. I had a hard time back in Canada not grabbing the scissors and cutting up that pork chop and sharing with friends over shots of booze. Sure, it's just BBQ, but the ambience! Dismiss and complain at will, but nothing beats a g/kalbi dinner. If that's all Korea has to offer the world (and it's not), then they deserve superpower status. |
Canada - that explains it all - you guys wouldn't know what a real barbecue is in that tundra of yours if the gods gave you decent weather for just one day I guess.
Canada.
Canada. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:40 am Post subject: Re: You know that you're an English teacher when.... |
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| 1. You spell 'Delicious" more times in a week than you've ever said it in your life. |
I never have done this. And you should stop. get the students to spell the word! Sound it out, slowly if have to. "Guess!" (Vowels are the hardest so wiggle fingers to indicate when it's an "AEIO or U" touching each finger to represent each letter: thumb a, forefinger e... before long their ability to connect sound with letters, their spelling and listening skills, will improve greatly.)
Teachers should not spell words in class. It is a waste of time and of very limited educational value. |
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The Perfect Cup of Coffee
Joined: 17 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Damulgun wrote: |
| You are a English teacher in Korea when you whine daily on Dave's ESl cafe. |
End of thread. Let's stop before we embarrass ourselves any further. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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| (Not just English teachers) You find yourself carrying around a red pen and correcting people's grammar/spelling in shop windows. |
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Matman
Joined: 02 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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| You think it's normal behaviour for a child to try to stick his/her finger up your bum. |
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riley
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: where creditors can find me
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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| You're surprised when you talk to another foriegner and realize that they aren't teachers. |
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