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I had a very similar experience. Two parents showed up, saw my diligence with how sick I was, and left after a few minutes. Sunday is gumbo day! Gumbo day! Gumbo day! 
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Crab. Crab never changes...
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| # ? Feb 26, 2012 07:11 |
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I'm back. Why am I back. Thailand was a magical drunken escapade and Kauai was a tropical paradise. Now it's -7 or some such bullshit.
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| # ? Feb 26, 2012 10:14 |
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Spent some time in Itaewon over the weekend and stopped by Smokey Saloon. Their burgers are legit if anyone is, like I was, burgin' hard. In a room full of Koreans eating with forks and knives my friends and I ate our burgers with our hands. Like god damned Americans.  Also, Kant (and whoever else is cooking Korean or wants to learn how) I've been getting a lot of mileage out of http://www.maangchi.com/recipes/ It's kind of weirdly written and bounces all over the place, but I've been trying to knock out a dish and a thing of banchan or two every week and I'm learning a lot so far. Seafood stuff specifically is here: http://www.maangchi.com/recipes/seafood and she more often than not has a picture of the fish raw so you know what to look for at the market.
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| # ? Feb 26, 2012 13:44 |
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 Holding down a little bit of New Orleans on this peninsula.
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| # ? Feb 26, 2012 13:49 |
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Onion Knight posted:Spent some time in Itaewon over the weekend and stopped by Smokey Saloon. Their burgers are legit if anyone is, like I was, burgin' hard. I felt the same way when my friends and I went to go get some pizza. It's meant to be eaten with your hands damnit.
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| # ? Feb 26, 2012 14:36 |
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Italians eat it with knife and fork only because they don't slice their pizza.
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| # ? Feb 26, 2012 17:26 |
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Onion Knight posted:Spent some time in Itaewon over the weekend and stopped by Smokey Saloon. Their burgers are legit Don't get me wrong, I'd never eat a burger with knife and fork back home. But burgers back home are also designed and plated with hand-held eating in mind. Smokey Saloon throws all the rules out the window and just gives you the leaning tower of awesome leaky juice burger.
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| # ? Feb 27, 2012 00:18 |
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My school is a construction zone. There are giant hunks of concrete everywhere and no ceilings and all of the classrooms are in disarray school starts friday.
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| # ? Feb 27, 2012 01:19 |
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tismondo posted:How the hell did you eat it with your hands though? Years of practice. Nah, I didn't go for the double egg and hashbrowns flagship one, so mine was a little more conservative. You're absolutely right in that the bottom got way soggy way fast, but by then I was committed. Korean language question incoming: I'm ordering some stuff off of gmarket but want it delivered to my place after 6pm. How wrong am I if I add this to the delivery comments box? 6 시이후에 배달해주세요 e: Oh well. Okay. School again it is then. VVV Onion Knight fucked around with this message at Feb 27, 2012 around 02:21 |
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Onion Knight posted:Years of practice. Doesn't matter, they're going to do whatever they want with it, anyway.
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| # ? Feb 27, 2012 01:54 |
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You're going to end up with a phone call from a busy and stressed driver who speaks 0 English. I learned my lesson the first few times and now I just get it delivered to my school office instead of making my Korean friends deal with it for me.
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| # ? Feb 27, 2012 02:19 |
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THE LUMMOX posted:You're going to end up with a phone call from a busy and stressed driver who speaks 0 English. It's much easier to get it delivered to the school. I had a pile of stuff waiting for me when I showed up today, much easier than trying to get it shipped to a house you're rarely at.
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| # ? Feb 27, 2012 02:49 |
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Yeah, just always get it sent to your school. I ordered a Yonsei book [it's all in Korean! gently caress!] and it came on Saturday. The guy called me 2-3 times asking for directions. I tried what little I could say on the first and second calls, and just ignored the third call. It worked out in the end though, because I had a package waiting for me when I came in this morning.
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http://blog.danawa.com/prod/?prod_c...rd=magic%20oven We just bought one of these. I'm not sure if I can recommend it yet, but it seems to have roasted an entire chicken in 30 mins. I'm rather impressed. I'll recommend it properly later if I haven't died of food poisoning. Edit : Hmmm, the chicken was amazing, but I think we should have taken the veg out and cooked them while the chicken was standing. I'd say they're worth getting if you're here for more than a year. frozenpeas fucked around with this message at Feb 27, 2012 around 09:29 |
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Speaking of buying things has anybody bought a good sofa-bed they would recommend? Like something really good that will fit a guy who is 190cm and would work to sleep on every day. Futon style would be best. I bought one on the cheap and it sucks, so I'm willing to drop 200-300k on something. My place is tiny so a sofa bed really helps. I'm asking beforehand because beds can be pretty deceptive on first lay. Also a lot of furniture here breaks really quickly.
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The Gay Bean posted:Speaking of buying things has anybody bought a good sofa-bed they would recommend? Like something really good that will fit a guy who is 190cm and would work to sleep on every day. Futon style would be best. I bought one on the cheap and it sucks, so I'm willing to drop 200-300k on something. My place is tiny so a sofa bed really helps. I need to know this as well. The previous previous teacher apparently picked this 70s grandma couch off the side of the street and I will not abide.
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| # ? Feb 27, 2012 10:45 |
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70s grandma couch sounds awesome. Is it covered in plastic wrap?
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| # ? Feb 27, 2012 10:47 |
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Friend's book is out on kindle, only $2! Or $1 with prime! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...p_p-Nrpb0K66ARR edit: "[6:32:18 PM] Isaac: this book is just the total nightmare of every korean xenophobe that thinks all foreigners should just gtfo" Dr. Eat fucked around with this message at Feb 27, 2012 around 11:36 |
| # ? Feb 27, 2012 11:20 |
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Dr. Eat posted:Friend's book is out on kindle, only $2! Or $1 with prime! Any chance of a physical (paperback) book? It sounds pretty great.
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| # ? Feb 27, 2012 11:43 |
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Jeoh posted:Any chance of a physical (paperback) book? It sounds pretty great.
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| # ? Feb 27, 2012 12:21 |
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I'm apparently in on the Starcraft thing. Where and how do I reserve?
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| # ? Feb 27, 2012 12:24 |
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Toussaint Louverture posted:I'm apparently in on the Starcraft thing. Where and how do I reserve? http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3468509
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Dr. Eat posted:Friend's book is out on kindle, only $2! Or $1 with prime!
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| # ? Feb 27, 2012 12:35 |
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Just got back from my day long orientation/going out drinking with my new coworkers at my uni job. It was actually a day full of really useful information. There are about 30 native English teachers in our department, and for the most part they all seem pretty dedicated and enthusiastic teachers. It's nice to actually be around people that really enjoy teaching and want to collaboratively work together to create lessons and activities. It was also comforting to talk to several people that had worked at this university that left to work at other universities in Korea, but then came back because they missed it here. And even others that have been here for 5 to 8 years and still love the job. Even in their drunken state tonight they talked a lot about how much they liked teaching here much better than other places. From initial impressions it looks like this will be a pretty nice job. My bosses actually encouraged us to go drinking with our conversational students. And apparently during the spring festival all classes are canceled and the whole campus turns into a giant drunken party for 3 days. During the festival we will be having drunken movie viewings and we will possibly host a jello shot tent for our students. I think I have found the awesome side of teaching in Korea.
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MonkeyBrains posted:Just got back from my day long orientation/going out drinking with my new coworkers at my uni job. It was actually a day full of really useful information. There are about 30 native English teachers in our department, and for the most part they all seem pretty dedicated and enthusiastic teachers. It's nice to actually be around people that really enjoy teaching and want to collaboratively work together to create lessons and activities. It was also comforting to talk to several people that had worked at this university that left to work at other universities in Korea, but then came back because they missed it here. And even others that have been here for 5 to 8 years and still love the job. Even in their drunken state tonight they talked a lot about how much they liked teaching here much better than other places. From initial impressions it looks like this will be a pretty nice job.
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TreFitty posted:Why would he do this to us? It's a work of (mostly) fiction anyway; he's not some Korean nationalist trying to get people fired. He just wants to entertain people and sell books. It's not his intent to gently caress anyone over and you guys already have to deal with FBI checks/hagwons banning you from Itaewon + Hongdae.
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MonkeyBrains posted:Just got back from my day long orientation/going out drinking with my new coworkers at my uni job. It was actually a day full of really useful information. There are about 30 native English teachers in our department, and for the most part they all seem pretty dedicated and enthusiastic teachers. It's nice to actually be around people that really enjoy teaching and want to collaboratively work together to create lessons and activities. It was also comforting to talk to several people that had worked at this university that left to work at other universities in Korea, but then came back because they missed it here. And even others that have been here for 5 to 8 years and still love the job. Even in their drunken state tonight they talked a lot about how much they liked teaching here much better than other places. From initial impressions it looks like this will be a pretty nice job. Can I find a way to sneak into this?
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kimcicle posted:Can I find a way to sneak into this? I work at Kyungnam University in Masan. As far as I understand they are fully staffed now, but keep an eye open on Dave's ESL Korea job postings for their hiring posts. That is where I saw the opening. In the future if I hear they are going to hire more teachers I will definitely give you guys a heads up. That is as long as it turns out to be a decent job. If it all turns to poo poo I am sure you guys will see me complaints/rants on here.
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kimcicle posted:Can I find a way to sneak into this?
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My friend with only a BA from a midlevel university in the US did a cheap online teaching certificate + a year with SMOE and squeezed his way into a University job. He laid a wide net and wasn't picky about location, but still ended up getting a position in Suwon.
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MonkeyBrains posted:I work at Kyungnam University in Masan. As far as I understand they are fully staffed now, but keep an eye open on Dave's ESL Korea job postings for their hiring posts. That is where I saw the opening. In the future if I hear they are going to hire more teachers I will definitely give you guys a heads up. That is as long as it turns out to be a decent job. If it all turns to poo poo I am sure you guys will see me complaints/rants on here. Actually I meant more like sneak in as a student and watch films and drink. 
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kimcicle posted:Actually I meant more like sneak in as a student and watch films and drink. This is honestly the better of options.
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kimcicle posted:Actually I meant more like sneak in as a student and watch films and drink. Haha, sure. Might not be able to pass as a student, but you can come and be my "special guest speaker" aka friend that yells poo poo at the screen. We can make it into a MST3K/Rifftrax lesson.
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tismondo posted:My friend with only a BA from a midlevel university in the US did a cheap online teaching certificate + a year with SMOE and squeezed his way into a University job. -Small program: will take anyone -Big program: will take anyone (the beginning of this is when I came in the Korea timeline) -Downsizing: can be a little choosy (seems to me where we are now) -Stable and small: ridiculous qualifications required for almost every decent job I'd say we will get to the last one in ~5-10 years. edit: There's also no way in hell I'm investing any time/money in to getting more English teaching qualifications....especially since I don't teach English anymore (and I'm increasingly thankful for that every day). I am, however, quite jealous of my friend married to a Korean girl that works 7 months out of the year, 4 days per week, 4 hours per day, though. His pay is less than an EPIK'er, but he can more than make up for it in his off time if he wanted to (not sure if he does or not). TreFitty fucked around with this message at Feb 27, 2012 around 14:41 |
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TreFitty posted:Yep, I know a lot of people that have been able to get University jobs with not quite the right qualifications. I just question the stability of that long term. Every country that opens an ESL/EFL program like this seems to go through the same motions: Good lord, what job does he have?
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| # ? Feb 27, 2012 16:02 |
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One of my friends was working at a university here, she had eight hours of class a week. No office hours. Three million for 32 hours of work per month, and like two and a half months paid vacation. I want one of those jobs, but I also almost don't want one because that would be very, very difficult to leave and move on from.
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The Bible posted:Good lord, what job does he have?
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| # ? Feb 27, 2012 18:07 |
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So I saw this video on the monitors in Sinchon Station the other day. That was pretty awesome.
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I love the Seoul Metro transfer song, so much better than the out of place classical music followed by "5678 Jihacheol" song that you hear on the SMRT trains. Also he looks like Daniel Craig in that video.
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