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Toussaint Louverture posted:I felt so good in the Slavic part of Seoul, I was practically dancing in the streets thinking about how I could communicate. All listening into other conversations in the restaurant with a big goofy grin on my face. I used to do this for catharsis, the way (normal) people pound alcohol after work or fire a gun at the range after a business deal turned sour. Be very careful you don't turn into me. Also the bread in the Russian part of Seoul is incredible.
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tirinal posted:Also the bread in the Russian part of Seoul is incredible. Proper Russian rye perhaps? Where's this Russian area?
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I'm not too allergic to the beer here, but then I lived in London for two years prior to coming here where every barman was Jim Morrison and every barlady Kate Moss and the last thing on the roster of poo poo to do was clean the pipes/glasses properly... ie all the beer was manky, flat and rarely satisfying. (give me a Heineken infront of a roaring open fire in Ireland any day...). My hagwon is definitely ran on a shoestring, it would have been nice though for the holiday situation to have been explained more clearly (you can take the odd Monday off bro, enjoy). I thought the contract saying 'five days in Winter/Summer' was good to cover me (as did a few buddies living here who I showed the contract to). Asking if they could be taken as a block of five days didn't even cross my mind, no more than asking 'does night follow day'... Which was a mistake, looking back, any prospective hagwon employees should 100% super totally definitely ask about the hollers before signing a thing. e: my FB feed being full of public school people harping on about their imminent SE Odyssey isn't helping my mood one little bit either. Hopefully cognitive dissonance kicks in full throttle soon. John Sheehy fucked around with this message at Jan 17, 2012 around 15:17 |
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Grand Fromage posted:Proper Russian rye perhaps? Where's this Russian area? Just a little bit to the west of dongdaemun history/culture/whatever the-name-of-dongdaemun-stadium-is-now.
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tismondo posted:Just a little bit to the west of dongdaemun history/culture/whatever the-name-of-dongdaemun-stadium-is-now. I'm not exactly sure what a "history and culture park" i but from looking at the images they have in the subway station, it'll have a big park on top of that thing flat roofed spaceship kind of thing they are building now.
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tismondo posted:Just a little bit to the west of dongdaemun history/culture/whatever the-name-of-dongdaemun-stadium-is-now. Oh okay, that's the area with the restaurants. I will see this bread. Does Hannam Market still exist? The website's gone.
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Grand Fromage posted:Apparently Koreans aren't big fans of feta, it's been marked down more and more every time I go to the store. Just got half a kilo for four bucks. Aika posted:What specifically do you want to know? I'd be up for writing a transsiberian from Korea faq, There are a few places in Itaewon selling Rogue and some other microbrews. You can get them for about 5K-6K each or 30-40K for a six pack. If you really want beer, make friends with the Korea Homebrew community. Grand Fromage posted:Proper Russian rye perhaps? Where's this Russian area? The easiest directions I found, unless they change the exit numbers again, is to go to Dongdaemun History and Culture Park (like everyone says) and go out exit 5 and take a right. You will see a Russian import store to your left and down an alley next to it is Tashkent City. Walk down the sketchy alley and you will come out into an area with a bunch of Mongolian and Russian places. Apparently there is even a Kazakh restaurant somewhere. John Sheehy posted:My hagwon is definitely ran on a shoestring, it would have been nice though for the holiday situation to have been explained more clearly (you can take the odd Monday off bro, enjoy). I thought the contract saying 'five days in Winter/Summer' was good to cover me (as did a few buddies living here who I showed the contract to). Asking if they could be taken as a block of five days didn't even cross my mind, no more than asking 'does night follow day'... Just got back from Bundang and drat that place is nice. I may be trying to find a job there just for the rubberized sidewalks.
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THE LUMMOX posted:Google is failing me. How early do I need to arrive at Incheon for an international flight? Is 2 hours cool or do I need 3? 2 hours should be good, but don't trust the airport shuttle bus, take the express subway. The bus is pretty unreliable, from my experience, whereas the subway shuttle is like something out of Star Trek. When is your flight? There are some exceptionally reasonably priced hotels 2 or 3 stops up from the airport, on the island. Also there's a restaurant that has squid stuffed with sausage, it's. . . Good?
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I may have gone fermentation crazy over here. I have kombucha that I have kept alive since I landed. I have kimchi in the fridge, maesil in the closet, saurkraut on deck, rennet waiting to clear customs, and I just got some kefir grains though that is proving challenging as I have no idea what I am doing. Thinking about ordering some water kefir grains unless anyone knows a person who has some. This is a plea for anyone else who is doing this stuff too, please don't let me be the only one. If anyone wants to start, I am being over run with cultures.
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Hadron Ellison posted:2 hours should be good, but don't trust the airport shuttle bus, take the express subway. The bus is pretty unreliable, from my experience, whereas the subway shuttle is like something out of Star Trek. When is your flight? There are some exceptionally reasonably priced hotels 2 or 3 stops up from the airport, on the island. Ya I'm stressing too because I leave tomorrow to the Philippines and my flight is at 7:30 AM. This would be fine if it wasn't for the fact that I live in the Northeast part of Seoul and I have to leave my place at 4:30 AM. I'm more than likely going to have to take a taxi to Gimpo Airport (I'm gonna be so pissed if the Cab drivers start saying "Oh NO Gimpo, Gimpo NO"), and then catch a shuttle bus the rest of the way to Incheon. e; might just rent a room for the night.... GZA Genius fucked around with this message at Jan 17, 2012 around 23:09 |
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I'm going to Siem Reap, Cambodia tomorrow for 5 days. Any advice or tips from people who've been?
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Cameron posted:I like Korean beer. It's easy to drink and goes down about as easy as a Corona or Tsing Tao. The only reason that I would consider drinking it over anything else is because a 2-liter of it costs 3000. No one will ever agree with me, but while I hate hate hate almost every Korean beer, I will stand by Hite-D as a delicious beer until the day I die of Kimchi induced throat cancer. Regular Hite still sucks something fierce, though. The Bible fucked around with this message at Jan 18, 2012 around 00:14 |
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John Sheehy posted:e: my FB feed being full of public school people harping on about their imminent SE Odyssey isn't helping my mood one little bit either. Hopefully cognitive dissonance kicks in full throttle soon. If it makes you feel better, at least half of them are going to get a nasty surprise when they get a surprise vacation cockblock from their schools because they didn't know to lie about what they are doing over vacation. If you're having more fun than your VP, you suddenly might have some classes to teach.
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Canned Cass is probably the worst beer I've ever had.DontAskKant posted:This is a plea for anyone else who is doing this stuff too, please don't let me be the only one. If anyone wants to start, I am being over run with cultures. You got me beat (kimchi, vinegar, sourdough starter) but sauerkraut man I didn't even think about that  e: you can get drunk on delicious things just as easily sir VVV ee: that's fair I guess Onion Knight fucked around with this message at Jan 18, 2012 around 03:13 |
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edit: ^^ When it comes beer, I'm a like a dog with its dog food. I don't really care what it tastes like Beer gets you drunk. Stop being so high minded about the everymans drink. AmbientParadox fucked around with this message at Jan 18, 2012 around 01:52 |
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DontAskKant posted:Check the use by date, it was produced a while ago. I still talked myself into buying some. However, we will have cheese powers soon. Soon my friend, soon. It's good for a month and a half. I have so much feta. DontAskKant posted:I will gladly show you. I will show all of it to you. Even the cheap little Mongolian place. да, товарищ 
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Camp is over and done with thank god. I thought the New Zealand teacher was gonna hit a smack on one of the kids while they were practising for their performance. He got right in his face and screamed shut up at him and then dragged him out of the class by his jumper,the kid was lying on the ground at one stage.I lost the head when I got downstairs to the teachers room. I was told this kind of stuff happens in public schools. Am I being naive in thinking that it doesn't? I'll be so mad if this guy doesn't get at least a warning for this. The class was full of little brats, but last night they were my little brats doing the haka! 
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I've dragged a misbehaving little poo poo out of class before. I tell them to go in the hall, if they refuse (they usually refuse) I force the issue. I'm not violent about it or anything but once they ignore me telling them to get out, my choices are either to let the kid win or physically remove him.
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GZA Genius posted:Ya I'm stressing too because I leave tomorrow to the Philippines and my flight is at 7:30 AM. This would be fine if it wasn't for the fact that I live in the Northeast part of Seoul and I have to leave my place at 4:30 AM. The hotel I found was something like 60K for one night, which is about what I paid for hotels in the other major cities. Would the express train or subway even be running that early? I didn't spend much time in Seoul.
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drat, I paid 110 for mine.
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Christ, I'm paying 108 for seven days.
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Korean teachers might do that but foreign teachers definitely do not. If that kid tells his mum the NZ guy will be losing his job at the VERY minimum. I would make a fuss about it. Sounds like he shouldn't be around children.
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Grand Fromage posted:Christ, I'm paying 108 for seven days. Well, it might have been 2 nights, I'm a little hazy on the details of last weekend. And we were in yeoksam
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Maybe I don't understand exactly what NZ guy was doing. I've grabbed a kid's arm and taken him out to stand in the hallway, put him back in his seat, or held it still so I could take the phone out of his hand after refusing to hand it over and me being tired of it holding up the class. I've also grabbed them and held them still to stop them from beating each other, since I was told it was my responsibility to make sure they don't hurt each other. And the fistfights in the middle of class are disruptive. Should I not be doing this? And it's always a boy. I hate boys. So much. Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at Jan 18, 2012 around 06:39 |
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Jeoh posted:I took the express train, which doesn't stop anywhere else. It's also worth only noting that it makes about 8 minutes or so in the difference so it's hardly worth the price unless you're really pressed for time. I'm flying out tomorrow at midnight and arriving to Seoul Station at 7.30-ish. A friend arrived at Incheon Airport today 25 minutes before his flight and still made it.
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Edit: Nevermind. Bad midweek post.
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I once dragged a student out of class. It was a class of about 40 students and I warned them the next person I caught throwing paper was getting kicked out. Then he threw a crumpled up ball of paper. I dragged him to the receptionist area and went back to class. Then he snuck back into my class. So I dragged him out again and locked the door. I didn't get disciplined at all, or even told not to do that. I was told to bring them to the head teacher next time.
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You can get around the fact that you cant discipline them like a Korean teacher by just sending them to one.
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Staying at a hostel tonight on the Incheon island for 20k. No way in hell I wanted to wake up at 3:30AM tomorrow.
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On Monday, I arrived 30 minutes before my flight to Hong Kong. Check-in and security is so efficient that I had 10 minutes before boarding. Why can't the rest of Korea be as awesome as that airport? By the way, going from Busan to Hong Kong is like going from Newark to NYC. This place rocks. Is it possible to leapfrog from a Korean teaching gig to one in Hong Kong?
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Andro posted:By the way, going from Busan to Hong Kong is like going from Newark to NYC. This place rocks. Is it possible to leapfrog from a Korean teaching gig to one in Hong Kong? Grass is always greener etc. Incheon Airport rocks. The only lovely thing is that I just assumed there would be an international ATM on the other side of security but there isn't. I emptied my Korean account to pay for this trip so I'm stuck here for two hours with no way to get money. Oh welp~
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frozenpeas posted:Korean teachers might do that but foreign teachers definitely do not. I did, I was so angry and shocked that I was nearly crying, then halfway through telling my coordinator I started loosing the head. I hope he looses his job here because he's an utter dick, I've given him several chances to redeem himself but he's just a wanker. Grand Fromage posted:Maybe I don't understand exactly what NZ guy was doing. I've grabbed a kid's arm and taken him out to stand in the hallway, put him back in his seat, or held it still so I could take the phone out of his hand after refusing to hand it over and me being tired of it holding up the class. I've also grabbed them and held them still to stop them from beating each other, since I was told it was my responsibility to make sure they don't hurt each other. And the fistfights in the middle of class are disruptive. Should I not be doing this? I stop them fighting, sometimes I grab their hands to lift them off the floor and they resist. But, I would never scream at a child in such a way as he did. If I get annoyed I usually start clapping or rap a marker on the table or raise my voice, I would never scream at the children. Here's what happened exactly. I was sitting at the top of the class, another teacher that we had especially for camp was sitting behind me. The kids each had a little line to say to introduce their performance which was on New Zealand. They were chattering away, they were all excited and every so often someone wouldn't recognise a word. (a few times when the bad readers made a mistake this guy made them do 10 push ups as punishment?  ) I would tell them the word and have them repeat the sentence? I don't see punishment as a way of learning at all. Brian was the kid that got in trouble. He shouted above the others and I asked them all to be quiet for practise. NZ teacher puts his face in front of his and screams SHUT UPPPPP! at the top of his lungs. Que horrible scared silence. I say the teachers name in a pissed off tone, about to loose the head but I just kept quiet because I don't want to argue in front of the kids. Brian laughs I think it was nervous and the teacher grabs the child by his jumper at the chest and drags him to the door (during this he trips and all but the teacher still drags him out and gives him a time out outside the door) Then after about 5 minutes he goes out and drags the kid in by the jumper and pushes him into the seat. After class he came over to me and said "I really have to stop doing that" I looked at him and said "yeah you really have to" and I stormed down to the principals office. I asked the other teacher, do you think that's right? Her reply was that in public schools they would have to deal with alot worse... If someone did that to one of my nephews or my niece there would be absolute ructions, no person not even a parent should treat a child like that. The coordinator said that "it is a very stressful time for all teachers I will speak to the kids and speak to NZ teacher seperately but I will have to have a meeting with you and NZ teacher after camp" In other news I just watched a documentary "Inside North Korea" I really really really want to go North now. Absolutely fantastic piece of work. The other teachers think I am bat poo poo crazy for wanting to go.
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In a public school that poo poo would definitely not happen. Not to little kids. It can get bad in middle or high school, but I've never heard of something like that. Especially for no reason to a little kid. That guy needs to get fired.
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Hey~ New thread. Excellent. Anyone else hooked on PC bangs? I've been frequenting them since the new year and I can't stop myself from going... The air is horrible, the places are usually death traps in the event of a fire, there is smoke everywhere but it's just so drat addicting to be there with a few friends playing games and having food delivered to you as you sit there playing ridiculous shoot em up FPS and grindfest MMORPGs. And the people are so depressingly interesting! Just this last few weeks I've met a poo poo ton of unemployeed Korean losers who live there for 10 hours at a time playing Aion or some poo poo like that. One dude was a "pro" gamer who sells items online? And degenerate online gamblers. In the PC bang near me there is actually a group of gamblers who have formed teams to gamble online together and pool together their winnings. They're like a little nerdy mafia of poor hygene and an aura of mountain dewy glow. Plus last weekend while I was playing this Call of Duty rip off called Special Forces 2, a homelessman sat down next to me and heckled me for nearly an hour. "Why do you keep dying?" "Don't go in there again, you'll get shot." "I used to be in the special forces in the army and these guns aren't realistic at all." "Vietnam was hell..." You can't get entertainment and comradery like that anywhere else for 1200won an hour. my kakaotalk is: nhojoow I'll post again provided I haven't killed myself in a marathon gold mining quest. I'm *this* close to being asked to join a clan! horray!
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I can't get a nexon account to work. So I'll forever be a pcbang outsider.
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| # ? Jan 18, 2012 10:08 |
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SqueakyDuck posted:I started loosing the head.
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Do you need anything to get into a PCbang or can I just walk in as a tourist and start getting slaughtered by Koreans at any game I want to play?
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I think it's just a different form of "lost my head" or "lost my cool."
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superm0nk posted:Is this some Irish expression I'm unaware of? I guess, I can usually follow but occasionally squeaky or sheehy post something so full of slang I can barely understand what's going on. :ireland: That does sound excessive. I try to limit my screaming to once a month at most so it retains effectiveness, and only at whole classes. When I'm dealing with one kid I go into the ice quiet mode. The behavior at my school is incredibly awful, I often feel more like a jewkeeper than a teacher. Even after a year of this I still can't fathom how kids behave this way, I've never seen anything like it.
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Grand Fromage posted:The behavior at my school is incredibly awful, I often feel more like a jewkeeper than a teacher. Even after a year of this I still can't fathom how kids behave this way, I've never seen anything like it. How many Jews can you keep at one time?
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