THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: GilloD on June 22, 2010, 10:11:44 AM
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For real. These people are the biggest frauds around. Every fucking single thing is a dog and pony show. No one actually does anything or says anything honestly for fear of pissing somebody off. They're always busy figuring out ways to fucking lie to each other to keep everyone happy. It's completely and utterly bizarre. I'm exhausted with it.
That said, I just resigned for year 2 because all my lessons are done and I can save mad bank ad then go fuck around for 2 or 3 years and never come back.
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I'm kinda getting there too, and I'm only 4 months deep.
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Can't wait to see what Gillo does next. I'm voting, teaching for a small parish in Siberia.
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I kind of feel bad for those korean kids who are being taught in such a superficial environment. You should start your own school and raise these kids right GilloD.
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I'm feeling bad for GilloD, resigned to spending an even longer time in such a frustrating environment.
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I kind of feel bad for those korean kids who are being taught in such a superficial environment. You should start your own school and raise these kids right GilloD.
It's like learning French in elementary school in western Canada.
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:uguu
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Want to have it rough? Go to North Korea.
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I kind of feel bad for those korean kids who are being taught in such a superficial environment. You should start your own school and raise these kids right GilloD.
It's like learning French in elementary school in western Canada.
Except instead of learning French you learn how to jar peanut butter :fbm
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Welcome to Japan.
Oh wait.
At least you have Gee gee gee gee baby baby baby gee gee gee gee baby baby baby.
And Oppai oppai tell me tell me down down down.
South Korea really doesn't sound very different from Japan from all these threads. :lol
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I kind of feel bad for those korean kids who are being taught in such a superficial environment. You should start your own school and raise these kids right GilloD.
It's like learning French in elementary school in western Canada.
Except instead of learning how to mock people -- elementary French teachers -- who live a sham life totally devoid of purpose, you lean how to handle GilloD silently crying by himself while staring into his desk :fbm
fixed
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so why don't you pretend too?
what's wrong with pretending?
what's wrong with it? :fbm
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Samsung is the only good thing about Korea.
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Go to Japan and get your uguu on
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Go attend some live Starcraft matches before Blizzard dismantles the pro scene
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Bummer, dude. Here's something to help you deal:
[youtube=560,345]1JPULswVojE[/youtube]
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Here's whats making me crazy right now: There's a big English speaking competition next week. District-wide. They asked if I'd help and I said sure. Never mind the fact that the woman in charge of the English Education Office doesn't speak a word of English, she wants to have this competition. Okay!
So we hold try outs and our best and brightest come and we pick for 2 divisions: A 'Song & Chant' group and an essay group. The essay kid, Jun, is super smart and works incredibly hard. He's not fluent, his English is kind of lousy, but he works harder than anyone else I've seen in this god damn school. If I pass him in the hallway I see him reading his essay and then practicing. He's good!
So he wrote this kind of firey essay about a territory dispute with Japan that was really informative, clever and balanced. I work with him for about a week on it and he's really coming along. Then my co-teachers get involved. They tell him- to his face- that his topic is boring and he needs a new essay. I fight them on it (Japanese colonialism is a hell of a topic for a 5th grader), but they make him change.
He writes an essay of Marie Curie. It's not as good, but I help him get in shape. I basically refuse to do any serious re-writes on it. It's his essay,r ight? I correct grammar and make suggestions and point out weird English, but I'm not like rewriting whole chunks. Yesterday my co-teacher comes in and she's like re-written his whole essay in busted ass, suck-shit English (Misses Curie was a safty coroner. she dids many of things to helps people). She tells both of us that none of the judges really speak English and they don't give a fuck if he wrote it or not. He just has to look like a pro and said some words confidently.
That's Korea in a nut shell. No one gives a fuck if you're actually good or not good at whatever, they just want a fucking show. The 'Song & Chant' division still can't sing their song right (Rets go swimming in da rake!), but they've been practicing their dance until NINE FUCKING PM every night because that's all the judges can understand.
Suicide is the THIRD leading killer in Korea. Is it any wonder?
Ughfdgdfgfdshgfdhfsdhgfsdh
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Yeah Asian cultures can be extremely annoying like that. Everything is taken at face value - there is no honesty or integrity. It makes for an interesting study though.
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South Korea really doesn't sound very different from Japan from all these threads. :lol
The two are very close, but there are certain key differences.
- Korean porn is even worse than Japanese porn
- Japanese people don't eat dogs
- You can buy games in Japan
- Green Shinobi
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Fuck, Korea would break me.
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Yeah Asian cultures can be extremely annoying like that. Everything is taken at face value - there is no honesty or integrity. It makes for an interesting study though.
Seems like modern life more like it.
Prole buy us an island so we can start anew.
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Yeah Asian cultures can be extremely annoying like that. Everything is taken at face value - there is no honesty or integrity. It makes for an interesting study though.
Seems like modern life more like it.
Prole buy us an island so we can start anew.
"My auntie told me not to run," he explained, "on account of my asthma."
"Ass-mar?"
"That's right. Can't catch my breath. I was the only boy in our school what had asthma," said the fat boy with a touch of pride. "And I've been wearing specs since I was three."
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On this island, I call the conch.
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I am looking forward to Saturday though. Last SK World Cup match I went to at Seoul City Hall ended with me getting shit faced off free beer Koreans kept passing me.
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- Japanese people don't eat dogs
They probably do but just raw. :derp
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On this island, I call the conch.
(http://i50.tinypic.com/nec3et.jpg)
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On this island, I call the conch.
Sucks to your ass-mar.
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This country is awful. These people are just absolutely terrible to each other. They turn every fucking thing into a fight and claw each other's eyes out over the pennies. I'm trying to take my contract-mandated vacation and they keep trying to fuck me out of it so I can be just as miserable and as fucked up and as heartless and angry and disgusted as they are.
Good riddance. I'm staring at the contract right now having a serious fucking debate about whether or not to sign it.
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It's good you've got your wife with you. I guess you can survive it better if she's there with you.
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She's worse than I am, haha.
Our latest problem is with vacation. Everyone ha dan agreement and now that it's time to honor it they're trying to fuck us every which way possible.
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me: What the fuck. One of the Korean teachers is trying to get the kids to sing Baby Got Back
She's like "Yes it is a big song right? Baby came back?"
Justin: haha
not quite
might want to explain that to her
Sent at 1:59 PM on Wednesday
me: Nah
She's olaying some like
Mean ass reggaeton thing
And she's blasting this song thats like EVERY MOTHAFUCKA BOUNCE and all the kids are jumping around to it.
Justin: haha
does she know what it is saying
me: No. She's teaching them to dance for the English competition since the judges don't speak English
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Man I feel sorry for that essay kid. He must feel crushed to be told to just fuck off after putting in a bunch of effort to actually learn the language.
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GilloD was this the song?
[youtube=560,345]PiE3AGdD9_g[/youtube]
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Man I feel sorry for that essay kid. He must feel crushed to be told to just fuck off after putting in a bunch of effort to actually learn the language.
Yeah, I wouldn't have stood for that. The school putting their own agenda in front of the boy's is really shitty.
I'd have pushed over a bookcase or two if I were you, GilloD.
But thats how these kids grow up. And then they get older and they start fucking each other over and shit to do the same thing. My wife had a bunch of her high school kids over for dinner one day and one of them was telling us how their Social Studies lesson that week had been on how you needed to make a lot of money or no one would ever respect you.
Her co-teacher is a homeroom rep, she she's at school until 10 and she gets there at 7. She just had a baby. She literally sees her kid maybe an hour or two a day, maybe. One of my co-teachers had to bring in her kid one day and at the end she was crying and I was like "Dude, what's up?" and she was telling me how her kid was begging to come in the next day because he never gets to see her.
It's just this ultra-capitalist, ugly, fraudulent show.
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But how?
[youtube=560,345]U7mPqycQ0tQ[/youtube]
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Gillo, I don't know how you encounter half the shit you do. I spend all day at my desk listening to music and playing flash games.
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Haha. Dude, I don't know how you have time. I jave 29 class hours every week and only one of my co-teachers speaks any English. And she's so super busy she barely ever shows up.
fuuu. Although I did spend the last 40 minutes reading.
They moved my afterschool class (1st graders, who speak 0 English, with no co-teacher) to a room with no computer or CD player. And the copier broke. And they yelled at me and said I wasn't teaching enough. I pretty much lost it on them this morning. I was like "What? Your GREAT idea to stick a bunch of 5 year olds who dont speak English in a room with a guy who doesn't speak English isn't panning out? That idea didn't work? Wow. Really wow, it sounded great. Come to that class and see if you can get them to pay attention for 1 minute without using Korean. Try it." and they said "Oh, but you must understand" which is what they always say when something mindbendingly fucked up occurs.
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What you must understand, GilloD, is that English or no English YOU ARE CHEAPER THAN DAY CARE.
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Here's some contrast Gillo: I just finished my first extra-classroom task of the day (make 30 copies of a worksheet) and returned to the office to find everyone eating pizza.
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wasn't your last job horrible as well? maybe it's not Korea, maybe it's you? like you have to stand up for yourself more or something, or the same kinds of things will happen to you over and over again. just a thought?
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GilloD, was the peanut butter you were selling at your last job good?
I can answer that, as I ordered some. It's fucking DELICIOUS.
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Cinnamon Raisin Swirl :drool
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GilloD, was the peanut butter you were selling at your last job good?
I can answer that, as I ordered some. It's fucking DELICIOUS.
QFMFT
:bow GilloD :bow2
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But how?
[youtube=560,345]U7mPqycQ0tQ[/youtube]
Fuck. I've refrained from listening to it but curiosity got the better of me. Fuck.
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But how?
:poop[youtube=560,345]U7mPqycQ0tQ[/youtube]:poop
Fuck. I've refrained from listening to it but curiosity got the better of me. Fuck.
It's been stuck in my head all day cause of this thread, thanks guys.
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GilloD play that song in your class and everything will be better.
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Today I came in and the projector, computer and copy machine were all busted. No one bothered to tell me yesterday. Class was hilarious! That was some stone age shit.
Anyway, had kind of a fight with my Vice Principal, but I got my vacation days.
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lol when I first read your post I thought you meant resigned as in you're sensibly leaving Korea after a year of utter hell. Now I get it. You like the pain.
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last week they broke my projector and did not tell me and i did not receive my paycheck nor cake but was given some pesticide to spray for roaches
:bow GilloD :bow2
Does the crap jobs so we don't have to.
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I really don't think it's the jobs. :(
There may be some truth to this, but I also seem to end up in goofy situations through no fault of my own.
Anyway, everything is all cleared up. I'm still kind of sick of this country, but I feel better. I've been enormously blessed in a million ways and it's really easy to forget them when you feel like the walls are closing in. Thanks for the vent-space, anyway