Also, who decided that 화 should be romanised as wha? Ewha U, Hanwha etc...
Quote from: donuts81 on December 04, 2015, 02:04:25 pmQuote from: kevinvrich on December 04, 2015, 01:58:53 pmI want to go drink my face off tonight. My girlfriend wants me to stay in, wake up early, and help her and her family make kimchi Saturday morning. If only I could clone myself into two people. It is hard having a sweet girlfriend. I just want to thug. How long have you been dating? That seems like an extreme commitment to make.Hey man, to each his/her own. It sounds like OP doesn't mind the idea of making kimchi with his gf's family in the morning at all, so who are you to scoff at it as extreme or imply the gf is demanding? Maybe he already knows her family, they get along well, and he's interested in spending time with them and having the cultural experience. It might just be bad timing with his current mood and desire to drink on a Friday.
Quote from: kevinvrich on December 04, 2015, 01:58:53 pmI want to go drink my face off tonight. My girlfriend wants me to stay in, wake up early, and help her and her family make kimchi Saturday morning. If only I could clone myself into two people. It is hard having a sweet girlfriend. I just want to thug. How long have you been dating? That seems like an extreme commitment to make.
I want to go drink my face off tonight. My girlfriend wants me to stay in, wake up early, and help her and her family make kimchi Saturday morning. If only I could clone myself into two people. It is hard having a sweet girlfriend. I just want to thug.
Today one of my third grade middle schoolers was getting uppity, I decided to shut that sh*z down. I'm a very relaxed teacher who laughs a lot with my kids and endures more than is necessary in terms of bad behaviour.So I grabbed his chair and pulled it, with him in it, to the back of the class. I dragged his desk over and the two classroom bins, heaped to overflowing. I put on in front of him and one beside him. He'd been talking non-stop to his friend so I point to the bins. These are your new friends, you can talk to them. My class loved that and I felt happy at my creative use of minimal verbal aggression.
Quote from: Zealot_Hill on December 11, 2015, 11:06:48 amToday one of my third grade middle schoolers was getting uppity, I decided to shut that sh*z down. I'm a very relaxed teacher who laughs a lot with my kids and endures more than is necessary in terms of bad behaviour.So I grabbed his chair and pulled it, with him in it, to the back of the class. I dragged his desk over and the two classroom bins, heaped to overflowing. I put on in front of him and one beside him. He'd been talking non-stop to his friend so I point to the bins. These are your new friends, you can talk to them. My class loved that and I felt happy at my creative use of minimal verbal aggression.This is what happens when corporal punishment gets banned. Bring back the belt, dammit! It was good enough for my grandfather and he drank whiskey in the pub every day and beat my father so clearly it worked.More seriously: good job! I like hearing about creative punishments.I remember once, I had this nightmare of a class at this small hagwon. The kind of 12-year-olds that really know when they got you by the balls. Anyway, some some girl said "Teacher! Filthy pig!" which took me by surprise. Impulsively, I grabbed her pencil case, dumped all the contents on the floor at the front of the class and yelled "PICK IT UP!" She looked rather shocked but she sheepishly did as she was told and wasn't an issue the rest of class so I guess my instincts were right.I was pretty annoyed but also kind of impressed that she knew the word "filthy".
Quote from: CO2 on December 11, 2015, 11:57:19 amAlso, who decided that 화 should be romanised as wha? Ewha U, Hanwha etc...If you follow the simple rules it is "hoa". How else would you pronounce it?
My main CT is an ajeosshi who is very short in stature--the students give him a lot of flack for it, especially when I'm around (I'm 6ft/184cm). He takes it fairly well and has a good relationship with them, but today when he and I were proctoring the last exam together, this one particularly smart-mouthed student went, "Nomadicmadda Teacher! XXXX Teacher students say is very ugly!"It's times like these I wish I spoke a bit more Korean, or spoke it fluidly enough to react faster. I wish I could have said, "Hey. That's not funny; that's your teacher. You're being incredibly disrespectful. Apologize now." My CT made him stand in the back of the room with his arms above his head while he passed out the exam and students got settled, but I feel like the kid still thought he was amusing. I gave him a really un-amused and disapproving look--he'd said it to get my attention--but it's frustrating that I didn't have a chance to fully reprimand him. He was also later caught silently doing the 8-heads measuring thing after he'd finished his exam. I guess it's also up to my CT to draw that line too, but still. F*cking rude.
Quote from: nomadicmadda on December 11, 2015, 12:41:12 pmMy main CT is an ajeosshi who is very short in stature--the students give him a lot of flack for it, especially when I'm around (I'm 6ft/184cm). He takes it fairly well and has a good relationship with them, but today when he and I were proctoring the last exam together, this one particularly smart-mouthed student went, "Nomadicmadda Teacher! XXXX Teacher students say is very ugly!"It's times like these I wish I spoke a bit more Korean, or spoke it fluidly enough to react faster. I wish I could have said, "Hey. That's not funny; that's your teacher. You're being incredibly disrespectful. Apologize now." My CT made him stand in the back of the room with his arms above his head while he passed out the exam and students got settled, but I feel like the kid still thought he was amusing. I gave him a really un-amused and disapproving look--he'd said it to get my attention--but it's frustrating that I didn't have a chance to fully reprimand him. He was also later caught silently doing the 8-heads measuring thing after he'd finished his exam. I guess it's also up to my CT to draw that line too, but still. F*cking rude.I feel ya. There is definitely a line that really shouldn't be crossed. Most of my current students know it. If they tease me but I can tell they are being playful, I just roll with it and tease them back because I try to have a decent rapport with them and getting upset at every tiny insult would give me an aneurysm but if they are doing it to be hurtful, they get the hose again some kind of punishment. My co is pretty lax but he always gets my back when I'm after a kid who's being a problem so that's nice.It's funny to see them react because the look they get from me, they know right away that they went too far and usually start apologizing profusely. I'm pretty easy going but once I pull out my angry voice, they tend to smarten up. Good times.
My Kids write that I am a "son of a bitch" on the tables.. (I'm actually a bastard, but whatever)Also give me the finger behind my back.. yell *********, tear their books up after the first two weeks, etc...Oh yeah also shouting at me that I need to speak Korean because it's Korea! While I'm trying to teach a lesson, or help them.
Quote from: Hot6^ on December 11, 2015, 01:04:05 pmMy Kids write that I am a "son of a bitch" on the tables.. (I'm actually a bastard, but whatever)Also give me the finger behind my back.. yell *********, tear their books up after the first two weeks, etc...Oh yeah also shouting at me that I need to speak Korean because it's Korea! While I'm trying to teach a lesson, or help them.well that could get annoying, what do you do about it?
Festival Day! Can't wait to see what the kiddos have been cooking up.On another note, avoiding Star Wars spoilers by getting off facebook and other places I frequent for a week. I just don't get why my friends think its so funny to spoil things for people.