I was all set to take my daughter back to America to start K3 at a Montessori school in Milwaukee before the pandemic washed over the country. A couple months back I had heard from them saying that they had planned to still have in-person sessions and I hadn’t heard from them since, so I sent an email saying I think I’m going to have to withdraw my kid. The administrator told me there would be a Zoom meeting for parents with the principal in a couple days.(why hadn’t I heard about this earlier??) Attended the meeting and now it sounds like things will be entirely remote, at least for that age group, so I’ll try keeping her enrolled after all.Maybe had we closed the putt putt golf courses and arcades (and bars, for Christ’s sake) over the summer we could have something like a regular school year in the fall, but instead we tried not to let it ruin our summer and now we drank away our children’s future.I was going to graduate with my BSN this fall but — though they toyed with the idea — they aren’t conducting clinicals online, so I’ll have to split my final semester’s courses, taking my online courses remotely over the fall and the clinical courses over the spring.
...monkeys.
This guy coughs. Like. A real deep, throaty cough. Every minute. I can handle a sneeze. I can handle a cough. But I can't handle a deep, throaty cough every 60 seconds. Sorry. This guy was consistent as shit, too. I had to leave. I was halfway through my cocktail pitcher, too. DamnI had to leave. There was no way I was staying there. I've heard a lot of coughs, A lot of sneezes. Nope!
I dropped into Lotte Dept store this morning and there were 16 (I counted them) shop assistants/sommeliers in the wine section, which I'd say is a little bigger than your average convenience store.
Training?
I'm so sick of talking with a Korean in English (teacher/friend etc....it could be anybody cause this has happened to me hundreds of times) and when another Korean person comes in to talk to them in Korean ...they immediately talk to them in Korean and I am left feeling like an idiot. I never know what to do...but I am sick and tired of waiting around....acting/feeling like a hurt-bag!
My reference to Noonchi was a bit tongue in cheek. People say it means something like “social awareness” but the only time I’ve been praised for it is when I seemed to pick up on the power dynamic of a social situation. It only really matters if used to discern the vagaries of mood of someone higher than you in the pecking order and to act in a way to appease them.
I've experienced this too and I feel your pain. I've heard of 'Nunchi' and interrupt as guidelines to follow social etiquette or protocol. Honestly, I think many people aren't particularly good at their own culture's etiquette, they've the social graces of a retarded baboon to Koreans as well. - At school, if it's a student interrupting my conversation with a teacher, they're getting a scolding.- If it's a teacher interrupting my conversation with another teacher, I'll wait a maximum of 30sec, say excuse me, and then walk away. Oftentimes, they'll ask where I'm going and I'll say I've got work to do. Typically, the hint is received that they were being rude.- Sometimes, even if it's an adult, I will tell them to wait a moment. The way I see it, I'm not embarrassing them, they're embarrassing themselves by interrupting a conversation. I pick my battles though and usually just walk away if it's not worth the trouble. The onus is on us as well for not being particularly good at Korean and not being able to join in on the conversation, but when my CT and I are talking about the lesson plan and the gym teacher bursts in, without knocking obviously, to spend 20min bitching about her husband, that's a different story.
Quote from: Don Hobak on August 17, 2020, 05:49:19 amMy reference to Noonchi was a bit tongue in cheek. People say it means something like “social awareness” but the only time I’ve been praised for it is when I seemed to pick up on the power dynamic of a social situation. It only really matters if used to discern the vagaries of mood of someone higher than you in the pecking order and to act in a way to appease them.Yup, me too!
my noons are so dap-dap hey-yo, for the night .... they are either ...iso or eopso! They can't decide!
Yur noons r gucci
Too many noons being spoken about, and not enough moms, eums, parks, gils. They deserve a mention.