I mean, unique colloquialisms and idioms have developed to describe similar things, from country to country and from region to region, even if they share the same language, and it's not really a crazy concept that these things end up transferring or being adopted simply because they just make sense to everyone, while certain other ones just don't. Immigration, close borders, mass media, entertainment. It happens.Take "dish soap" for example. Both British and American English use the word "soap," but you won't really hear a British person call their washing up liquid "dish soap" unless they've lived in the US and, I assume, Canada for a time (do Canadians call it dish soap, too, or do you call it something else?) because, to them, it doesn't make much sense. Because soap is supposed to be a solid and not a liquid, haha. And Americans aren't really ever going to call a cookie a biscuit because biscuits aren't supposed to be sweet or flat. I personally find it really interesting to compare notes.Does NZ have a similar term that's more common to use?
There is always one kid who ruins it for everyone....
There is always one kid who ruins it for everyone. Last year I spend quit a bit of time putting together a choose your own adventure for halloween. I used it in 3rd and 4th grade and was very careful to make it spooky but not really scary. All the ghosts and monsters were cartoonish, there was no blood and no jump scares. All the students seemed to enjoy it...except for one. There was one boy in 4th grade who spent the whole class with his head on his desk, his eyes clenched shut and his hands over his ears. I thought it was weird but I guess some kids just have a lower tolerance for that sort of thing. Fair enough. He has since taken it to another level. I tried to play a dungeon runner game i found on here with his class. There aren't even any monsters in that game. The students just have to remember a series of directions. If they choose the wrong route, they come to a dead end. That's it. As soon as I put it on he starts yelling "No, no, no!" and tries to take my usb out of the computer. I explain to him there are no monsters. My coteacher also explains. He starts crying and I have to abandon the game. Now he is in grade five. Today I played a hangman alternative I whipped up. It's just a guy chewing bubble gum. If the students guess wrong he blows a bubble that gets bigger until it eventually pops. He immediately starts freaking out yelling and crying. I have had several conversations with my CoT about him. He does not have any behavioral problems and is actually one of the best students in the class. I guess his class will not play anymore games.
I don't remember a different one instead of "hog wild" - but we call dish soap 'detergent' in NZ, dish soap was uncommon. :oI've never heard dish soap be called regular soap haha.
every night i leave a little bowl of food and water for the local street cat. it's very cute, never noisy. i think he's the only cat which knows about the food, so he waits for me to give food every nightanyway, i came down this morning and some cnut had purposely stubbed out their cigarette in the cat food, and knocked over the water bowl. like...who does that? why be such a colossal prick? if would cost literally no money and no effort to not do those things
What a truly magnificent POS you've discovered. Who does that? Weaklings who've learned that their mother and the law will protect them from any repercussions as a result of acting like a pathetic loser. I'm not too sure on this, but I believe there's a law against harming animals, which carries a couple million won fine. Perhaps you could put the food and water bowl in view of your apartment's CCTV next time, along with a warning. Either way, cats are resourceful little ninjas and I'm sure he got a nice meal somewhere else, plenty of neighbourhood ajjumas regularly feed strays and ferals where I live.
Yeah, I agree, it could be as simple as him being super pampered and sheltered, but it could also be a phobia of loud noises or anything he fears might have loud noise. And it could just as easily be hidden trauma or something else undiagnosed. For example, I knew a guy who was a very good student in school, maintained very high grades, was an all around nice guy, seemed very stable... but the minute he heard someone sing "Happy Birthday," it triggered physical tremors, sweating, chain-smoking, and quiet cursing. Then it would take him around 10-20 minutes to become functional and "normal" again. He never talked about why this triggered him and would never ever talk about his past at all, but he did tell me once that he has no family and that he has nothing to do with his parents at all, so it's not hard to assume there's a lot of childhood trauma there."Detergent" is what we use for laundry, lol... and for the powdered soap used for the dishwashing machine, but I'm not sure if the latter is universal across the States or just in my part.
had a sort of open class for student teachers in their 3rd year of college......one student said no less than 30 times during my class "Korean is number 1 Korea is best".....how do you deal with those situations when a coteach will not let you lead nor ask the student to stop?
hog wild? Anyways, I'm not condoning Korean social culture, I too think it's archaic and BS, I'm just going to do my best to explain it. Even if your CT said something hurtful, by telling her that what she said hurt your feelings, you've become the architect of a now awkward situation. According to Korean logic, you're now at fault. Furthermore, she considers herself your senior making it even more of a faux pas. The Korean way is for you to ignore what she said, particularly if she's your senior. Even if someone is at fault, calling them out causes them to lose face and "breaks the harmony" thus, you are the one at fault. Things are changing in the sense that it seems more acceptable to call someone out for bad behaviour in public, however, social interactions seem to be more traditional.It's absolutely ridiculous, I know. How would Ideal with it? Be more selective as to who you allow into your circle. If it's a work colleague, keep things professional, polite and cordial, but don't get too personal. Alternatively, could you just be too sensitive? I'm just entertaining the possibility as I've never had a CT say anything nasty to me in years.
Sorry to reply so late...But no I wasn't being overly sensitive. I simply have asked her on many accounts to stop telling me that I am a foreigner and that being so I can't relate to the students. I told her this is not true and it hurts me when she says it.This particular instance came to pass because we had a speech contest (through video) and about 85 percent of the students were reading from the screen and had copied a script of some sort. I asked "Is this a reading contest"? What am I judging? (She hadn't told me she said the kids could sometimes "glance" at the screen). So I mentioned most of the students haven't prepared for the contest at all. (Which was true...most of them were either reading from a paper or on the screen)...She then said that I don't understand Korean students or Korean culture. And that's when I told her that her words hurt me cause that wasn't the case at all. Then she proceeded to go "hog wild"......accusing me of not appreciating the students and NOT APPRECIATING KOREA! (she has said this before when I have gone against her judgement). She said and I quote "IF YOU GO AGAINST ME YOU GO AGAINST KOREA"....I left the room.I have no idea how to deal with this woman...as I have said...this is the second time I told her she hurt me.The first time is when she told me that all foreigners smell like cheese and all Koreans smell like fish and garlic. I told her that wasn't the case and she told me that she travelled to Australia and the UK and it was true. I asked her if I smelled like cheese and she said no because I had been living in Korea for many years. I told her that her findings were ridiculous and they are weird and then she said for the first time that if I go against her, I go against Korea.
Sorry to reply so late...But no I wasn't being overly sensitive. I simply have asked her on many accounts to stop telling me that I am a foreigner and that being so I can't relate to the students. I told her this is not true and it hurts me when she says it.