Quote from: Aristocrat on June 21, 2017, 02:48:45 pmQuote from: jddavis7 on June 21, 2017, 02:20:51 pmQuote from: chupacaubrey on June 21, 2017, 01:59:32 pmQuote from: What?What? on June 21, 2017, 01:16:44 pmStudents:"What?What? Teacher can we do our stop motion here?"Me: "Yes, of course."Korean teacher: "Do you know stop motion? How do you know stop motion?"Me: "because I have an IQ above 10"Why? How, would I not know what stop motion is? lol some of the things here that warrant surprise are amazing -- like when I answer to 선생님 and everyone is like OHHHHHHHHHomg, I showed a stop motion video in class, and my kids understood it but my teacher just couldn't fathom it.When kids ask me if I know 'Overwatch' and 'League of Legends'. Their head nearly explodes after I affirm. "Teacher, how do you know?"You little sh*t, I could easily name over 100 video games on console and PC as I was already gaming for a decade when your forebears spawned your puerile person into this world.I easily HAVE over 100 games and I could start namedropping them. They think they're gamers. They merely adopted gaming. I was born into gaming!Them kids don't even know Final Fantasy. Shame on them.
Quote from: jddavis7 on June 21, 2017, 02:20:51 pmQuote from: chupacaubrey on June 21, 2017, 01:59:32 pmQuote from: What?What? on June 21, 2017, 01:16:44 pmStudents:"What?What? Teacher can we do our stop motion here?"Me: "Yes, of course."Korean teacher: "Do you know stop motion? How do you know stop motion?"Me: "because I have an IQ above 10"Why? How, would I not know what stop motion is? lol some of the things here that warrant surprise are amazing -- like when I answer to 선생님 and everyone is like OHHHHHHHHHomg, I showed a stop motion video in class, and my kids understood it but my teacher just couldn't fathom it.When kids ask me if I know 'Overwatch' and 'League of Legends'. Their head nearly explodes after I affirm. "Teacher, how do you know?"You little sh*t, I could easily name over 100 video games on console and PC as I was already gaming for a decade when your forebears spawned your puerile person into this world.
Quote from: chupacaubrey on June 21, 2017, 01:59:32 pmQuote from: What?What? on June 21, 2017, 01:16:44 pmStudents:"What?What? Teacher can we do our stop motion here?"Me: "Yes, of course."Korean teacher: "Do you know stop motion? How do you know stop motion?"Me: "because I have an IQ above 10"Why? How, would I not know what stop motion is? lol some of the things here that warrant surprise are amazing -- like when I answer to 선생님 and everyone is like OHHHHHHHHHomg, I showed a stop motion video in class, and my kids understood it but my teacher just couldn't fathom it.
Quote from: What?What? on June 21, 2017, 01:16:44 pmStudents:"What?What? Teacher can we do our stop motion here?"Me: "Yes, of course."Korean teacher: "Do you know stop motion? How do you know stop motion?"Me: "because I have an IQ above 10"Why? How, would I not know what stop motion is? lol some of the things here that warrant surprise are amazing -- like when I answer to 선생님 and everyone is like OHHHHHHHHH
Students:"What?What? Teacher can we do our stop motion here?"Me: "Yes, of course."Korean teacher: "Do you know stop motion? How do you know stop motion?"Me: "because I have an IQ above 10"Why? How, would I not know what stop motion is?
Quote from: kriztee on June 21, 2017, 03:07:24 pmQuote from: Aristocrat on June 21, 2017, 02:48:45 pmQuote from: jddavis7 on June 21, 2017, 02:20:51 pmQuote from: chupacaubrey on June 21, 2017, 01:59:32 pmQuote from: What?What? on June 21, 2017, 01:16:44 pmStudents:"What?What? Teacher can we do our stop motion here?"Me: "Yes, of course."Korean teacher: "Do you know stop motion? How do you know stop motion?"Me: "because I have an IQ above 10"Why? How, would I not know what stop motion is? lol some of the things here that warrant surprise are amazing -- like when I answer to 선생님 and everyone is like OHHHHHHHHHomg, I showed a stop motion video in class, and my kids understood it but my teacher just couldn't fathom it.When kids ask me if I know 'Overwatch' and 'League of Legends'. Their head nearly explodes after I affirm. "Teacher, how do you know?"You little sh*t, I could easily name over 100 video games on console and PC as I was already gaming for a decade when your forebears spawned your puerile person into this world.I easily HAVE over 100 games and I could start namedropping them. They think they're gamers. They merely adopted gaming. I was born into gaming!Them kids don't even know Final Fantasy. Shame on them.Hahahahaha, yes! Exactly this!
Them kids don't even know Final Fantasy. Shame on them.
Quote from: scpru on June 22, 2017, 07:30:12 amQuote from: kriztee on June 21, 2017, 03:07:24 pmThem kids don't even know Final Fantasy. Shame on them.Funny story. I was talking to one of my advanced students about games because he was surprised I like them. So I said my favorite is The Legend of Zelda. He didn't know what it was. I asked if he knew Final Fantasy. His response..."I only know famous Korean games."My response..."Oh... Overwatch is Korean? Blizzard is a Korean company? League of Legends was made by a Korean game company, too?"His "foot in mouth" expression was great I'm sure he probably meant to say "I only know games famous in Korea," but good for you! You sure showed him!
Quote from: kriztee on June 21, 2017, 03:07:24 pmThem kids don't even know Final Fantasy. Shame on them.Funny story. I was talking to one of my advanced students about games because he was surprised I like them. So I said my favorite is The Legend of Zelda. He didn't know what it was. I asked if he knew Final Fantasy. His response..."I only know famous Korean games."My response..."Oh... Overwatch is Korean? Blizzard is a Korean company? League of Legends was made by a Korean game company, too?"His "foot in mouth" expression was great
Quote from: #basedcowboyshirt on June 22, 2017, 07:49:03 amQuote from: scpru on June 22, 2017, 07:30:12 amQuote from: kriztee on June 21, 2017, 03:07:24 pmThem kids don't even know Final Fantasy. Shame on them.Funny story. I was talking to one of my advanced students about games because he was surprised I like them. So I said my favorite is The Legend of Zelda. He didn't know what it was. I asked if he knew Final Fantasy. His response..."I only know famous Korean games."My response..."Oh... Overwatch is Korean? Blizzard is a Korean company? League of Legends was made by a Korean game company, too?"His "foot in mouth" expression was great I'm sure he probably meant to say "I only know games famous in Korea," but good for you! You sure showed him!You know, if I had realized it at the time, I wouldn't have said it. I'm not in the habit of being an asshole to one of my favorite students for no reason. I misunderstood. Lord.
Back-to-back speaking tests today. This is my only free period. I feel like I should mutiny.
I'm getting tired of Korean food again. And I'm tired of Koreans being like "you can find everything you eat in America in Korea easily right?" and they get shocked when I tell them no, we eat more than pizza and hamburgers. No, I can't easily (or affordably) continue my same diet from home here. I'll deal, but I don't know why so many people here are like "we have all the same food as America right?!" I mean, I wouldn't assume that my home has the same food available as any other country so why the hell would Korea be the exception? Another annoying thing is when I actually have to tell an adult human that no, Korea isn't the only country that eats rice.
My CT runs to turn off all the fans. I tell her that it's going to get really hot and that she can just tilt the fans to face upwards, thus maintaining circulation without blowing the cards off the student's desks.She doesn't understand and I go to show her how to tilt the fan... She panics and runs up to me saying "No! No! I'll do it." Offended and not in the best of moods, I tell her that I'm a 30yr old man, who has graduated from University, with an honours degree. I know how to operate a simple fan without breaking it.
Quote from: Aristocrat on June 22, 2017, 12:30:11 pmMy CT runs to turn off all the fans. I tell her that it's going to get really hot and that she can just tilt the fans to face upwards, thus maintaining circulation without blowing the cards off the student's desks.She doesn't understand and I go to show her how to tilt the fan... She panics and runs up to me saying "No! No! I'll do it." Offended and not in the best of moods, I tell her that I'm a 30yr old man, who has graduated from University, with an honours degree. I know how to operate a simple fan without breaking it.Ugggggggghhhhhhhhhh, I've said it before and I'll say it again, the infantilisation of the foreign teacher amazes me. "Wow, you took the subway to Yeoju? Isn't that difficult?" NO"Wow, you went to Noraebang? How?" IT'S EASY. "Wow, insert X here." YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN HERE OVER 4 YEARS.Imagine a Korean was in Toronto for 4 years? "Oh, wow! You made it down to Niagara Falls all by yourself? How on Earth did you manage that? You know how to do that?"People would call me the most condescending prick in the world.
My annoying coT keeps asking me to speak Korean to the students because they supposedly "think it's funny." I shoot her down every time now. I get a feeling she wants to feel superior about her pronunciation of her native tongue. One time she insisted I repeat some Korean sounds after her (like ㅆ and ㄸ) and the students just gave me looks like they didn't get the point of the demonstration and/or thought her crazy. She was trying to show that my pronunciation was off but I like to think I'm passable.