They consider cereal "bread", too. So I wonder if they think anything made with wheat flour is bread. Would pasta fall in with that?No, I think that gets its own special category. Anyway, if Koreans give you a lot of something that everyone knows you cannot possibly eat all on your own, it's because they're expecting you to share it with friends/family.
Ugh so tomorrow my school is having a parent-teacher conference thing and apparently they need my classroom as well so I'll have to awkwardly be in a different classroom. At least I got some notice, I guess. I'll just have to go classroom hunting after lunch today.Quote from: Chinguetti on September 08, 2016, 09:25:58 amThey consider cereal "bread", too. So I wonder if they think anything made with wheat flour is bread. Would pasta fall in with that?No, I think that gets its own special category. Anyway, if Koreans give you a lot of something that everyone knows you cannot possibly eat all on your own, it's because they're expecting you to share it with friends/family.No they don't...? At least in my experience I've never met a Korean who considered cereal to be bread.
Quote from: yirgacheffe on September 08, 2016, 09:35:53 amUgh so tomorrow my school is having a parent-teacher conference thing and apparently they need my classroom as well so I'll have to awkwardly be in a different classroom. At least I got some notice, I guess. I'll just have to go classroom hunting after lunch today.Quote from: Chinguetti on September 08, 2016, 09:25:58 amThey consider cereal "bread", too. So I wonder if they think anything made with wheat flour is bread. Would pasta fall in with that?No, I think that gets its own special category. Anyway, if Koreans give you a lot of something that everyone knows you cannot possibly eat all on your own, it's because they're expecting you to share it with friends/family.No they don't...? At least in my experience I've never met a Korean who considered cereal to be bread.They don't consider ceral to be bread. I think the mix-up there comes from the fact that they refer to cereal crops as cereal. So for example, rye is a cereal.
Who knew my 1st grade co-teacher would be even more useless than the one she replaced? The one who, while nice about it, always had to leave class half an hour early to write some sort of "urgent email." The new one waltzes in 10 minutes late on the regular and spends the rest of the time presumably catching up on her own work in the back. I wish she wouldn't show up at all because it puts me in an even fouler mood than I would be otherwise having to deal with obnoxious first graders.
So there is a Chuseok lunch that the teachers at my school are going to that I was never invited to. I didn't know about it until one of the admin secretaries accidentally came up to me to inform me off the time change, then awkwardly giggled and scurried off when she found out I didn't know about it. Quote from: chupacaubrey on September 08, 2016, 09:49:44 amWho knew my 1st grade co-teacher would be even more useless than the one she replaced? The one who, while nice about it, always had to leave class half an hour early to write some sort of "urgent email." The new one waltzes in 10 minutes late on the regular and spends the rest of the time presumably catching up on her own work in the back. I wish she wouldn't show up at all because it puts me in an even fouler mood than I would be otherwise having to deal with obnoxious first graders.Thats what all of my CoTs did last year. One came late, one left early, and one stayed the whole time, but they all did their own work the whole time.
Quote from: HaLo3 on September 08, 2016, 09:57:27 amSo there is a Chuseok lunch that the teachers at my school are going to that I was never invited to. I didn't know about it until one of the admin secretaries accidentally came up to me to inform me off the time change, then awkwardly giggled and scurried off when she found out I didn't know about it. Quote from: chupacaubrey on September 08, 2016, 09:49:44 amWho knew my 1st grade co-teacher would be even more useless than the one she replaced? The one who, while nice about it, always had to leave class half an hour early to write some sort of "urgent email." The new one waltzes in 10 minutes late on the regular and spends the rest of the time presumably catching up on her own work in the back. I wish she wouldn't show up at all because it puts me in an even fouler mood than I would be otherwise having to deal with obnoxious first graders.Thats what all of my CoTs did last year. One came late, one left early, and one stayed the whole time, but they all did their own work the whole time.Would you mind not going to this lunch? I asked to be excluded from all future 회식 at my school because I feel super excluded from every conversation at the dinners. I can usually handle this at lunch and sometimes the other teachers and admins make an attempt to speak to me in English. However, at 회식 i feel super left out. I dont expect them to cater to me and I know that these events are super informal. The teachers feel relaxed and just unwind drink and have casual conversations in Korean. I hate just sitting there eating and not speaking to anyone other than my coteacher who hates being there and just stares at the clock the entire time. I may appear rude but I think at some level the other teachers and administrators understand my reasons why.
I asked to be excluded from all future 회식 at my school because I feel super excluded from every conversation at the dinners. I can usually handle this at lunch and sometimes the other teachers and admins make an attempt to speak to me in English. However, at 회식 i feel super left out. I dont expect them to cater to me and I know that these events are super informal. The teachers feel relaxed and just unwind drink and have casual conversations in Korean. I hate just sitting there eating and not speaking to anyone other than my coteacher who hates being there and just stares at the clock the entire time. I may appear rude but I think at some level the other teachers and administrators understand my reasons why.
So frustrated. Spent a bit working on a powerpoint, tried to open it from my flashdrive again and got an error message in Korean. I originally was just going to make it again rather than ask my coteacher to help since she's useless and I try to minimize interactions with her, but I decided to ask anyway. She said, "I think error. Best to turn off the computer and turn on again." Yeah, I realize there's a ****** error, and turning my computer off isn't going to fix it. So I did it anyway and yeah, here I am remaking my powerpoint.
I shrugged my shoulders and said "I don't care." Because I REALLY REALLY DO NOT CARE ANYMORE. Little cry baby!!!
Quote from: MataHari on September 08, 2016, 11:04:41 amI shrugged my shoulders and said "I don't care." Because I REALLY REALLY DO NOT CARE ANYMORE. Little cry baby!!!She ball that kid.