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Pinga said:
Can you read Korean, Jae?
How do you find shopping? Is there much English in signage?
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No Pinga, I can't read Korean. I'm thankful to have Yobo here with me who can. I also have the Google translation app - with that I can take a picture of Korean words and then translate them.

Shopping is a bit of a challenge - especially for food, since much of what I might buy in Canada simply isn't available at the mart closest to my Seosan apart. Other things are easier to buy. The prices are marked and 1,000 ₩ is about 1 dollar Canadian, so I know what's reasonable.

One thing that surprises me is how much English there is here. There is little, but more than I thought there would be. It does appear though, inexplicably (?), on some products and store names. Other times, there isn't English, but I don't need there to be. Example - if a food item has a picture of a microwave on the box followed by a number, I can guess how long I should zap it for.
 
Its Pam ... or Pan ... take your choice it is free to observe as your will directs in the heart of darkness ... wyrd thingy!

What we don't know is extensive and gothic ... occulted and dark ... something to pursue ... carry a light across IDE ... that primal befuddling thing ...
 
20181215_230932.jpg One thing I have yet to get used to in Korea is that in many of the homes, and certainly in our two aparts, the shower and the washroom are one and the same. This creates a 3-fold problem. When someone's in the washroom, someone else can't use the shower. When someone's in the shower, someone else can't the washroom. And, after a shower, the bathroom floor is all wet.
 
De whett, warm and fecund is essence you'll ... for continuation ...

There's even and old adage that water (what Ur) is the support system for the bottom lyre of des aulde thingy ...

A swamp to be drained? What a Job given the political input ... too polar and cold if you ask me ...

In precipitated polity it falls as collapsed knowledge ... a great smurf ... bit fuzzy?

Well real folk didn't wish to know ... due to orthodox guy Dan's ... hard hobs?


Sol Utions! Sometimes dense nebula ...
 
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We're introducing a store idea to our academy in Seosan. Students will be able to win coupons for good behavior - and will have to forfeit coupons for bad behavior. They can save the coupons and buy candy with them at the academy.
 
Jae said:
We're introducing a store idea to our academy in Seosan. Students will be able to win coupons for good behavior - and will have to forfeit coupons for bad behavior. They can save the coupons and buy candy with them at the academy.
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I have seen this done in a grade 7 classroom here.
 
Jae said:
How successful was it p3?
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Not very. The value of the coupons experienced inflation over the year. They could be spent on homework extensions which seemed counterproductive to me. The students earning the most coupons generally didn't need those extensions.
 
paradox3 said:
Not very. The value of the coupons experienced inflation over the year. They could be spent on homework extensions which seemed counterproductive to me. The students earning the most coupons generally didn't need those extensions.
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Okay, thanks.

Ours are to be for in-classroom behavior.
 
Jae said:
We're introducing a store idea to our academy in Seosan. Students will be able to win coupons for good behavior - and will have to forfeit coupons for bad behavior. They can save the coupons and buy candy with them at the academy.
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Have you discussed the concept of externally versus internally motivated behaviours amongst yourselves (the teachers/admin)?

I knew a couple of college teachers who used to hand out two "No Questions Asked" coupons, first day of each semester, each good for a one-day project extension, or to excuse a missed quiz, or similar sort of value. You only got two, you couldn't exchange them, and you got a couple of bonus marks added to your semester's mark if you didn't use them.
 
Jae said:
We're introducing a store idea to our academy in Seosan. Students will be able to win coupons for good behavior - and will have to forfeit coupons for bad behavior. They can save the coupons and buy candy with them at the academy.
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How old are these students? And is candy something they long for?
 
Jae said:
View attachment 1928 One thing I have yet to get used to in Korea is that in many of the homes, and certainly in our two aparts, the shower and the washroom are one and the same. This creates a 3-fold problem. When someone's in the washroom, someone else can't use the shower. When someone's in the shower, someone else can't the washroom. And, after a shower, the bathroom floor is all wet.
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I first encountered these in Scandinavia - different concept that what we are accustomed to for sure - but makes very efficient use of space.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Have you discussed the concept of externally versus internally motivated behaviours amongst yourselves (the teachers/admin)?
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No. I can't have meaningful conversations of any kind with most of the staff there.

BetteTheRed said:
I knew a couple of college teachers who used to hand out two "No Questions Asked" coupons, first day of each semester, each good for a one-day project extension, or to excuse a missed quiz, or similar sort of value. You only got two, you couldn't exchange them, and you got a couple of bonus marks added to your semester's mark if you didn't use them.
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Sounds good, I like that. Wouldn't work in my classes though, since the students don't do that kind of work for them.
 
Bo Nous even Trump expects them for nothing ... and love-god is nothing ... a kind of gap in process ...!

Some people grasp for nothing ... when the cheeks allow a better grasp ... missing one use the other !
 
I'm just curious, Jae. You've been married for quite a long time, yes? Has it never occurred to you to learn the Korean language from Yobo?
 
BetteTheRed said:
I'm just curious, Jae. You've been married for quite a long time, yes? Has it never occurred to you to learn the Korean language from Yobo?
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It has occurred to me to learn the Korean language Bette. I have yet to find the time to do that though. Until recently, the bulk of my time was spent studying missional theology at the seminary level. If I were to study Korean in the future, I wouldn't learn it from Yobo. I'd go to a KSL class.
 
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