I’m willing to bet that Mr. Jang-Yong Choi is the best travel agent in Korea. He works at Time Machine Travel up in Seoul. Here’s the company’s webpage. (It’s also available in Korean.) Where other agents only checked the cheapest classes, he went one class up, checked on things, and managed to get me tickets to India via Bangkok, and back, with a short stopover in Bangkok, all for only a little over a million won! (About a thousand dollars, cheaper than anything I have been offered yet.) And on top of that, he even is looking up what I …
Category: KOREA
Shock!
Wow! Well, it seems like the ESL section of my website is more popular than I imagined. There are tons of teachers out there doing what we teachers do best… stealing goodies from other teachers, namely me. It makes me happy to see it going on. Another teacher, in New Zealand, has sent me some more goodies and I’ve been too busy to look at them. These days I am working in a very different program, where minimal handouts are the best way to work… so I haven’t had a chance to add anything new. But it seems people are …
In-Class Persona stuff
When I started teaching, as a teachin assistant in Montreal (which at my University meant I was the professor for a freshman class), I didn’t understand that I wasn’t quite supposed to be the same Gord in the classroom as, say, at home. I thought, look, my job is to show people how to do a job. I was teaching writing, something I was good at, and I was teaching students who were basically my own age, or only a few years younger at any rate. I felt that there was no way I could actually pull rank on them, …
Hot Profs Score More?
Here’s article about how more attractive professors score higher on student evaluations. Now I am curious to see what my student evaluations will look like. In Montreal, I was a lot heavier and I scored pretty well, but I thought it was all the time and work I put into my teaching. Maybe it was just my beautiful eyes? Hahaha.
Korean Sweatshops, Sweatshops Abroad
In this article, Chinese Girls’ Toil Brings Pain, Not Riches, I found something that got me thinking: She and her friend Wei Qi, also 16 and also a Chinese farm girl barely out of junior high school, had been lured here by a South Korean boss who said he was prepared to pay $120 a month, a princely sum for unskilled peasants, to make false eyelashes. I sometimes hear from friends here how their siblings are starting businesses in China, and how it’s the land of opportunity for young Koreans who want to make a lot of money. But I …