Yup, that's exactly like the "orientation" I had in Seoul (and I mean exactly---I recognize those hats!) except that mine was three days long, and instead of being on the beach it was in a featureless but dirty hotel in a featureless but dirty district of the city (and we didn't get to go to a temple). You should really be feeling sorry for the EPIK teachers who arrived on time; the official orientation is eight days of this, and yes the people in my building were still complaining about it when I got here.
OK, I'm going to bed now and then to Japan. I'll see you next month...
Thanks, too, for documenting Marisa's thoughts about the workshop, through providing audio-video evidence. I'm not sure I would want to teach English (or anything), if I had to sit through workshops like that (though the beach looked inviting.
Posted by Doug Magnuson on Jan 26th, 2009 at 4:51 am.
Oh, the familiarity
Yup, that's exactly like the "orientation" I had in Seoul (and I mean exactly---I recognize those hats!) except that mine was three days long, and instead of being on the beach it was in a featureless but dirty hotel in a featureless but dirty district of the city (and we didn't get to go to a temple). You should really be feeling sorry for the EPIK teachers who arrived on time; the official orientation is eight days of this, and yes the people in my building were still complaining about it when I got here.
OK, I'm going to bed now and then to Japan. I'll see you next month...
we didn't ever feel that way
In case you were wondering (the words on the video said so), we didn't ever feel that way about our children. :-)
thanks for documenting...
Thanks, too, for documenting Marisa's thoughts about the workshop, through providing audio-video evidence. I'm not sure I would want to teach English (or anything), if I had to sit through workshops like that (though the beach looked inviting.