NoFakie 45 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Fingers crossed big man! Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted October 11, 2013 Author Share Posted October 11, 2013 and from here too. I'm looking forward to hearing about the Chinese places. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Have visa! will travel! Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Congratulations! Link to post Share on other sites
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pie-eater 207 Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Amazing to think he was actually 73 in that clip! He looks so young. Link to post Share on other sites
tokabochi 9 Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Well done, sir! Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 that Cliff fella needs congrats himself. Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 don't forget the celebrations.. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 can't stop congratulating just yet. Link to post Share on other sites
7-11 2 Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Hurray! Where will you live? Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Gambatta ne! Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 now onto celebrating Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 whoopee !!11!!! Link to post Share on other sites
the snowboarding vicar 1 Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Did you celeblate, ippy? Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 He's gotten lost in the celebrating circuit. Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 that can happen during a full moon.. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 chinas nice. The jobs gonna be hell though 28 classes per week. They were keen to stress that im getting it easy because ive only started. Once i get used to it, i "may" (re: will), be on a proper schedule of 34 or so classes/week These are tied into a text book which i cannot avoid using. The company i work for absolutely insist i must teach to them. They are wildly optimistic if you ask me. Well meaning text book, has lots of group production activities and even choose your own discussion topics, but yeah... im not sure its level appropriate for anything other than high level small scale classes. But we shall see! Oh, and being the number 4 best school in tianjin (theres at LeAST 42 jhs since my school is near Tianjin number 42 JHSchool), the school are apparently rather demanding. i also have a 64km commute every wed/thu involving an EPIC subway journey (about 2 hours) and 2 taxi rides book-ending it. Im strongly comtemplating spending every wednesday evening in a hotel to avoid the commute. The apartment ive just signed the lease on can only be described as ghetto. It was the best of the around 11 apartments we saw today. If you want anything near japanese simple standards, youre paying about 4000/month id say. Mine cost 1700/month. Do the math! Link to post Share on other sites
kkk 7 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 28 classes a week!!! Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Sounds like another adventure, ippy! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Sounds like eikaiwa Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 What are the Chinese chicks like ippy!? Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Ha! Eikaiwa is a doddle. Turn up, play stupid games or turn up and spend an hour chatting about something. The end. This is proper grown up teaching to middle and Senior high classes (all classes are 40-55 students). Kids are really sweet though. Just spent the week (actually its been a day and half but it already feels like a week - im puckered!) flirting with the text book and actually doing the following three things: 1. QA (all stand up, ask questions, they answer they can sit down - with 50 kids! wheee! half the lesson gone). 2. 10 answers on the board about me, they have to think of the question. Takes ages. 3. My ppt self introduction with a handy map of the world so i can spend 15 minutes dragging kids up and pointing out various countries. Thats it. Didnt start doing step 2 until the afternoon yesterday, so had to actually try and get them to discuss shit about the theme theyre gonna cover. Not easy. But thats nice. I can re-write my lesson plan and do this weeks lesson plan next week and just do the intro this week for the next 18 classes - 7 today As for the girls, theyre a) diverse. So many faces in china. Andb) theyre pretty tall. In fact pretty much everyone from 15 to 25 are kinda tall. I actually had a scary moment when i did my usual walking up and down the rows of students and suddenly realised i was pretty much surrounded by basketball players or something. About 7 kids in those two rows were over 6 foot. Im a teensy 5.9. I now know how my pipsqueek dad felt when my generation added a couple more nches to the standard height. Girls are cute. They dont wear makeup, but honestly if youre waiting for a 9 or a 10 you might see 1 or 2/day. Id say the average is 6-7. Lots of plain weather-beaten faces and functional clothing. Not from communism i should add, just from the sheer length of a days work. I dont know what i expected to be honest, but its hard to even see remnants of communism out there. If anything, thailand was far more militaristic and in your face about authoritarianism. Just feels a lot like japan/korea. Link to post Share on other sites
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