Wednesday, May 16, 2007

The Side Effects of Being an English Teacher in Korea

- Eating a lot of ice cream and getting fat.

- Children's camp songs are always stuck in your head, and you sing them in your spare time.


- It may start to seem like a good idea to wear a big rubber horse mask out on a Friday or Satrurday night.


-You don't have a pet so you start naming everything. Your laptop is now "Lappy", the picked-on fish in the school aquarium is "Chance", and your rubber chicken toy is "Bessie".

- Sweet potato pizza starts to sound tasty.

- Your vision is fine, but yet you find yourself buying a pair of fashion glasses.

- You are willing to travel 3 hours round trip to buy $7.00 Hamburger Helper on the black market.

- Your allergies go away, but you are always sick or in some stage of becoming sick.


- An increase in the number of funny t-shirts you own is noticed.

- Third degree burns in your mouth, at least twice a week from surprisingly spicy food. Another side effect? After a while, the burns stop bothering you.

- Pork intake increases tenfold. Ditto for your consumed amounts of cuttlefish and other miscellaneous fish by-products.

- Your english speaking ability slips while your korean never really gets any better. "Students how was your lunch today?" slowly becomes "Students- lunchy good?"

- Your TV watching standards lower, and you become grateful that anything english is on TV at all. Hours of "Top Model" reruns become must-see-TV. As a result, your Tyra Banks impressions are spot-on.

- Chips are a good supper.

- Watching car accidents occur out your window is a pasttime.


- A back hunch rapidly develops as your time spent on the computer increases. Manically hitting refresh on Facebook and Perez Hilton.com is fun.

- You start to recognize, love, and sing along to crappy korean-pop songs.


- You miss Canada, and become more patriotic that you would ever be at home (odd)

- Loss of sleep due to a squeeky pipe in your apartment. Also, sleep may be lost due to your neighbours' high heels clomping up and down the hallway all night.

- You care that there is a 'u' in neighbour.


- Department stores dictate your moods. You are elated when Home Plus starts selling tortillas, but depression sets in when you realize that they have stopped carrying chicken gravy.

- You start a blog

- The fear and panic that sets in when you realize that in 3 months, 2 weeks and 4 days you will no longer be an english teacher in Korea. AHHHHHHH !!!

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