<< Birthday Sap Comes From Christmas Trees | Main | Chronicles of a Conference >> January 13, 2006 >> AniSaturday One of the more hateful things about working in Korea is giving up your Saturday to go to some useless training session with no pay. The deal with Korean ESL is that your written contract means nothing; any stipulations about not working on weekends or overtime hours are purely lip (text?) service and the sooner you get used to that idea the less you'll cry into your pillow at night. There are always catches to that "no more than 30 teaching hours!!" carnival claim. You'll be doing extra intensives when the kids are on vacation from public school, and you'll be choreographing interpretive dance segments for the kindergartners' graduation day. You'll do "just one favor," time and time again. You'll be doing bonus work... oh my, yes. You'll do it for the kids, dammit! So today I am headed into Seoul to listen to some corporate droning and hopefully some music (if I can hide it under my hood) and maybe if the gods are smiling on me today, I will devise a plan to escape out the back door and spend the afternoon wandering around the streets aimlessly, like a drug addict. I'll do it for the kids! Posted by Chris at 09:34 PM >> Commentations (0)
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