I thought that this article in which a woman stops nagging her husband to try out techniques used by animal trainers. She gets better results following the animal trainers' lead...
I thought this would be appropriate for intermediate and above adult learners.
Take a look at this picture of Red Devil Korean soccer fans in City Hall for the big game. I was there, and it was just a crazily huge crowd. Feel free to save me from talking to myself on my soccer forum.
I've been spending a lot of time trying to clean spyware and adware of my PC recently. One problem is MyLinker and it's possible that the Korea Herald is responsible. Shoddy newspaper and evil adware installing website? I hate the Korea Herald (and they made MyLinker very hard to get rid of - still working on that).
Another criminal teacher in America. Perhaps I shouldn't judge so quicly (innocent until proven guilty) but teachers have to know better, don't they?
Today a couple of my colleagues and I were in a meeting preparing for next semester when a student interrupts to hand in a paper. My colleague says "It's a little late."
The student says she didn't know the article was due at noon (it was 1:30) but my colleague called her on that little fib: "It was written on the assignment, right at the top, in big bold letters. Plus I wrote it on the board and told you in class."
The student continued protesting, insisting that she didn't deserve to lose any points because she didn't know about the deadline. My colleague said that she would deduct a few points because the assignment was late.
Eventually, the student turns her back, says "I just think this is ridiculous," and slams the door on her way out.
Now we're talking about a graduate student here, a teacher in training. How could she not know better?
Final exam season here. In a few minutes I have to proctor another 2 hour exam. I can usually read a few pages of my newest travel book, but mostly I'm pretty vigilant. There are so many students in a such a big room and the other proctors are pretty vigilant so I try to pay attention to the test-takers for 2 hours but it's ahrd (and boring). Anyway, time to go do it.
After reading about a foreigner who lost and then found his cell phone, and comments about the taxi driver who wanted compensation for returning it, I thought I'd write about a few experiences I know of.
There certainly are people who would have returned the phone without demanding or even accepting a reward. I know I did when I found a student's mobile on the ground during our university's festival.
I once left my bacpack on the subway and was able to get that at the lost and found. Although my backpack is very fashionable no one took it home and it found itself in the Seoul subway lost & found.
I was once talking to a taxi driver in Singapore who lost his traveling cash and passports and everything on the subway in Seoul. It was all returned to him.
However, taxi drivers have it rough. I was once told that a taxi driver working 12 hours/day and 6 days a week would pull in about 1.5 million/month (around 1,500 dollars). I'd be miserable in those circumstances.