Korea can be a fun and exciting place. However, it is very different from living in Western countries and many foreigners have trouble adapting to the local culture.
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Submitted by I on 25 September 2006 - 3:21pm.Tags:
No understanding
I'll say. A problem I'm having here is that many people here don't understand that I don't understand, if you understand. Many people think that if they speak slowly I will understand them. It took my school two months to finally appreciate there were many things I could not do with my computer owing to every instruction and programme being in Korean (finally, after several requests, they changed my Windows programme over to English). It has taken them just as long to figure out that I can't understand the objectives for the classes because they too are written in Korean (despite them expecting me to conduct the classes independently). They recently gave me a pile of new textbooks to help me conduct special classes and you guessed it, they're all in Korean.
lol@my last post
Oh, and I missed the bus yesterday, and my jersey shrank in the wash, and I missed half of Footballer's Wives because I was busy marking homework, and I haven't had bacon and eggs for weeks, and they don't drink real coffee here. (jokes about everything except bacon eggs & coffee)
It's not actually that bad here, but you have to be irrepressible and a bit imaginative.