1.Yes, I am jaded. I admitted that in my last post.
2. Like the TEFL? It's just a certification, so it's good. I have a TESOL. If you were super serious about teaching, try getting a CELTA. What horror stories are there to tell about a teaching certification?? I'm glad I have one. It gives me a one up on backpacker teachers who decide to stay for a coupla months. It also teaches you great techniques and theories on how to teach. I guess it all depends on who you're gettin' it thru.
3. I never said there was anything wrong with falling in love. The purpose of life that a lot of people I've met here is to fall in love, get married, and have kids. I know that sounds the same as it does back home, but it isn't. It's more intense. Once at a university I was teaching at, I told my students that I don't plan to EVER get married OR have kids. One 18 year old girl stood up and asked me, - "how can your life be fulfilled? We are women and we are made to have children. We are supposed to have a family. If we don't have that, there's no point in life."
Are you fuckin' kiddin' me?
Anyway, all men and most women wanna get married and have kids. Do these marriages last? No, not really. A lot of men wind up goin' out drinkin' or dating other girls and the woman's at home wonderin' what happened to her love story, home with a kid and cleanin' the house. You really need to see the dynamic of a family here. It's just not the same.
4. Aspirations or tragedy? I never said I didn't wanna hear stories about that. When you ask someone here what do they want in life, a lot will answer - money or to have their own company (if they're ambitious). If you ask what they want to do with their life or what they want when they're in their mid to late twenties, they'll say they want to get married and have a family. That is the extent of the depth I find in a lot of people here. UNinteresting. What's sad about it is that I find that a lot of people just marry for money and that to ME is wrong, but who am I to talk? I don't make 200 dollars a month and have to support my parents.
5. Yes, absolutely. Only this time I find this in a higher percentage and the wording is about 90% the same so it's annoying.
6. Travel more. I won't run away for good because it's the same everywhere I go.
I wasn't so much talking about the certification as the actual teaching. sorry, I presumed you were teaching english as a foreign language to locals when you said your contract at the school still had three months. is that not what you are teaching?
true, gold digging veiled as marriage is wrong no matter where it's done at.
Sorry, you're right, I am teaching english as a second language. That's not so bad, it's teaching at public schools to monster kids that I just really don't like.
YES.... the honeymoon is definitely, definitely over.
Let me be the first to wish you a Happy Woman's Day. I've never heard of it but I think that it is a grand idea. More countries ought to have this kind of day to appreciate the women of this world.
2. Like the TEFL? It's just a certification, so it's good. I have a TESOL. If you were super serious about teaching, try getting a CELTA. What horror stories are there to tell about a teaching certification?? I'm glad I have one. It gives me a one up on backpacker teachers who decide to stay for a coupla months. It also teaches you great techniques and theories on how to teach. I guess it all depends on who you're gettin' it thru.
3. I never said there was anything wrong with falling in love. The purpose of life that a lot of people I've met here is to fall in love, get married, and have kids. I know that sounds the same as it does back home, but it isn't. It's more intense. Once at a university I was teaching at, I told my students that I don't plan to EVER get married OR have kids. One 18 year old girl stood up and asked me, - "how can your life be fulfilled? We are women and we are made to have children. We are supposed to have a family. If we don't have that, there's no point in life."
Are you fuckin' kiddin' me?
Anyway, all men and most women wanna get married and have kids. Do these marriages last? No, not really. A lot of men wind up goin' out drinkin' or dating other girls and the woman's at home wonderin' what happened to her love story, home with a kid and cleanin' the house. You really need to see the dynamic of a family here. It's just not the same.
4. Aspirations or tragedy? I never said I didn't wanna hear stories about that. When you ask someone here what do they want in life, a lot will answer - money or to have their own company (if they're ambitious). If you ask what they want to do with their life or what they want when they're in their mid to late twenties, they'll say they want to get married and have a family. That is the extent of the depth I find in a lot of people here. UNinteresting. What's sad about it is that I find that a lot of people just marry for money and that to ME is wrong, but who am I to talk? I don't make 200 dollars a month and have to support my parents.
5. Yes, absolutely. Only this time I find this in a higher percentage and the wording is about 90% the same so it's annoying.
6. Travel more. I won't run away for good because it's the same everywhere I go.
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true, gold digging veiled as marriage is wrong no matter where it's done at.
are you saying the honeymoon is over?
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YES.... the honeymoon is definitely, definitely over.
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