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hehe, you believe this is true?
Nonsense, which guy needs to do this in Thailand? The land of...
Thats why we cheap charlies are here for, to stop having to hang out at "deserted bus stations in Bangkok".
Where are these, by the way??
I believe it. Why did he "need" to do this? Because rape isn't about just wanting to have sex. It's about power, control, domination, and rage. This guy is a perfect example. He obviously had issues if he wanted to get back at pretty women just because of his own feelings of inadequecy, and he took his anger out on the women.
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It sounds like he needs to see a speech therapist, who you should be able to find at most hospitals (at least the major ones).
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Dont know if it can be classed as 'passenger conflict' but flying out of Accra to Schipol I arrived at my seat and found a large colored lady sat in it. Suggesting she had the wrong seat she showed me her boarding pass...same seat number as mine.
So I called a steward and explained the problem..she was just too big for her to sit on my lap...no problem sir, just come with me...so it was buisiness class and a window seat for the journey. Good food,plenty to drink and very pleasant
"Colored lady?" What does that detail even have to do with the story? Except maybe tell us something about you....
And I don't know if you are joking or not...I sure hope so. If you were really that rude as to tell the flight attendant that the problem was the lady's size (which it wasn't...it was that the seat was double booked)...well, then the flight attendant should have moved the lady to business and kept you in economy!
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I find the LCCT terminal to be pretty bad. It's crowded, dirty, cramped, & noisy. Food & beverage choices are limited, with no "nice" places.
I did, however, use the lounge facility once, and that made a longer layover bearable. I can't remember the prices, but it's a pay-for-use lounge open to anyone, not an airline specific lounge. It was NOT an overly nice lounge compared to other airports, but at least it was quiet & comfortable. Some basic food & beverages were provided, and best of all, you can take a shower. They provide a towel, a hair dryer, and maybe some shampoo. That shower was great after a long flight. I feel like the prices might have been high in relation to what you get, but for me, it was completely worth it just to escape from the chaos of the LCCT.
If I'm remembering correctly, there seemed to be one lounge upstairs right before the boarding pass check (before the escalators), and one lounge downstairs by the departure gates. I can't remember if both have the same facilities - the showers might have only been located upstairs, but the pay you buy is good for either loungs.
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Well, I may have to move all the desks...even though it's a pain. Plus, there is hardly any room to move, even when you do move the desks. No, I don't take it personally. I certainly have a lot to learn....however, I do feel that I'm pretty energetic and I play games and sing songs with the students. I still feel that because of the way the Thai teachers discipline them (hitting them,) it actually makes things more difficult for the foreign teachers. I find that giving one student who was exceptionally good, a sticker at the end of class works well. Any more ideas would be welcome.
I agree, kids love stickers, and they can be great motivators. If your plan of giving an exceptionally good student a sticker works well, that's great. But I would also suggest giving rewards/reinforcement more often than at the end of the period (and other poster already suggested this as well). The truly problematic kids are unlikely to be "exceptionally good" the entire class period. Those are the kids you need to target, and those are the ones who probably need immediate reinforcement of their positive behavior. So as soon as they do something well, it helps to "reward" them, either with a sticker, with a special job, or even with just verbal praise. That will make them want to repeat that positive behavior. You could try having very small stickers to give out, and at a random (unannounced) point in your lesson, give a sticker to every student who is following directions/sitting down/etc. But you have to keep it positive. You don't want the kids with inappropriate behavior to feel punished ("Too bad - you weren't sitting!") because that will just make them rebel even more. Rather, use the stickers to motivate those kids to behave. You have to give them another opportunity to earn a sticker. So you could say, "I really wish I could give you a sticker, [Name], but you weren't sitting down like the other kids. If you sit down and listen, you can earn a sticker." Then a few minutes later, you can again reward all of the kids who are sitting. It may seem cumbersome at the beginning, but as time goes by, the frequency of sticker-giving can become less and less.
Otherwise, if you decide to only use the sticker reward for one student each day, keep in mind that you can't expect the same behavior out of all kids. "Good" students may earn the daily sticker by listening the entire class, participating well, AND sitting nicely. But the kids having a hard time will almost never live up to that standard, at least not right away. It's too much of a jump. You'll have to gradually condition them and mold their behaviors. So if a "naughty" student who normally runs around the room the entire class is able to sit down for just one activity, that's a huge improvement for that particular student. You can still give that child the daily sticker and make sure to emphasize that he/she is getting the award because he/she sat down during the _____ activity. That's the key - looking for an "exceptionally good" day for a particular student as compared to his/her normal behavior, not just compared to the whole class.
Don't underestimate the power of praise. That's my #1 tool for managing behavior. I rarely, if ever, use prizes or stickers. (Although I completely understand that extrinsic rewards are sometimes necessary.) Even if kids don't show it, I truly believe that almost all children (except maybe a sociopath, lol) want attention from their teacher & want to please their teacher. The more you praise them and make them feel good about themselves, the more likely they are to listen to you. Who doesn't like to be complimented? The same principle works with adults, whether it's in a professional setting, in the dating world, etc. Compliments/praise starts a cycle for students, but a good one - unlike the cycle of kids being labeled "bad" or "naughty," getting no positive reinforcement from teachers, and then continuing or even escalating their behavior. When teachers use praise, the other kids want that kind of attention too. I've seen classrooms where the kids are almost trying to out-do each other to be "good" so that the teacher will compliment them.
Good luck!
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Thank you sincerely for the above replies.
It does seem that the high salaries earned at these international schools go hand-in-hand with heavy workloads.
I wouldn't call it a "heavy" workload, I'd call it a "normal" workload.
Normal as compared to teaching jobs in the US or UK, that is. Yes, international school teachers work hard, but so do certified teachers all over the world. Honestly, I feel that if people aren't willing to put in the work (and I don't mean you, OP), then they shouldn't be teachers. The last thing that any education system needs is more teachers who do a half-assed job and try to get away with doing as little work as possible.-
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One more thing...you know how little kids are always trying to get your attention, and they all want your help at the same time...saying teacher, teacher, teacher...and it's like, well I can only help one kid at a time...how do you get them to stop that. I tell them to wait a moment (in Thai as well) but they are not the most patient kids....
Yes, that can be so annoying. I have found that it works to go out of your way to acknowledge the kids who ARE being appropriate and raising their hands/waiting. When a student is shouting out for you, you can use that moment to remind him/her to raise their hand, but don't try to quickly answer the question so you can move on. That will only reinforce the behavior. If you say, "XXX, you need to raise your hand and wait your turn," then acknowledge a student who is doing that ("I like how YYY is raising her hand quietly. YYY, what do you want to say?" it is likely that XXX will raise his hand. Kids learn from imitation, and if they see that doing the expected behavior gets them the attention they want, they'll learn to start doing it. Or you can say, "XXX, I want to help you, but YYY had her hand raised." Eventually, once the kids understand your expectations, you can start completely ignoring the kids who are shouting out and acknowledge the ones who are appropriate.
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Boney M's 2012 lineup failed to convince the hardcore fans.
This guy isn't even the hot African guy that most women would fly around the world to hook up with. He's like the African version of the ugly Thai women I often see walking hand in hand with dorky looking guys around town. The kind that makes you think, "Seriously? Of all the beautiful Thai women, you picked HER?"
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To reply to this post from a womens perspective is simple...
1. Fact: Women dont go to other countries looking to find the love of their life, fall in love, and say "she" loves me....women are not delusional;
2. Fact: Most men come to Thailand with one thing on their mind, they know they can have sex for a third of the price they pay at home;
3. Fact: pretty much all men that hang in any of the well known Soi's , Cowboy, Soi 4, pat-pong, pattaya, Patong, ect...
are revolting leeches who prey on these women who in other circumstances wouldnt be sitting next to you on a barstool....
The moral to this is : Women seeking men are usually single & lonely,
Men seeking women/men are usually married cheating sexual predators, living a double life....
And where did you get all these facts from? Confusing the word "fact" with the expression "in my opinion" is how 'urban myths" originate.
I completely agree. I am a woman, and I can say that the perspective above is certainly not mine. Bangkoktiger, are you a woman, or are you speculating on how a woman would react to the article? Either way, I don't agree with a lot of your points. If you ARE actually a woman, then your statements further contribute to the idea of double standards, and to the "urban myth" of angry, bitter western women. Way to go.
If you are a man being sarcastic about how women would react, well you too succeeded in making us look a lot crazier than we actually are. So way to go for you, too.So many people on this thread have said that it's a double standard that people get angry about male sex tourists, but think that female sex tourists (for lack of a better term) are fine. The thing is, I don't think most people think it's "fine." I think that many, many women in western would countries would look down on women who go to Africa or Bali to have sex with the local men, just as they look down on men who come to Thailand for sex. Lots of men probably would too, just like they already judge guys who bring a Thai girlfriend back home with them.
Obviously just based on this thread, not too many guys in Thailand are saying "Yeah, you go for it, we might as well all have fun." Instead of supporting the women's rights to engage in sex tourism (just like many fiercely defend their own right to engage in sex tourism) or listing justifications for why it's ok, a lot of guy have taunted the women just as much as men get taunted about Thai women. I bet some of the same guys who tease these women for "trading up" to African men are the same who brag about "trading up" to Thai women. Isn't that a double standard too? Personally, I don't think that anyone, man or woman, should agree with what happens in Thailand but disagree with what happens in Africa. Or vice versa. It should be all or nothing....either you support the idea, or you don't.
A poster pointed out that people think that female sex tourism is cool, so suddenly they made a documentary about it. I don't think they made a documentary about it because people think it's so cool or so normal. More likely, they made a documentary about it because people in the west think it's bizarre, funny, and weird. Just like when they try to make documentaries every now and then about the sex trade in Thailand.
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Western women with African men; Guess size does matter?
Once they go black, they never go back?
Yeah. Why would you want a Vienna sausage when you can have a bratwurst?
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Western women with African men; Guess size does matter?
For sure.
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In all seriousness, no, I generally don't pick up 1 baht coins. I hate carrying around a bunch of 1 baht (and smaller) coins anyway. I'd pick up 5s and 10s, though.
I'd probably have a good chunk of cash if I took better care of all my one baht coins over the years, but it's just not worth it for me. Whoever finds that one baht coin probably appreciates it more than I do.
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The "cowboys" harassed my wife, jeering and yelling at her. Even following us down the street yelling, whistling. I've never encountered something like that in all my travels with her...which are extensive. She even got propositioned by a guy outside Ubud while holding my hand! Incredibly rude the things he was saying.
Now you know what it's like to be a western woman walking down the street with her western boyfriend/husband in the seedier parts of Thailand.
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Hello Mr nitpick ; And usually the concensus in Thailand is, that you got to have white skin, before labelled falang.
Didn't you read that sentence ?
How about cctv footage revealing 3 foreign men ( read article from yesterday ), that now really is 1 foreign male and 1 Thai man and 2 Asian women ?
I have asked around the office, 4 Thais all agreeing that a falang ( foreigner ) must have white skin, and is not Asian.
Didn't you read the article? It says FOREIGNERS, not falang. Anyone who is not Thai is a foreigner in Thailand - Europeans, North Americans, Africans, and yes, Asians.
YOU are the one saying that foreigner = falang, which is simply not true. Your coworkers might agree that a "falang" has white skin, but that's not the same as a foreigner. Those two words are not completely interchangeable.
The 2 women from Malaysia are foreigners, because they are not from Thailand. It's not that complicated.
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Some flights were full, some weren't, which was nice because the planes were small and the seats were quite small as well. I sent you a PM with more details.
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But I do understand that my wife feels like this, and so I'm OK about working away from this area if it can smooth things over.
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The thing is, I just don't think that you leaving to work somewhere else will fix things.
I can completely understand your reasons for needing to stay in close contact with your ex. It makes perfect sense logically. However, emotionally, I agree with the other ladies...I'm pretty sure I'd be uncomfortable if my boyfriend/husband talked to his ex every single day. I've dated a man who had a children from a previous marriage, and sure, I know he needed to maintain a positive relationship with her as they shared custody. I was fine with the occasional phone calls & him seeing her when he picked up the kids. I knew he had zero interest in her. At times, she even had new relationships, and he was happy for her. But, had she called every day? Not cool.
The problem with just leaving to work somewhere else is that it doesn't fix the issues between you and your ex. It almost sounds like you'd be running away from the problems. Sorry, but it's true. At best, it will just postpone those issues until you eventually return home again. Then what? And if you don't plan to return home for a very, very long time, then what's the point in even staying married? At worst, it may even intensify the trust issues. Your wife will probably be wondering what you're doing, who you're with, if you're still talking to your ex, etc. She might say she's ok with it now, but I don't know too many women who would really be ok with their husbands taking off just because things aren't going well. Personally, I'd start feeling abandoned, and like he doesn't want to be with me anymore so he left.
I don't think there's an easy solution to this problem. Maybe you can try really hard to show your wife how she's the most important to you - go out of your way to say nice things, do nice things for her, tell her how much she means to you. You could even point out reasons why she's so much better than your ex. Try to keep contact with your ex at a minimum - like you said, only when necessary. I'd advise against keeping your contact with her a secret. What she doesn't see won't hurt her? Wrong. We always know.
If she at ALL feels like you're being deceitful, there's almost no chance of working things out. You need to be open about the communications you do have with your ex, and like others have said, try to involve your wife when possible. Let her see/hear your interactions with your ex.If you are adamant that you will not change the amount of contact you have with your ex, and your current wife refuses to accept it, then you're going to have to make a tough choice. Hopefully it doesn't come to that.
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I had a travel agent book my flights within Myanmar (before I got there). No problems. We had a decent baggage allowance (25 kilos?), the flights were all on time, and the in-flight service was good. The flight attendants were very helpful and polite, we received drinks & meals/snacks even on the short 40 minute flights, and some flights had open seating, which was nice because my companions and I each got 2 seats to ourselves. The airports are quite small and seem unorganized at times, but if you can get over that, it was actually a fairly pleasant country to fly in.
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The experience you have will certainly put you in a much better standing regarding finding work, but I am curious about your (sorta) certification. Are you certified or not? I'm from the UK and there is no grey area with that, you either have QTS (Qualified Teacher Status) or you don't.
Exactly. Just based on the experience you listed, you're not certified. Maybe you're confusing "certified" with "qualified." You could try to make the argument that you are qualified since you have some experience working with students. But that certainly doesn't make you "certified."
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You poor thing. That must have ruined your whole year!
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"I don't know where you are from, but for me, it wasn't too expensive to get more pages added to my passport."
Americans now pay US$82 for a set of extra pages.
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I've never been to Malaysia. Can you drive there from Thailand? Is it a regular visa run?
I have no idea. I've always flown, and I don't do visa runs. I just know that they use a small stamp!
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No kidding, there are plenty of other countries who use a whole page stamp, not just the "abnormal" countries of Laos, Cambodia, & Myanmar. I don't know where you are from, but for me, it wasn't too expensive to get more pages added to my passport.
I do know that Malaysia uses small stamps.
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Problem #1: The Chinese teachers will not be able to speak Thai. Whilst not being able to speak the local language is not an impediment to professionally trained teachers of second languages, e.g. TESL teachers, will these Chinese teachers have those skills? Probably not.
Problem #2: China does not want or need Thai to be taught to children, and few adults want to learn it either.
Agree with #1 but I disagree with #2. The men will want to learn. They can get better prices on the bar fines.
I don't necessarily agree with #1. First of all it says Chinese teachers, implying that they already have training (and most likely, degrees & experience) in education. They might have experience with teaching Chinese as a foreign language, they may not. But how is that any worse than the people who move to Thailand and end up getting English teaching jobs because it's the only employment they can obtain and they desperately want to stay in Thailand? Most of them don't speak Thai. Many are not "professionally trained." (Not that there aren't some excellent, trained English teachers in Thailand.) We rarely hear posters criticizing the English teachers in Thailand, the majority of whom had little to no training in education before they arrived.
If needed, give the Chinese teachers a little instruction in teaching 2nd language learners, and the way I see it, as experienced teachers, they actually have a leg up.
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He then ran behind me for 100 meters, i drove really slow. I could easily beat the shit out of him, but I was concerned if he is in mafia, if he has a gun, or his buddies will help him, Me againsta 5 guys is not that good.
What are you thoughts?
My thoughts are that if you were worried he had a gun or buddies to help him, why the hell did you drive so slow and let him follow you??? You should have gotten out of there as fast as possible.
Normal as compared to teaching jobs in the US or UK, that is. Yes, international school teachers work hard, but so do certified teachers all over the world. Honestly, I feel that if people aren't willing to put in the work (and I don't mean you, OP), then they shouldn't be teachers. The last thing that any education system needs is more teachers who do a half-assed job and try to get away with doing as little work as possible.
If you are a man being sarcastic about how women would react, well you too succeeded in making us look a lot crazier than we actually are. So way to go for you, too.
How Much Can A Teacher Earn In Thailand In 2013 With A Master's Degree In Teaching?
in Teaching in Thailand Forum
Posted · Edited by Scott
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Yeah, well most teachers don't go into teaching for the money.
For a teacher to be able to make more than at home AND to benefit from the lower cost of living, it's a good deal. We know we're never going to make what doctors and engineers make.
Working in an international school in Bangkok with a master's degree, I made about 110,000 baht/month (net - after the 20% taxes and a few other deductions). I worked at a well-paying school, but it wasn't one of the few highest paying schools in BKK. When it comes to your salary placement, your master's degree is useful, but your salary will also depend on years of experience and certification. Do you have teacher certification in South Africa or Australia? If not, that will very well be a deal breaker for the higher paying schools. Or they may pay you a lower salary. Depending on your qualifications, I'd look for a salary range of more like 70,000-100,000+. Also look at things like housing allowances, bonuses, relocation assistance, annual flights home, health insurance, savings plans, etc. Part of it probably comes down to how badly you want to live in Thailand, though.