On Thursday I participated in the testing of several voice controlled programs for upcoming cell phones. I had to speak predetermined text messages and the cell phones would do their best to figure out and type what I said. One was really bad and the other was getting about 75% correct. My favorite two messages:
The teach ain't show up yet
Her attractiveness rises like the price of petrol
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The great news is it snowed on Thursday. Western Seoul had about 30 minutes of the white stuff falling from the sky. The more east the clouds went the less snow there was. I heard the Shincheon area only got about 5 minutes of the stuff.
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I have been an editor for several ESL books by a large publisher here in Korea. I am currently editing a third book for them which is closely tied to the second that I worked on. Looking at the updated version it looks like they only made twelve changes out of the first fifteen pages of notes I wrote for them. I only wrote, you know, 73 pages of notes >_<'''
I love this country but the education system (books, teaching styles, punishment systems, and almost everything ESL related) is really skewed. It's really hard to care about teaching when we have to teach the wrong material, use problematic books, have too tight of schedules, too high of expectations, numbers of crap teachers, employers who don't follow their own contracts. I'm tired of being disillusioned and tired of feeling that my efforts are for naught.
I cannot wait to get out of this system and into full time Korean lessons; which I know will be crazy hard but for me will be more beneficial. For now I'll be going to work, putting on my 15 pieces of flair, (continue) to use my spare time for Korean, and leave as soon as work is done.
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