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Burkas at Macdonald`s
26/04/2012 16:02
Burkas at Macdonald`s
Capitalism is possession, or what`s possessed by whom; which means that men are demons. The two great religious traditions that have genuine antipathy for each other are Islam and Hinduism. In Hindu belief the soul is a living being independent of the creature it is...
How To Get A Job In TEFL
12/02/2012 12:29
How To Get A Job In TEFL
Walking into a language `studio` in Buttapes asking for a job, they said, `Send us your CV.` E-mailing back that there was work, `with some companies`, sleeping all through the next day said something of my enthusiasm. Often a `dummy` lesson is required, and the...
Dr Rusher in Russia
12/02/2012 12:01
Dr Rusher in Rusher
The pitfalls of being an English language teacher are many and varied. Take my wife, for example; people seem to. On my passport, it says ‘single’. However, among the first words the director of a Rushon branch of Language Wank, London, said to me, when I arrived in...
Serious in Syria
12/02/2012 11:57
Serious in Syria
Noticeable to an EFL teacher in Syria in 2003 was the ubiquitous mien of President Bashar Al Assad. It`s an ambivalent ambiguous depiction of the country`s head of government that gazes down upon you at every turn. From giant billboards overlooking highways and pedestrian...
Curia utca and Curia utca
12/02/2012 11:50
Curia utca and Curia utca
`Curioser and Curioser` the white rabbit from Lewis Carroll`s Alice In Wonderland (1865) might have said, when he saw the street sign, `Curia utca`, in downtown Buttapes. Curia utca is the street where curios can be bought (utca means `street` for Hungriuns)...
Is Ted Knacky Coccus Really Ted?
07/02/2012 11:46
Is Ted Knacky Coccus Really Ted?
The ELT master of gnomic utterances, cursing subvocally, saw the fourteenth stud`nt out of eighteen go off in the direction of their avowed destination, the toilet, and wondered how he`d been Skyped into this. Recruiter, Jim Pederathty of Thki Rocketing,...
Putting One`s Feet Up Without A Permit
07/02/2012 11:41
Putting One`s Feet Up Without A Permit
Fifteen years as an English language teacher and you would expect some reward, wouldn’t you? In 2000, after five years of teaching, I’d amassed the princely sum of €12,000. Largely thanks to a year spent in Dalek, Pseudi Yarubeer, being bussed from work...
The Secret Life of an English Language Teacher
07/02/2012 03:29
The Secret Life of an English Language Teacher
The mind of an English language teacher is a curious place. `None curiouser,` as the protagonist of Lewis Carroll`s Alice In Wonderland (1865) might have said to the Dormouse floating amongst the teabags in the pot. Spending most of my classroom...
The Requirements for an English Language Teacher Teaching Overseas
07/02/2012 03:23
The Requirements for an English Language Teacher Teaching Overseas
By way of a salutary warning to those seeking to take up the cudgels and belabor the sensibilities of those who seek to greet you in your own language, after fifteen years one gets some idea of the parameters of one`s prison...
The Further Adventures of Dr Rusher
07/02/2012 03:20
The Further Adventures of Dr Rusher
The quest for giving students marks for nothing at all goes on apace. The good doctor is now firmly esconced with the Jizzy Ra International Academy of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where candidates are greeted with the legend on framed vellum parchment ten feet...
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