Different types of DELTA?

**zeusbheld** · 5th August 2012 19:22

Originally Posted by exprat

So I guess that makes YOU a clown, Mr. CLOWN!!

you're really good at this comeback thing. can i be a clown too, even though i'm not a TEFL teacher? can i please? huh? huh?

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Originally Posted by NET

Sounds horrible. 1000 pounds a week and having to live in the UK.

can't be that bad. the football's half-decent at least (except for the international game of course).

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Originally Posted by exprat

I'd rather be the janitor.

wasn't knocking it. i was the guy who rebooted the computers.

**exprat** · 5th August 2012 21:57

It all depends on where you live in England but I don't like the capitalist vibe here. I always feel really poor when I look about in England.

You can be a clown if your profession is trivial low stakes tedium and poorly remunerated.

Anyway, I don't want to be a sourpuss, so allow me to congratulate all those of you who have managed to work in decent language schools - you've really made it in life

. You have my utmost respect and admiration. Teaching your own language to others is right up there with race car driving.

Next time you are down Ratchada, be sure to tell the hotties who enquire what you do for a living. I'm sure they'll be bowled over.

Truly yours,

A SELF-LOATHING TEFL teacher

**zeusbheld** · 5th August 2012 22:29

did a TEFLer screw your wife, your daughter, your mother and your dog or something? you seem obsessed with 'em. unhealthily.

**marcopolointhailand** · 5th August 2012 22:43

i would do the mekong delta too if had the chance

**Lost** · 6th August 2012 11:04

Originally Posted by exprat

A SELF-LOATHING TEFL teacher

I think anyone who uses a gay picture of Cliff Richard is a bit suspect.

**exprat** · 6th August 2012 22:15

I'm TRAPPED in a TEFL malaise.

**fred flintstone** · 6th August 2012 22:27

**zeusbheld** · 6th August 2012 23:06

Originally Posted by exprat

I'm TRAPPED in a TEFL malaise.

are you? or are you just an obsessed failed TEFLer? i suspect more the latter. otherwise you'd sweep your insecurities under the carpet instead of having a (public, yet semi-anonymous) parade over them.

**Anna Key** · 6th August 2012 23:19

'Malaise' wasn't the best choice of word to convey what I think was intended. I felt some sympathy for the poor TEFL and its malaise. Have another look, see what I mean?

**exprat** · 7th August 2012 00:44

I'm a pretty successful Tefler. That's the depressing part.

It was never my intention to keep doing it. I figured I'd be out after 5 years. Now I'm staring down the barrel of the DELTA, and the ME is looking a distinct possibility.

This isn't what I had in mind as I watched Rocky I and II on rotation as a 5-yr old.

**NET** · 7th August 2012 06:13

How does it feel to be a failed TEFLr ExTwat?

Having to to a DELTA of all things and off to the sandpit.

What a loser.

Now before you get up in arms, I'm just supporting your own self-perception.

**zeusbheld** · 7th August 2012 06:22

Originally Posted by exprat

It was never my intention to keep doing it. I figured I'd be out after 5 years. Now I'm staring down the barrel of the DELTA, and the ME is looking a distinct possibility.

ah. there's where the bitterness comes from. if you don't like it you CAN do something else you know, possibly even teach something else if you like teachering but hate EFL.

Originally Posted by exprat

This isn't what I had in mind as I watched Rocky I and II on rotation as a 5-yr old.

for me it was Star Wars. turns out that becoming a Jedi Knight is wildly impractical.

**exprat** · 8th August 2012 01:00

Soz.

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I'm being spoilt, I guess.

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It's put up or shut up.

I was the one who came on here asking about the DELTA.

I'm working through some things right now.