You've been in TEFL too long when...
Alex Case has a
MEME related to TEFL going. I'm copying it here and then adding my own to the list.
- You laminate your shopping lists
- When you have a house or family meeting, you ask people to discuss the issues in pairs first
- Two thirds of your favourite teaching books are out of print
- The worksheets at the bottom of your pile of things to try have started to decompose
- You speak to your family with Elementary level English
- Your foreign students teach you about the latest music from back home
- You even try to elicit your proposal of marriage - “What do we call it when a man and …”
- You've been in your host country longer than your students have been alive
- When you return to your home country it annoys you to no end that people are speaking English everywhere and you can't tune it out
- when you return to your home country, you get reverse culture shock
- You correct everyone's grammar, even when it's not wrong
- you know more acronyms than anyone should ever know
- you know more than 17 different fun ways to re-seat a large group of people
- you have more non-native English speaking friends than native speaker friends
- You look at English as a means to make money, not to communicate
- you can easily explain the difference between the simple past and the present perfect
- going to work in the morning makes you want to cry.
- backpacker is a term of derision and scorn
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