Quote: (04-01-2013 12:51 PM)Deepdiver Wrote:
Outside of teaching English have you tried any "game" techniques and what are you finding works if any one technique better than another - of course as banging your students would come under violation of the time honored workplace "rules" "Don't dip your pen in company ink" and "Don't shit where you eat" curious what you have been doing to game and socialize in your off hours as it seems that 20 to 25 classes at 1 hour per class leaves plenty of extra time.
To be honest, up until recently I haven't had a lot of free time, so I haven't been able to run much game. I've always been more more of an online gamer, anyway, and still have trouble with doing cold approaches. But being here, it's a little easier since I have to cold approach people all day long asking if they speak English. Once I've spent more time in a general social setting, I should have more to report on that. Also, yes, my boss is VERY strict about no gaming at the workplace, so my students have been off-limits.
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Of course turning a friendly student wishing for some free native English speaker practice time into a wing women free interpreter city guide maid cook social catalyst does not violate the dipping pen rule. Is that an option?
Actually, it is, as one of the students recently volunteered herself for several of those things. She's a little young for my tastes, but it certainly doesn't hurt to have a wing woman who speaks English and can show me around. I actually have a few other friends like that, that I met outside of the school.
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What are the main motivators for your students to pay to learn English, travel, career, potential marriage to a EU/UK/Angloshere spouse?
Career and travel are the overwhelming favorites. There's only one student that I know of at my school right now who is learning it specifically for finding a spouse.
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What have you been doing to connect with the local female talent, days, nights, shops, kiosks, pubs, bars, clubs, social media, FB, VK, Mamba.ru etc etc? What age brackets are you mostly attracted to?
Like I said before, I haven't had much opportunity yet to run any kind of game outside of online game, which has primarily been on mamba.ru. That place is kinda tough, as there are more girls looking for sponsors than for anything meaningful, and I have a hard time flashing the green just to get laid. I could've stayed in the US for that.
But as far as the online game goes, it's really been a numbers game, and I haven't had a shortage of women to talk to. I've met up with over half a dozen girls now, and even have a regular FB now with another possibility in the waiting. Since it's finally warming up here, and I've got a little more free time now, I should be able to try some day/night game and see how that turns out.
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Also are you seeing any possible local biz opps to augment the $6 an hour?
Actually, outside of teaching English, I'm also working on some other online projects for my boss, so I've got plenty of avenues for supplementing my income now.