I appreciate that this post actually defends the school, instead of just attacking me personally. You never mentioned which LCI you work at, do you work in Gwangju? You used a psuedonym so I can't tell. Whether you do or not, how can you say that much of what I said is false? Have you walked in my shoes? My experience was my experience, and my observations are my observations.

Fact of the matter is, I was assaulted by the boss, locked out of my apartment, had all my items stolen.. if people there are so upset about my blacklisting, they just need to understand my experience. Being homeless in Korea, short on cash, and having to look over my shoulder all the time was an unpleasant experience to say the least. Why would anyone be surprised that I'm blacklisting this school after having an experience like that? If I add my own observations about the school itself that's my right. Some of my observations are complaints, and some are just observations- nothing more. You mistakenly assume all of my observations are complaints. For example, the point in bringing up the pay was to counter Brandon's claim that we were paid very well. 2.1 is average, not very well, I was pointing that out. I would complain about the hours, because they do make their teachers work the longest work day of any school I knew about. The comment about my first day was not a complaint either, just an observation to counter Brandon's statement about making the new teachers feel welcome, as that was certainly not my experience.

You then go on to make some condesending remarks about my mindset. How do you know what my mindset was? Are you a psychologist? Were you in my head? Do you even know me? Or are you just good at making assumptions? This just sounds like more victim blaming mentality I talked about before. In everyone's experience, there are both external and internal factors that define the experience. To say it's all internal is untrue. Am I to assume that getting assaulted and locked out was just a figment of my pessimistic imagination? That's just stupid. That had nothing to do with the "life I made for myself" or any of the other fluffy, meaningless things you say. It was something that happened TO ME, which I am very upset about, and wish to make as many potential teachers aware of as possible.