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Kids have their temperature checked with an ear thermometer before they can enter school, which I guess isn't that big of a deal. I'd really complain if I had to get tested too. However, I think it's a little unsanitary because they don't change the probe cover (I'm not even sure there is 
one on the thermometer). Instead, the guy testing the kids wipes off the ear piece every now and then with his bare hands. The ridiculous thing is despite all their efforts to prevent the spread of swine flu, the majority of Koreans seem to have no idea how disease is spread or how to limit the spread. Some of their habits are simply disgusting and have bothered me since I arrived.
There is rarely soap in the bathroom and when soap is provided nobody bothers to wash their hands. The one towel hanging on the wall to dry your hands is the same towel teachers use to wipe their mouth after brushing their teeth.... I have a bottle of sanitary spray at my desk that I use. In addition, no body covers their mouth when they cough or sneeze. And spitting is a culturally accepted habit. Spit covers the hallway floor at school. To protect myself I don't let my students touch any of my pens, pencils, or other supplies, and when I see a kid coughing, sneezing, and wheezing I make sure to keep a good distance between us.
Even more irritating is the cancelation of all up coming festivals! There was suppose to be a big firework show in Seoul last weekend, canceled. The JinJu lantern festival I was planning on going to in 2 weeks, canceled. The Andong Mask Festival, Oman Muscat Festival, Kimchi Festival, etc... all canceled! Ironically the subway is still open, if they were really that scared I'd think they would close the subway (that would be really inconvenient and suck though). The festivals are outside in open air, the subway is a closed confined car where the germs just hang in the air and circulate.
Thanks a lot Korea for ruining all my plans and taking away my last chance to experience these things.
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I was also apprehensive about having the students clean my desk at school (at my schools, and I'm sure at yours, the students cleaned everything themselves). I didn't want them mopping my area with the same mop that was just run across the bathroom floor, and I didn't want them wiping my desk with the same cloth that's been sitting under the sink since March and gets used to wipe every other surface in the room.
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I don't let the students near my stuff when it comes to cleaning. I have a cup of pens/pencils, a couple of scissors, and erasers they can use but they can't touch my stuff. I know it sound paranoid but they things I so those kids touch and do...
The kids don't mop the bathroom at my school, instead some adjuma comes in at the end of the day with a hose and sprays the place down. I didn't know this until I was working late one night and went to the bathroom. I had to roll up my pants and tip toe out of there to avoid the squatter toilet backwash.
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