Back in Korea I've been doing my regular teacher-training programs which are always a real pleasure to teach. This time around we have French and German highschool teachers, who are being retrained as English teachers due to low interest in European languages in high schools these days. Students are voting with their feet and believe that English will help in their future lives much more than German or French ever could. Understandably many of the teachers on the program are upset that the language they have put their heart and soul into over the last ten to twenty years is suddenly being taken off the curriculum and it is a situation of either be retrained or retrenched.