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| I just wanted to tell you what I'm reading.
And I got sunburnt at the beach in Vietnam today.
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| Wow, I've beena member of xanga for 194 days. That seems like a fitting period to call it quits. Actually, I should probably delete the sucker but I'll wait until I'm back in the United States to do so.
I have officially 12 more teaching hours, one of them is an open class. That's gonna suck. Oh, well it's tomorrow and then it will be over. Whee! Goodbye xanga, in less than a month I'll be back in America using livejournal again. | | |
| EDIT: Some really stupid students drew a picture of my co-teacher's stomach and my hips to make fun of us and my co-teacher found out. What a bunch of idiots. First of all, don't make fun of the older co-teacher 'cause she will get you. She said she scolded them, well I can tell you I'm gonna scold them too those bitches. If you can think of an approproate punishment suggestions are welcome. Right now I'm thinking of negative points and writing in large black pen "I'm ugly" on their books or better yet, maybe on their hands??
EARLIER: Today I was practicing "You should" with my students, so I asked my highest level class to give me a problem and they said "crazy!" So I played a long, and asked them what I should do. Suddenly some of them started saying you should go to "M. House!" Which apparently transpired was actually "Emouse". I thought this was the school store so I couldn't understand why until as I was leaving class I realized they meant the welfare center for the mentally retarded down the street from my school.
It just really frustrates me how disabled people are treated in this country. There are some kinda funky disabled people who go to this center, some of them very belligerent but I wonder if this is how society makes them. There are all older maybe late teens and up. There is a girl who is mentally retarded at my school and she has no friends, she never says a word ever and sometimes people are patronizingly nice to her. Her life must be terrible. I'm not trying to say people in America aren't assholes about the disabled, I really hate when anyone says "Oh, that's so retarded" but at least we take care of them in America. At least there are services from a young age for them. Here there is nothing. | | |
| We get a lot of ddok these days in the teacher's room and I've taken to asking my co-teacher conversationally who is giving it on any given day, as she never tells me of her volition. Today we got the ddok from Mrs. Park, who will take 3 months maternity leave. She gave us the ddok because she hopes to have a "man child". Jen approriately asked, "What do you give to have a girl? Or does that not happen?" I will ask my friend at the high school who is expecting a girl that question. | | |
| Lately my breakfasts have consisted of cereal (this is partly due to my host mother's guilt at not having time to make both fishy things her family can eat and some vegetarian protein thing for me) and broccoli. Yes, broccoli and I'm pretty much the only one who eats it but I have learned to love this bizarre combination.
I'm turning into a freak over the job search. I know I still have 2 month until I hit US soil but still, I really really want a job. I really really want to know I can get work and survive in the world. So I've been emailing like the 2 Smith alums I networked with. One has moved to San Francisco and the other's like "Why don't you stop by for tea?" So now I have to reveal to her what a freak I am and that I'm not even in America yet *grumblegrumble*
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