morning!!!!!!!!
another great day!!!!!!
and i'm getting off early cuz the teachers have to leave the school at about 2:30.
and i'm at my good school
and they have the heating on in the teacher's room!
(why isn't msn working?)
and i'm getting off early cuz the teachers have to leave the school at about 2:30.
and i'm at my good school
and they have the heating on in the teacher's room!
(why isn't msn working?)
posted by Justine at 6:30 p.m.
15 Comments:
(25 school days till holland)
1 month today till South Africa...Woohoo!!! And I got a new digital camera... Woohoo!!! Got my tickets yesterday and paid for them properly... From Niigata(16h) until I arrive at my sisters birthday(17th) out in the wine farms in Franschoek near Cape Town, I will have been travelling for 32 hours solid!!!! Via Shinkansen, train, plane, plane, plane, car... And my biggest break in that point is my stopover in HongKong in which I have 40 minutes to run across the airport to board my next plane before it takes off... I expect you all to pray for me on said day... What a catastrophe if any one of those things is delayed, or for example I get to Cape Town after travelling for 30 hours and they have given away my rental car... So many things could go wrong... さいやく... On a different note, I was watching Roberto Benigni`s various awards acceptance speeches for `La Vita e bella` before work this morning and I have come to realise that that man is my hero and if everyone in the world was like him, we would all be that much closer to a utopian society... He is absolutely fearless in his barrierless attitude towards the world... One of those people who makes you want to be better than you are... Sorry... Inspired me a bit today...
have you seen 'coffee and cigarettes'?
Saw i in Tsutaya the other day and then read about it this morning... Box looked silly but the review I read today said it was good...
J - congrats on your blog, truly! A couple of days since I last logged on and so many exciting new things going on...
If you don't mind me regressing slightly to previous conversation, corporral punishment which exceeds smacking is illegal in UK, and the EU very controversially wants to make smacking totally illegal. I'm afraid my knowledge ends there and I can't quote laws but i know that many people in UK feel it's none of the government's business.
Now I'm no loony lefty or tree hugger, but I really don't agree with hitting your kids. A controlled smack on the arse or hand for a small kid is fine and it is a clear way to show them they've stepped out of line.
But beyone that hitting usually comes out of parents loss of temper, frustration, and inability to handle the situation in a controlled way. I just think it sets a really bad example, that violence is a solution to a problem. I often wanna handle frustrating situations by lashing out and I'm sure a part of this stems from the fact I was hit by my parents as a kid. The question is how many parents have got the skill to teach their kids in a more civilized way? I may end up eating my words.
On the subject of being cold and as everyone else is moaning, my heater has broken which means that my mountain house, which is so much colder than you city folks', is stuck at 8 degrees. All I can think about is Thailand, followed by a ski season and getting rid of this horrible dreariness that certain crazy people (Kat) call their favourite season.
lindsay
i agree with you on the fall thing in japan.
i generally love fall, but here it's like there second rainy season
which makes it wet and miserable and cloudy.
unlike canada (the greatest country haha) where we have crisp yet bright sunshiny days around this time of year.
(actually it's probably snowing by now.....but in the sun)
ryan...watched 1/2 of C & C last night. so far so good. roberto benigni is in the first scene. the comedic climax of the scene was when he went to the other guys dentist apt. for him. ok funny if you watch the movie.
justine, glad you're happy and warm today!
ryan, sounds like an adventure alright!
lins, i agree with you. i think you take away a child's power when you hit them and let's face it kids don't have alot of that. a small, harmless smack is one thing but many parents take it to extremes and think it is ok. i come form a family of 7 kids and the first 6 of us all got smacked for misbehaving. not excessively but still.my mum then had my little sister eimear 7 years after my yougest brother. my parents did a rethink on their parenting methods and as such she has never been smacked. she is a really sweet kid. sure she misbehaves from time to time like any kid but my parents don't need to smack or hit her to discipline her. usually a look from my dad is all she needs.they punish her in other ways like no xbox for a day and make sure she gets why. my parents also foster 2 kids from disadvantaged backgrounds(permantly) and the difference in them now compared to when they came first is nothing short of astounding. obviously a hand has never been raised to them. we are what we are raised with. it is hard to shake off what we learn/deem as normal in childhood. interesting deshou?
ok so please nobody attack me today. i am sad,totally demoralised and upset here. went to visit my new school yesterday and everyone seemed fine except i heard that one female teacher(who i have worked with before in another school and who is blatantly really jealous of me,my relationship with the kids etc.i was aware of this.) lied about me to the other english teachers. she said i was lazy and don't like planning lessons. i know this might seem like a stupid thing to be upset about but the fact is i work very,very hard and i love planning lessons. i have never been late for work in my life.i take full responsibility for all tt in every school i have ever worked in.i give hours and sometimes days making things for class.i am always doing extra jobs to help teachers including making the tt schedule. i never ask them for anything, never bother them.i actually love teaching. i just cannot believe that a woman in her thirties would lie about me and blacken my name. thing is she is lovely to my face but stabs me in the back every chance she gets. one of my teachers from this school came with me yesterday and heard all this when i was having tea with kocho. she put them right, said i worked harder than japanese people and was a great teacher. but you know how it is so hard for japanese to change their minds. i feel i can do nothing right. people judge me before they've even met me or worked with me. i am just so shocked she would lie like that, i really am. my work ethic is something i really pride myself on. any thoughs?
what you talking about?
I like the LEAVES man, the LEAVES. I get excited about trees, because im a bit sad like that. not this rain, it's shit.
As for hitting, agree with you Lindsay, problem being that line between whether a parent was right/not right to hit a kid will always be blurry.........who's to say a kid deserved a smack or whether the parent was having a bad day and overreacting? It's ambiguous and thus probelematic eh?
Anyway, the lower yamas of murakami got some snow today! how exciting....what about over by you lot? I know the higher ones have, i can see them over here....but what about the LOWER ones, the LOWER ones, get it?
Come snow, come!!
Only 5 weeks till thailand lins. Gonna be wicked. Was reading up on Cambodia too, there's so many cool things for us to see history-wise, im uber excited.
yippeee
guys what u doing on the holiday and wednesday? (not lins, i know ull be working, ごめん)
xx
oops! sorry guys, didn't mean it to be so long!
hey kell
just read what u wrote after i posted
Fuck man, that's crap. Im not surprised though, it's legendary for people to bitch behind backs huh? i know how frustrated you must feel, but it's nice to know that others are backing you up. Ina few days it wont seem so bad, just head up and keep working. It's a sad fact of life that other get jealous and feel the need to bitch on order to make themselves feel better (that lnidsay is a right skinny ho, its only coz shes on drugs you know)...
Don't dount your other teachers though. if it's blatently obvious that you work hard, i'm pretty sure theyre smart enough to rise above that shit and see that your teacher is just being a bitch. All this 2 faced crap pisses me off so much. There's an older feamle teacher here who has so much respect, but behind her bac they slag her off so much! And the older woman slags other ppl off to me! So, im pretty sure im in the loop somewhere as well.
Dont let it get you down....have a chocolate bar.
p.s. it's xmas soon!
Are you gonna have your crimbo party?
thanks kat. i know you're right. everyone bitches but i would never intentionally hurt/harm another person. plus bitching in school is one thng but form school to school is another. thing is she knows i am a good teacher. i never asked her to do anything for tt and she was always happy with my lessons. i know she gave out my worksheets to other teachers and said they were hers but i was willing to forgive her for that. it is complicated witht his woman. she is really beautiful but very insecure and has told viscous lies and spread rumours about lots of japanese teachers.if i was looking bad she'd be really happy and make comments like "oh, you like terrible! maybe you should put on some makeup!" i can't explain why she is liek this. she's in her thirties and not married but really wants to be. she is one bitter cookie. i knew all this before but she always seemed fine with me. that's also why i am so upseta nd worried. i don't think she will stop at this. plus she is new to my new school so they don't know what she is like. oh i am so sick of thinking about this. let's just not talk about it.
xmas din is a go.i'll send out an email soon.
thanks again kat
xxx
well like u said, shes blatently jealous, and shes picking on the one who cant really stand up for herself....speak enough japanese.
Shall we go shovel dog shit through her letterbox, something to do huh?
ha ha ha ha ha !!! laughing hysterically here! dog shit in her letterbox is good or how about i accidently on purpose trip her up or push her down the stairs?!
f**k her!
you're right about her picking on the gaigin. we are immediately at a disadvantage. it's even hard to explain why i am so upset to my japanese friend and her english is great. good news is the kocho was lovely yesterday. he speaks perfect english,used to be a jte. invited me to his house to meet his wife who also speaks english. if push comes to shuf(sp? shove???) and she does anything really bad i can always go to him directly. hopefully it won't come to that.i'll be fine but could've done without this. it's stressful enough changing schools ya know.
kell,
that's really shit, especially when it's your first few days at a new school and you're meeting everyone for the first time and you're still trying to get used to things.
chances are, the other teachers already know how much of a liar + gossiper she is, since they've probably heard her bitch about others as well. so they probably already take everything she says with a grain of salt. that mixed with the fact that they will realize VERY SOON what a hardworking teacher you are, the rumours will turn themselves around in no time.
but it must still be very frustrating.
i agree with kat about the dog shit. way grosser than tripping her. plus if you trip her it can be traced back to you, while the dog shit can't be. u should even just get kat to do it. she's a mastermind at that kind of stuff (dealing with dog shit)
in other matters, i'm going through a massive peanut butter addiction week. can anyone else sympathize?
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