Sigh !!!Onnut in your haste to discredit me (imagine going through all my past posts to do that, you must be bored) your reading skills let you down.This is what I wrote:The weather, hot? Obviously you have never been to South Africa in summer, Taiwan is cool compared to some parts of eastern and northern South Africa.Note the bold part. I said 'Taiwan is cool compared to SOME parts of SA', not all.Let me elaborate. If you travel to the north coast of Natal in summer, the humidity plus heat make Taiwan and Korea seem cool. If you travel to the north-eastern area of SA, known as the Lowveld, let me assure you that it is way hotter than either of the aforementioned places. Let me give you some personal examples. During the 1980's I was stationed in a town then called Messina, on the border between SA and Zimbabwe with the SA military for 3 months, July to September (winter/autumn) and the temperature never dropped below 30 degrees. I went back to that same area in the summer of that year for a vacation and on Christmas Day it was 48 degrees. The hottest recorded temperature at the military base was 52 degrees. So you can see my point. If you have ever travelled to those areas you will know what I am talking about.Now, please tell me what all this has got to do with Korea and a/c's and Taiwan coping with fans? I think even with the most basic knowledge of a bit of Geography you would know that Taiwan and Korea are pretty similar places in summer. I would say Taiwan is a tad hotter but that is not important to this point.Way to derail my comment.
Wait... did you just tell a South African he's never been to South Africa? No. I copied and pasted Confusedsaffer's previous statement in a thread where I was making the argument that Taiwan had a hot summer, and he was adamant that it did not. I was surprised after all the effort he went to rebut my assertion that Taiwan summer was very hot, that he is now on here talking about Taiwan having a hot summer. It was just a little cheeky fun, but I see he has gone overboard as usual in his response.
I obviously didn't need to go through your posts. I went through my posts. When it benefitted your argument Taiwan was cool and didn't have a hot summer. When you want to join in on the current a/c in the classroom discussion Taiwan is now hot. Got it. How does one derail a comment? And are your comments not open to scrutiny? And as for derailing a thread, this thread is titled the Ranting?Venting Megathread. How could it possibly be derailed since its stated purpose is basically anything goes?
Oh my f'ing gawd, if one more of my friends or family members tries to tell me Bill Gates started the virus to control the entire human population. GTFOH!!!
charisma on command is a truly cringey youtube channel, my dude
Currently sitting in my office where super loud construction has been going on all morning. Why can't we all just work from home???
It's Teachers' Day today. There are no students. But we have an event today at 10am, where all the teachers will get flowers in a ceremony. During these times, this all seems just a bit wonky. I dunno partly it seems a little self-congratulatory, when what I've seen from most teachers this year is just laziness. Just finding videos and posting them for students to watch with no feedback doesn't really smack of something to 'celebrate'. Maybe I'm just being a twatface. I won't be attending, as there are just some ceremonies I couldn't give a shit about, and this is one of them more so this year. Students present? Okay. No students, no thanks!
This is a sore spot at my school. The English Dept is expected to make these amazing Pre-recorded videos for every grade, every week, as well as teach live classes per week. So, us native teachers have been doing that, and the Korean English teachers have just been uploading a couple worksheets, and sitting in on the live class (no teaching, and no making videos). It's hard work. A higher work load than normal classes, and it peeved me our manager was skeptical of our hour sheets we handed in for the month (as we put down a few more than we usually would due to the extra work)
Right. Pile of wannk. And yours is a private elementary where the expectations should be higher. It's just seen to be doing the bare minimum, which is double shit, chips and peas. I met with my old middle school co-teacher friend a couple of weeks ago and he said he'd set some work for the students to give in when they came back. 'Are you gonna check and give them back?' 'What, no, too much work'! And, I know he's a really good teacher in class, but that kind of attitude seems to be very apparent this year. Put the ball in the student's court with the EBS ready-made videos and if they don't watch them then they fall behind. I can't quite wrap my head around that. To me every class is important. You don't get feedback, then the students may as well just watch a film for 50 minutes because they don't need to display that anything has been understood or learnt. All the teachers at my school seem to look younger, go home at 4:30 every day, have 1 or 2 hour coffee breaks for chitchat. Not something to be celebrating the teachers this year.
One would assume the time from May 16th 2019 to the current day includes lots of teaching. Pre Wuhan.
I'm at one of my elementary schools today. It's teacher's day and there are not students here as well.So... a bunch of us stuck on the second floor are buying ourselves chicken and pizza, and we're gonna play uno all afternoon, apparently. Looking forward to it!I brought a tin of pineapple to put on the pizza, just to show my appreciation!
yes, exactly. however, i will say the kids clearly don't give a shit about this, either. i mean, one of my co-workers said he realised have his class were playing minecraft together during his live class. one of my classes collectively decided their webcams suddenly didn't work. oh, and their mics. i was basically talking to myself for the whole class. so i do feel it's a waste of time too, for the most part - especially as i put so much work into making these videos, and half the class doesn't even bother to watch them...it's quite clear that online teaching will never replace real teaching, despite what fruitloops might say!
I brought a tin of pineapple to put on the pizza, just to show my appreciation!
