Quote from: yirj17 on October 20, 2016, 03:03:44 pmQuote from: pokute on October 20, 2016, 02:36:47 pmHave you ever gotten a letter addressed to you (either from government/business or personal) and you find it already ripped open on your desk or something at school? It's the letter that has all the financial details of my pension.Every time I've got a letter from NPS (pension office) the admins at my school always open it without my knowledge. Seems a tad unprofessional.I actually just received an NPS letter today. It was sealed but after I opened it a travel teacher from another school saw me looking at my letter and swiped it from my hands to peruse it (out of curiosity?? he's pretty nosy). I would have stern words with anyone who opened my personal mail. That's completely unacceptable.
Quote from: pokute on October 20, 2016, 02:36:47 pmHave you ever gotten a letter addressed to you (either from government/business or personal) and you find it already ripped open on your desk or something at school? It's the letter that has all the financial details of my pension.Every time I've got a letter from NPS (pension office) the admins at my school always open it without my knowledge. Seems a tad unprofessional.I actually just received an NPS letter today. It was sealed but after I opened it a travel teacher from another school saw me looking at my letter and swiped it from my hands to peruse it (out of curiosity?? he's pretty nosy).
Have you ever gotten a letter addressed to you (either from government/business or personal) and you find it already ripped open on your desk or something at school? It's the letter that has all the financial details of my pension.Every time I've got a letter from NPS (pension office) the admins at my school always open it without my knowledge. Seems a tad unprofessional.
Quote from: grey on October 20, 2016, 08:30:13 pmQuote from: waywardtimelord on October 20, 2016, 08:11:34 pmI "punished" a student by making him stand next to our whiteboard today. It's literally the only punishment available to me. I'm not allowed to send them out of class, keep them in during break, or generally enforce my rules at all. So this kid, a perpetual troublemaker, was balling up paper and throwing it at other students. I told him to stop. He said no. Told him to go stand by the board. I guess I should have been suspicious when he actually complied.... anyway, the rest of the class started laughing, so I turned around and he'd written "F*** YOU! in all caps on the board.If a principal had duties, this would be one of them.Yeah. I would agree. This same student threw his chair across the classroom a few months back. His home room teacher called his mom, who then called me to apologize but also to make sure I knew it was my fault her kid threw the chair. See, he was mad at me for taking his electric eraser away until the end of class....
Quote from: waywardtimelord on October 20, 2016, 08:11:34 pmI "punished" a student by making him stand next to our whiteboard today. It's literally the only punishment available to me. I'm not allowed to send them out of class, keep them in during break, or generally enforce my rules at all. So this kid, a perpetual troublemaker, was balling up paper and throwing it at other students. I told him to stop. He said no. Told him to go stand by the board. I guess I should have been suspicious when he actually complied.... anyway, the rest of the class started laughing, so I turned around and he'd written "F*** YOU! in all caps on the board.If a principal had duties, this would be one of them.
I "punished" a student by making him stand next to our whiteboard today. It's literally the only punishment available to me. I'm not allowed to send them out of class, keep them in during break, or generally enforce my rules at all. So this kid, a perpetual troublemaker, was balling up paper and throwing it at other students. I told him to stop. He said no. Told him to go stand by the board. I guess I should have been suspicious when he actually complied.... anyway, the rest of the class started laughing, so I turned around and he'd written "F*** YOU! in all caps on the board.
Quote from: Kayos on October 20, 2016, 10:50:21 amQuote from: yirj17 on October 20, 2016, 10:43:16 amQuote from: Kayos on October 20, 2016, 10:27:00 amI haven't played much of 1 yet - whenever I fire it up to play, the moment I start I get busy with something and have to turn it off. 4, I have a save near the end, but haven't killed the last boss. I need to grind a bit more, but can't be bothered. 7 is my all-time favourite game, but 6 is pretty decent too.Hah! I was on the moon in 4 and probably at or near the final boss but then my SNES died so I haven't gone back since Since then I've gotten the port for PS1 and the remake for 3DS but haven't returned to it yet. I really enjoyed 4 and 6 and 7 are great but I'm reserving judgement for a favorite until I've at least played most FFs through 10. ^^Also, strawberry jelly is the best jelly.Yeah it is! is anyone else craving jelly now? I'm more of a raspberry fan myself, but my bf's friend brought back a passionfruit basil jelly from Vietnam for me and it's strangely good.
Quote from: yirj17 on October 20, 2016, 10:43:16 amQuote from: Kayos on October 20, 2016, 10:27:00 amI haven't played much of 1 yet - whenever I fire it up to play, the moment I start I get busy with something and have to turn it off. 4, I have a save near the end, but haven't killed the last boss. I need to grind a bit more, but can't be bothered. 7 is my all-time favourite game, but 6 is pretty decent too.Hah! I was on the moon in 4 and probably at or near the final boss but then my SNES died so I haven't gone back since Since then I've gotten the port for PS1 and the remake for 3DS but haven't returned to it yet. I really enjoyed 4 and 6 and 7 are great but I'm reserving judgement for a favorite until I've at least played most FFs through 10. ^^Also, strawberry jelly is the best jelly.Yeah it is! is anyone else craving jelly now?
Quote from: Kayos on October 20, 2016, 10:27:00 amI haven't played much of 1 yet - whenever I fire it up to play, the moment I start I get busy with something and have to turn it off. 4, I have a save near the end, but haven't killed the last boss. I need to grind a bit more, but can't be bothered. 7 is my all-time favourite game, but 6 is pretty decent too.Hah! I was on the moon in 4 and probably at or near the final boss but then my SNES died so I haven't gone back since Since then I've gotten the port for PS1 and the remake for 3DS but haven't returned to it yet. I really enjoyed 4 and 6 and 7 are great but I'm reserving judgement for a favorite until I've at least played most FFs through 10. ^^Also, strawberry jelly is the best jelly.
I haven't played much of 1 yet - whenever I fire it up to play, the moment I start I get busy with something and have to turn it off. 4, I have a save near the end, but haven't killed the last boss. I need to grind a bit more, but can't be bothered. 7 is my all-time favourite game, but 6 is pretty decent too.
Quote from: waywardtimelord on October 20, 2016, 08:37:50 pmQuote from: grey on October 20, 2016, 08:30:13 pmQuote from: waywardtimelord on October 20, 2016, 08:11:34 pmI "punished" a student by making him stand next to our whiteboard today. It's literally the only punishment available to me. I'm not allowed to send them out of class, keep them in during break, or generally enforce my rules at all. So this kid, a perpetual troublemaker, was balling up paper and throwing it at other students. I told him to stop. He said no. Told him to go stand by the board. I guess I should have been suspicious when he actually complied.... anyway, the rest of the class started laughing, so I turned around and he'd written "F*** YOU! in all caps on the board.If a principal had duties, this would be one of them.Yeah. I would agree. This same student threw his chair across the classroom a few months back. His home room teacher called his mom, who then called me to apologize but also to make sure I knew it was my fault her kid threw the chair. See, he was mad at me for taking his electric eraser away until the end of class....Ugh, I had nearly the same sort of problem when I took a students phone and he attacked my desk and kicked in and broke another desk, yet nothing happened to him at all and it wasn't really his fault.
Quote from: HaLo3 on October 20, 2016, 12:12:01 pmQuote from: Kayos on October 20, 2016, 10:50:21 amQuote from: yirj17 on October 20, 2016, 10:43:16 amQuote from: Kayos on October 20, 2016, 10:27:00 amI haven't played much of 1 yet - whenever I fire it up to play, the moment I start I get busy with something and have to turn it off. 4, I have a save near the end, but haven't killed the last boss. I need to grind a bit more, but can't be bothered. 7 is my all-time favourite game, but 6 is pretty decent too.Hah! I was on the moon in 4 and probably at or near the final boss but then my SNES died so I haven't gone back since Since then I've gotten the port for PS1 and the remake for 3DS but haven't returned to it yet. I really enjoyed 4 and 6 and 7 are great but I'm reserving judgement for a favorite until I've at least played most FFs through 10. ^^Also, strawberry jelly is the best jelly.Yeah it is! is anyone else craving jelly now? I'm more of a raspberry fan myself, but my bf's friend brought back a passionfruit basil jelly from Vietnam for me and it's strangely good.Raspberry? RASPBERRY??! :O I can't even take you seriously right now! :OJust kidding, I like all flavours of jelly (that I've tried anyway). :pI'd like to try that passionfruit basil one. I'm not too big on basil, but it sounds interesting.
Eating out is too expensive, and unhealthy, so that's not an option for me.
Quote from: donovan on October 20, 2016, 02:31:02 pmQuote from: moonbrie on October 20, 2016, 02:20:28 pmI find it cheaper, but that's probably because I struggle to eat all the food I buy before it goes bad. Even when I try to only buy a little.The tyranny of veggies in the fridge! Even when you want to eat out you can't because you gotta get through the tomatoes before they go bad! (never put tomatoes in the fridge, btw)I bought a bunch of bananas on Tuesday to eat at school since I'm crap at packing lunch and everyone seems to be getting concerned over me not eating lunch.I already know I'm not going to get through all of them before they turn brown, because while I thought I could eat two bananas per day I've only been eating one
Quote from: moonbrie on October 20, 2016, 02:20:28 pmI find it cheaper, but that's probably because I struggle to eat all the food I buy before it goes bad. Even when I try to only buy a little.The tyranny of veggies in the fridge! Even when you want to eat out you can't because you gotta get through the tomatoes before they go bad! (never put tomatoes in the fridge, btw)
I find it cheaper, but that's probably because I struggle to eat all the food I buy before it goes bad. Even when I try to only buy a little.
Quote from: jomi on October 20, 2016, 07:38:31 amIt's that time of the year I get ridiculously anxious about my review and whether or not I can renew my contract! YAy.I have had no problems in this school and no issues with my coteachers, they seem happy with me (aside from one KT who is an extrovert and really wants me to be the same way and I'm not. I pass on most socialisation. Not because I don't like them but because after a certain point in my day I just want to be alone because I'm exhausted by having to play the smiley happy foreigner). But just because they seem satisfied with me doesn't mean they are. I don't trust that they are going to come up with a bunch of problems they have with me that they have never communicated before.On a somewhat related note I seem to be entering a depression. I am possibly in a near constant state of depression (I'm very high functioning, it makes absolutely no impact on my ability to work. I mostly just shut down socially) but it has crept up on me. I'm so tired and unmotivated. It's annoying.That's rough. I can relate.Does anyone else go hard all day at work and deliver that primo quality teaching life, and then you get home and you're just fried and exhausted. Every. Day. And then you still have to do laundry, dishes, grocery shopping, etc, and every day is exactly the same, and you're exhausted forever?
It's that time of the year I get ridiculously anxious about my review and whether or not I can renew my contract! YAy.I have had no problems in this school and no issues with my coteachers, they seem happy with me (aside from one KT who is an extrovert and really wants me to be the same way and I'm not. I pass on most socialisation. Not because I don't like them but because after a certain point in my day I just want to be alone because I'm exhausted by having to play the smiley happy foreigner). But just because they seem satisfied with me doesn't mean they are. I don't trust that they are going to come up with a bunch of problems they have with me that they have never communicated before.On a somewhat related note I seem to be entering a depression. I am possibly in a near constant state of depression (I'm very high functioning, it makes absolutely no impact on my ability to work. I mostly just shut down socially) but it has crept up on me. I'm so tired and unmotivated. It's annoying.
It isso******rudeto hear your name over and over again in conversation and be treated like you aren't sitting two feet away
Quote from: #basedcowboyshirt on October 20, 2016, 03:06:58 pmWhy weren't your bananas in the fridge?Never put bananas in the fridge (for different reasons than tomatoes)!!!!
Why weren't your bananas in the fridge?
Quote from: #basedcowboyshirt on October 20, 2016, 01:59:53 pmEating out is too expensive, and unhealthy, so that's not an option for me.I don't have the korean ability to eat out. Where I am, the only places with an English menu are: Mcdonalds, Dominoes, Pizza hut, and Lotteria. A few places have pictures, but I'm a very fussy eater, so I need to know what is going into / onto my food. So I cook for myself so I know I'll enjoy it, and know that it will be (reasonably) healthy.Saturday night I usually have Dominoes, but every other night I cook for myself. A pizza a week is good for the soul.
Saturday night I usually have Dominoes, but every other night I cook for myself. A pizza a week is good for the soul.
Quote from: Kayos on October 21, 2016, 09:15:30 amSaturday night I usually have Dominoes, but every other night I cook for myself. A pizza a week is good for the soul. So corny. Like, literally corny.
Quote from: CO2 on October 21, 2016, 09:59:29 amQuote from: Kayos on October 21, 2016, 09:15:30 amSaturday night I usually have Dominoes, but every other night I cook for myself. A pizza a week is good for the soul. So corny. Like, literally corny.There may literally be corn on that pizza.
Is reviewing not a thing here?Me: Ok, let's look at page 114.*puzzled looks from students and CTMe: Oh sorry, 114 not 140.*more puzzled looks and some murmuringMe: Yes, page 114. One one four.*CT scrunches up her face and comes over to check the page with meThe students finally tell me that we already did that page.I just wanted to review the material, sheesh
Quote from: yirj17 on October 21, 2016, 10:07:47 amQuote from: CO2 on October 21, 2016, 09:59:29 amQuote from: Kayos on October 21, 2016, 09:15:30 amSaturday night I usually have Dominoes, but every other night I cook for myself. A pizza a week is good for the soul. So corny. Like, literally corny.There may literally be corn on that pizza.On the pizza I get, there is literally corn on it.