I'm really looking forward to explaining to my computer-illiterate non-english speaking co-teacher that the computer screen upstairs and my computer downstairs are both fucked.It's the touch screen upstairs that has the problem and I don't think she understands touch screen since she always touches the screen and gets shocked when the slides move.
Quote from: Pennypie on January 13, 2017, 09:41:59 amFirst day back after my trip home. Walk in to find 2 live birds and one dead bird in the English classroom. They wont put the heating on because there are no students and they suggest I move to one of the homerooms because they can control the heating themselves. Probably moving schools in March but no one can give me an answer until...probably end of Feb. Co-teacher said she's 99% sure I will have to move main schools but doesn't know about the rest. Unless things changed from last year, in which case she isn't actually sure. Coordinator is a damp squib so no point asking him. Why. For once I was really happy with my schools and they are happy with me. Before the vacation the principal asked me if i planned to stay with this school for the new semester...how the **** do you not know its not my choice. FML Sorry to hear that Pennypie. Sadly, there is no sentiment in the Korean education system. I had the same two countryside middle schools for seven years, then they cut all middle school teachers in the province. Loved the students and the tiny towns I worked in. Got moved to a hell of an elementary school. Thanks!! Now after a trip through girls middle now at a girls high school and couldn't be happier. It really is a roller coaster, but on a positive note can show how you work in adversity. Ups and downs, ups and downs. Hope things work out in 2017!!
First day back after my trip home. Walk in to find 2 live birds and one dead bird in the English classroom. They wont put the heating on because there are no students and they suggest I move to one of the homerooms because they can control the heating themselves. Probably moving schools in March but no one can give me an answer until...probably end of Feb. Co-teacher said she's 99% sure I will have to move main schools but doesn't know about the rest. Unless things changed from last year, in which case she isn't actually sure. Coordinator is a damp squib so no point asking him. Why. For once I was really happy with my schools and they are happy with me. Before the vacation the principal asked me if i planned to stay with this school for the new semester...how the **** do you not know its not my choice. FML
The next two days I have to work on editing kids articles for the English newspaper and I wish they would just write about dumb stuff instead of what they have written about because this is hard. My coteacher is telling me not to take it so seriously, it's just the English newspaper, but the thing is if I don't understand the facts (or non-facts) that my students are trying to get across, it's impossible for me to understand how to edit their articles.Just spent a good amount of time trying to understand a student's writing that was saying something like "Japanese history books say Ahn Jung-Geun was an assassin, but Ito had the blood of Koreans on his hands, so why is he not considered an assassin too?" Uh well... because he's not an assassin, as far as I know. He didn't personally hold a gun and shoot any Korean politicians or activists, which would mean he is factually not an assassin. You could call him a murderer, sure, but not an assassin. So I proposed changing the word "assassin" to murderer, but my coteacher didn't like that. Ahn Jung-Geun wasn't a murderer! How could you say that! Well, he did kill someone. According to the definition of murderer, he is one. Oh, but Koreans don't consider him a murderer. Well, this article is talking about JAPANESE perception of Korean history, not what Koreans think. Is murderer too emotionally charged? Do you want me to change it to killer? No, no, he's a... martyr, yeah, that's the word. But... Japanese people don't consider him a martyr, and this is about the Japanese perception, and also one is not a martyr because they killed someone, they are a martyr because they died. 12 more articles to go
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