New Job/ moving again
As usual when there are lots of things to write about, i never seem to write anything. So heres me trying to cath up on the last week.
Fisrt the big news. From April, Ill be a catholic school elementary teacher. Im also going to be moving to the countryside to live in the teachers dorms, almost two hours from tokyo.
The job is better pay than geos with better holidays, however im realising the seriousness of the move. Effectively saying goodbye to tokyo and living in a very different part of japan. There are lots of trees and farms and so far io havnt seen a shop anywhere near the place.
So far this is the cast of characters.
The Father
Doesnt speak english, nods off in the middle of a meeting, smokes like a chimney, Watched my class for five minutes and told me to be more genki like pychotic teacher number # 2. See below.
Psychotic teacher number #1
classic short man syndrome. glint in his eyes that says ...are you looking at me...are you taler than me? I asked him if he was staying another year, he said "hell no" two minutes later i asked what he was plannign on doing after april...he said"why..did somebody tell you i was leaving?" and then proceeded to get increasingly paranoid, asking me what people have been saying as if I would know.
Psychotic Teacher number #2
had an hour long meeting with this man. 58 minutes of which was watching him pace around the room describing as 8 year old girl as an evil genius who has made it her mission to get him fired. During the meeting Teacher number #3 came in and mentioned that although he wasnt supposed to tell anyone, he had heard that psychotic teacher number 1 was leaving. Teacher number 3 then emphasised that Psychotic Teacher number 2 was not supposed to know this. Psychotic teacher number #2 then said it was ok he would tell psychotic teacher #1 that I had told him.
Later, psychotic teacher #2 got angry accused me of sitting in his chair and going through his things when reading the classroom texts for next year.
Anyway...Mike came back this week so today I am moving to Johns house in Omiya, a city about 20 minutes north of Tokyo.
Fisrt the big news. From April, Ill be a catholic school elementary teacher. Im also going to be moving to the countryside to live in the teachers dorms, almost two hours from tokyo.
The job is better pay than geos with better holidays, however im realising the seriousness of the move. Effectively saying goodbye to tokyo and living in a very different part of japan. There are lots of trees and farms and so far io havnt seen a shop anywhere near the place.
So far this is the cast of characters.
The Father
Doesnt speak english, nods off in the middle of a meeting, smokes like a chimney, Watched my class for five minutes and told me to be more genki like pychotic teacher number # 2. See below.
Psychotic teacher number #1
classic short man syndrome. glint in his eyes that says ...are you looking at me...are you taler than me? I asked him if he was staying another year, he said "hell no" two minutes later i asked what he was plannign on doing after april...he said"why..did somebody tell you i was leaving?" and then proceeded to get increasingly paranoid, asking me what people have been saying as if I would know.
Psychotic Teacher number #2
had an hour long meeting with this man. 58 minutes of which was watching him pace around the room describing as 8 year old girl as an evil genius who has made it her mission to get him fired. During the meeting Teacher number #3 came in and mentioned that although he wasnt supposed to tell anyone, he had heard that psychotic teacher number 1 was leaving. Teacher number 3 then emphasised that Psychotic Teacher number 2 was not supposed to know this. Psychotic teacher number #2 then said it was ok he would tell psychotic teacher #1 that I had told him.
Later, psychotic teacher #2 got angry accused me of sitting in his chair and going through his things when reading the classroom texts for next year.
Anyway...Mike came back this week so today I am moving to Johns house in Omiya, a city about 20 minutes north of Tokyo.
posted by Gram at 3:24 AM
2 Comments:
are there any normal people there?
are they western or japanese?
i love that p.t.#2 is spendingso much time in his own head that he thinks an 8 y.o. is masterminding his downfall.
congrats on the job, hope you don't turn into one of them after a year.
who told you I was leaving wigger?
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