maybe i'm just a weenie, or maybe spending a workday playing with elementary school kids who are excited about learning (and knowing that this term i will have my love stripped from me by a new ALT while i am sentenced to an eternity with those apathetic bastards at the chu) has made me emotional, but i'd be liar if you i said you didn't almost get a tear out of me at the end there. *cough, cough* throats a little clogged up.
fuck AJET and their cookie cutter bullshit and wanting to make japan look like heaven on earth.
yes, girlfriends!! let's!! do having fun!! (japan has killed my english skills...)
well, if you go sometime after 6pm, there is a chance i may be there, but today is apartment hunting time. gotta get out of this underwear factory!! i am, of course, going on thursday, so be there or be square.
I think you should go into script writing. I can never tell if your blog entries are real or a crock of ficticious shit you make up :) There's always such drama, lol. Is Susan Lucci vying for another Emmy?
Funny that this is about culture shock because helping poor souls manage such malaise is part of my job. More interestingly, you mentioned intercultural communication which is really the rice paddy I slave in.
16yo bad boys, so hot! i love bad boys!
ALT = american lang teacher? altruistic lickable twink? :) annoying lanky twat? :)
lastly, so how big is ALT's genital? *zocalo snickers like a haro taro girl*
nono! rarely *fictious*, but usually *enhanced* for dramatic purposes. did i REALLY sit down and write that letter and then at the last moment experience salvation in the form of a prancing school girl?! well, no. but did i REALLY struggle with all those kinds of students, and experience every emotional hardship described, and then, rather than fall into a black pit of depression, i focused my energy into a therapeutic creative writing project that allowed me to (re)discover the one thing that gives purpose to my job?! of course, yes.
everything is always real, in some form or another. but rather than writing a "free-flow" diary type of journal (i did this and i did that), i structure it so that it comes out more like an autobiographical memoir that others would want to read for pleasure/entertainment.
also, alt means assistant language teacher. jte, another one i used, means japanese teacher of english.
and as for your last question..... well, i gotta keep some things secret.... for now [nudge nudge]
i just read some other people's comments below and i see that i'm not the only person who thought you seriously submitted it as an essay...actually i thought about it for few min only, but these other people think you're for real! lol
i guessed so much that you did experience all the above incidents but you dramatized it :) i don't think i have your energy to do that for my blog entries....too much brain time required :)
oh dear sweet jeezus! I DID SUBMIT THIS AS AN ESSAY!! hahaha!
let's go through this simply.
JET has an essay contest. subject: the JET experience. i write an essay. it's pseudo-fictitious. it's about a teacher who is fed up, writes a letter to his successor about the troubles of life (based on my own troubles) and then realizes his salvation lies in the image of a good girl (based on actual students of mine). then, i submitted this essay to the committee. i lost. i posted it here to say "fuck you anyway, JET!"
Excellent. Is it okay with you if I distribute this (with credit, of course) to some incoming and returning JETs? I think that this is an important thing you've written here and more people should see it, even if the smarmy AJET fucks don't agree and/or can't grasp the subtle push here to focus on the positive relationships that are established rather than obsess about the negative parts of the job.
ne'er a truer word was spoken. and our mr cranch is one in a million. loved lots and, well, if the AJET idoits can't appreciate the message he is portraying, well, that is their loss and they are only adding to the culture shock by making it seem perfect when it isn't.
Great work. If you want to post it in JET circles, there's space on BigDaikon.com for JET essays. Tons of newbies scan the archives looking for things just like this.
i was thinking just as much.... but last time i submitted an essay to bd (a very short anecdote about the time i saw a cow getting fisted) they never got back to me.... hmmmm, i wonder why.....
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maybe i'm just a weenie, or maybe spending a workday playing with elementary school kids who are excited about learning (and knowing that this term i will have my love stripped from me by a new ALT while i am sentenced to an eternity with those apathetic bastards at the chu) has made me emotional, but i'd be liar if you i said you didn't almost get a tear out of me at the end there. *cough, cough* throats a little clogged up.
fuck AJET and their cookie cutter bullshit and wanting to make japan look like heaven on earth.
your story was amazing.
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we might even be going today [wink wink]
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well, if you go sometime after 6pm, there is a chance i may be there, but today is apartment hunting time. gotta get out of this underwear factory!! i am, of course, going on thursday, so be there or be square.
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Funny that this is about culture shock because helping poor souls manage such malaise is part of my job. More interestingly, you mentioned intercultural communication which is really the rice paddy I slave in.
16yo bad boys, so hot! i love bad boys!
ALT = american lang teacher? altruistic lickable twink? :)
annoying lanky twat? :)
lastly, so how big is ALT's genital? *zocalo snickers like a haro taro girl*
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everything is always real, in some form or another. but rather than writing a "free-flow" diary type of journal (i did this and i did that), i structure it so that it comes out more like an autobiographical memoir that others would want to read for pleasure/entertainment.
also, alt means assistant language teacher. jte, another one i used, means japanese teacher of english.
and as for your last question..... well, i gotta keep some things secret.... for now [nudge nudge]
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drama, drawma, drama, drawma, ....
i just read some other people's comments below and i see that i'm not the only person who thought you seriously submitted it as an essay...actually i thought about it for few min only, but these other people think you're for real! lol
i guessed so much that you did experience all the above incidents but you dramatized it :) i don't think i have your energy to do that for my blog entries....too much brain time required :)
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let's go through this simply.
JET has an essay contest. subject: the JET experience. i write an essay. it's pseudo-fictitious. it's about a teacher who is fed up, writes a letter to his successor about the troubles of life (based on my own troubles) and then realizes his salvation lies in the image of a good girl (based on actual students of mine). then, i submitted this essay to the committee. i lost. i posted it here to say "fuck you anyway, JET!"
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Yeah, fuck da man. And make him like it, too...
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But that was awesome. Except it had hope at the end. But I guess a little creativity can't hurt.
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i see that you are hurting inside, my dear.
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