Whispy flurries dusting a sugar coating on the ground below. Wish I could go play *laments being ‘responsible grown-up figure* Snowing up you way, whitmanschild? I guess you probably woke up to snow resilient enough to stay on the ground. Somehow the cold is so much more bearable if it’s pretty. EDIT: So, I’m not […]
Category Archives: The ALT life
and today is my last day at Nishiwaki before they do. I just said good-bye to my favourite student. 🙁 It seems like yesterday that she approached my desk, trying desperately to translate Gosurori to English. Fortunately I’d already encountered the katakanaised ‘Gothic Lolita’ and from there our conversations began. She was fascinated to learn […]
Ironically, I have a health exam at school this week. Can’t wait to hear how healthy they think I am! I’ve been given a sheet to fill out, accompanied by the translation. The translation is just too amusing to keep for my eyes alone. Here are some yes/no statements: I feel some abnormalities somewhere I […]
unfortunately the last three are reserved for the second years – whom I f’ing hate teaching. Remember at school when there were always a couple of kids who would not work and would talk all the time and not listen to anything said. Now reverse the ratios. That’s right, the majority of the second years […]
We had one of our oh-so-rare meetings with our supervisor today. There are five of us working for this BOE, yet I hardly see any of the others. After the meeting, which I’m sure broke the record for shortest meeting ever (10 min), I was telling the others about yesterday. I found out from Rhiannon […]
