Season�s Greetings
I am sure you are all having a great holiday season. Over here it feels like any other day. Seriously. They play Christmas music in stores and there are decorations set up, but without snow it seems wrong that it is Christmas time. The holiday season finds me relaxed and doing well.
As I mentioned in my previous letter I am no longer employed at Walton�s English School. What happened is this:
The parents of the students in one of my classes are all teachers at the same school. And from day one they have all had various things to say about my teaching style. Each week I was getting different feed back from different parents. One would say that they wanted a focus on writing. So my boss would ask me to focus on writing. But then another parent would just worry about reading. So my boss would tell me to focus on reading. Then another parent would tell my boss that they want me to focus on conversation. As they say you can�t please all of the people all of the time. So at any given time I had at least one parent who was not happy with my teaching. And then there is Lucy�s mother. I honestly believe that she thinks she is god�s gift to teaching. Each time I would assign homework her daughter would do it differently from the way I had assigned. So I would ask Lucy why it was wrong (or not the way I had assigned) and all she would say is: mommy say no. So I would tell her she had to do her homework again so that she did it right. I am sure her mom wasn�t happy with that, but I have to have some semblance of authority in the classroom, right?
And so after a few months of this the parents decided that they no longer wanted me as their childrens� teacher. They told my boss that either I go, or the kids go. So my boss had to let me go. So as of December 14th I was no longer employed there.
The good thing that come of this is that I now have time off to travel and see some of the island. Plus I am technically getting paid as we speak. When I started at Walton�s Jeff (my boss) kept 30 hours of my pay so that I couldn�t quit without giving him notice. The pay he kept works out to being 3 more hours than I would have been paid for this month if I had continued to work there. So like I said I am technically getting paid even though I don�t work there. And then in January a friend of mine is going to work on a movie, so I will be taking over his private classes. About 15 hours a week. And when he gets back it will be Chinese New Year, and hopefully a trip to Thailand. And then after that it will be the start of a new semester and finding a teaching job will be easier than falling off of a chair. So I have no worries about money or jobs right now. I�m just chillin� and relaxin�.
I hope all of you are in favourable moods and conditions as the year comes to a close. So please allow me to wish you all a wonderful non-secular specific time of year and I will be in contact before we see 2002.
Merry Christmas
Happy Chanukah
Good Day
I am sure you are all having a great holiday season. Over here it feels like any other day. Seriously. They play Christmas music in stores and there are decorations set up, but without snow it seems wrong that it is Christmas time. The holiday season finds me relaxed and doing well.
As I mentioned in my previous letter I am no longer employed at Walton�s English School. What happened is this:
The parents of the students in one of my classes are all teachers at the same school. And from day one they have all had various things to say about my teaching style. Each week I was getting different feed back from different parents. One would say that they wanted a focus on writing. So my boss would ask me to focus on writing. But then another parent would just worry about reading. So my boss would tell me to focus on reading. Then another parent would tell my boss that they want me to focus on conversation. As they say you can�t please all of the people all of the time. So at any given time I had at least one parent who was not happy with my teaching. And then there is Lucy�s mother. I honestly believe that she thinks she is god�s gift to teaching. Each time I would assign homework her daughter would do it differently from the way I had assigned. So I would ask Lucy why it was wrong (or not the way I had assigned) and all she would say is: mommy say no. So I would tell her she had to do her homework again so that she did it right. I am sure her mom wasn�t happy with that, but I have to have some semblance of authority in the classroom, right?
And so after a few months of this the parents decided that they no longer wanted me as their childrens� teacher. They told my boss that either I go, or the kids go. So my boss had to let me go. So as of December 14th I was no longer employed there.
The good thing that come of this is that I now have time off to travel and see some of the island. Plus I am technically getting paid as we speak. When I started at Walton�s Jeff (my boss) kept 30 hours of my pay so that I couldn�t quit without giving him notice. The pay he kept works out to being 3 more hours than I would have been paid for this month if I had continued to work there. So like I said I am technically getting paid even though I don�t work there. And then in January a friend of mine is going to work on a movie, so I will be taking over his private classes. About 15 hours a week. And when he gets back it will be Chinese New Year, and hopefully a trip to Thailand. And then after that it will be the start of a new semester and finding a teaching job will be easier than falling off of a chair. So I have no worries about money or jobs right now. I�m just chillin� and relaxin�.
I hope all of you are in favourable moods and conditions as the year comes to a close. So please allow me to wish you all a wonderful non-secular specific time of year and I will be in contact before we see 2002.
Merry Christmas
Happy Chanukah
Good Day
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