Twenty Zero 5 - A year in Pre-View
What's in store for me this year:
- More teaching at a high school with a system that drives me nuts, but each year they promise will get better.
- Some students at the high school who will make me feel it is all worth while.
- More Sundays of wondering what the hell I am gonna do until it's time to go to sleep.
- More Sundays where I wish the day would never end because the light in the forest is stunning.
- Nights spent in bed wondering what I am doing here.
- Nights spent in bed wondering how I am going to leave here.
- Classes that go too fast.
- Classes that go on and on and on and never seem to end and no one wants to talk and it would be so much better if time would just move a little faster but oh god it doesn't and I can tell my students can feel me drowning at the front of my room but they just won't talk why won't they talk this is a conversation class don't they see the irony they ask how to improve their english and then they won't talk arrrgggghhh
- More days of looking at food vendors and wondering what thay weird mass of meat is.
- More hungry days where the food smells delicious but there is no English and no picture to look at, so I move on to the vendor with the mass of mystery meat and get that because I know how to say "Wo Yiao Zigga" (I want this).
- There will countless moments in traffic that make my stomach jump into my throat and I will wonder how the hell that other guy was allowed behind the wheel of that mercedes.
- I hope that there will be countless moments in the mountains where I am the only vehicle on the road and that the sun won't set for a few more hours.
- This year also marks "my last year in Taiwan." I intend to send in my application to the U of c education department in the coming weeks and will return to Canada in the summer to get ready to go back to school.
- I will hopefully finish Gravity's Rainbow. This is a book that I have unsuccessfully tried to read every year since 1997. It's just too damn confusing. My record is page 120. Maybe this year I can motor on through, but I doubt it.
- I am looking forward to better music and movies. 2004 was a crap year for both. With a few fav. bands in the studio it should be a good year, if they don't crap out like most artists did on their 2004 releases.
- More teaching at a high school with a system that drives me nuts, but each year they promise will get better.
- Some students at the high school who will make me feel it is all worth while.
- More Sundays of wondering what the hell I am gonna do until it's time to go to sleep.
- More Sundays where I wish the day would never end because the light in the forest is stunning.
- Nights spent in bed wondering what I am doing here.
- Nights spent in bed wondering how I am going to leave here.
- Classes that go too fast.
- Classes that go on and on and on and never seem to end and no one wants to talk and it would be so much better if time would just move a little faster but oh god it doesn't and I can tell my students can feel me drowning at the front of my room but they just won't talk why won't they talk this is a conversation class don't they see the irony they ask how to improve their english and then they won't talk arrrgggghhh
- More days of looking at food vendors and wondering what thay weird mass of meat is.
- More hungry days where the food smells delicious but there is no English and no picture to look at, so I move on to the vendor with the mass of mystery meat and get that because I know how to say "Wo Yiao Zigga" (I want this).
- There will countless moments in traffic that make my stomach jump into my throat and I will wonder how the hell that other guy was allowed behind the wheel of that mercedes.
- I hope that there will be countless moments in the mountains where I am the only vehicle on the road and that the sun won't set for a few more hours.
- This year also marks "my last year in Taiwan." I intend to send in my application to the U of c education department in the coming weeks and will return to Canada in the summer to get ready to go back to school.
- I will hopefully finish Gravity's Rainbow. This is a book that I have unsuccessfully tried to read every year since 1997. It's just too damn confusing. My record is page 120. Maybe this year I can motor on through, but I doubt it.
- I am looking forward to better music and movies. 2004 was a crap year for both. With a few fav. bands in the studio it should be a good year, if they don't crap out like most artists did on their 2004 releases.
2 Comments:
I agree about the music, most of it was disappointing. And it will be great to have you back, if it's what is right for you.
Cheers, and all the best for the new year.
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Kyle, at 8:36 a.m.
Hi, Doc. I'm glad to read you've stopped worrying. Otherwise your posts about the upcoming crash of the world economy might lead one to believe that you worry.
; )
I thought you'd be interested in the source and original wording of your title quote:
"If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
--Catherine Aird
Happy 2005. Shinyin kwila.
A Neighbor
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