nothing at all

Long damn weekend, long damn day.  Saturday was supposed to be my big day of fun and excitement, but it turned into a cluster.   WTF is up with that?   Today, my boss at the part time place lets me know that he is not paying me for the first day I worked, because I did not teach.   So, I sat and listened all the other teachers classes for three hours, against my will, for free.  Then, after that, the idiot calls me to take over another two classes on my day off because someone called in sick    What do you think I told him?  I have plans-BIG plans that I cannot cancel.  I will be sitting at Starbucks for an hour or so, followed by my watching a movie at home alone.   Screw them!  I am already working one more day a week than agreed, and filling in for him on call when he needs it.  You want to save some money?  Well, save it tonight by not having any teachers to pay.  

                       

Anyway, today was rough, but by my first class I was feeling human again.  Now I just feel like a tired human, instead of some weird half dead demon thing.   Improvement!  Anyway, back to the grind; I have to sit at my desk and read a book about John Rabe.  Great cat; you should check him out.   It is a hard life, but somebody gotta do it.

HOW OLD ARE YOU?

Sitting in the staff room, pretending I am working!  Just got done with my second second grade class today.   Great kids, nice teacher too, but she drives me nuts when I am working.  She always translates EVERYTHING I say, tries to run the class, and gives the students the answers without giving them time to think.   I like to count to for; she doesn't wait long enough to count.  Oh well.

New job is going well, it is easy as being the only boy in an all girls school, and I am getting paid like a mad man.   Also, I am teaching at a company in the city I live in, so I am meeting working folk in my area.  The company is KTX, and they make plastic stuff for cars-moldings, etc…  Hopefully it will continue to work out well.  I like the money very much, and it is only 4 hours a week.

 

Today is going to be a long day though.  I go from work to work, and then it is on the train to Nagoya to meet a friend in Sakae for a drink or two-starting at 9.  I am already hung over from last night too!   Imagine yourself tired and hung over, and then insert 40 kids screaming 1, 2, 3…12 about fifty times at the top of their lungs.  Yes, the second grade did numbers today, and how old are you?   How very exciting!

money money money!

Hey all...FYI, I do not have internet again.  The damn free wifi once again proved there no such thing as a free lunch.  Oh well.  I signed up for internet again, but it is going to be a few weeks until it gets all set up.  After that, however, there should be no further interuptions to the free flow of information between me and everyone else.  Same crap different day here, but I might nailed a part time gig teaching english to a companies employees.  45 bucks an hour, 32 hours a month.  Nice chunk of change to make my paying for internet seem cheaper.  I am cool with that, cause internet here is 50 some bucks a month!  Assholes.  Anyway, nothing is for sure on that gig until I get the first check, so I will let you know!  Anyway, see ya round the world!  RR

Kids playing in the park outside my window...

On a hot damn day. It is still hot at 5! Today was the day that would not end. I had 4 classes-one 5th and 3 1st grade, starting right off the bat at 855. So I was done teaching by 2, and I get off at 430. I sat and read for two hours, trying not to sleep! I like it better when I get my first class 2nd period. Then I study for an hour before I work, and read for an hour-or play with the kids, after my last class. It is a much better schedule.

I am getting ready to jump in the shower now; I am going to a school party at some restaurant. They are picking me up because, I suspect, they want to get the foreign guy drunk. It should be fun, but I am so tired from SITTING ON MY ASS FOR TWO HOURS that I just want to sleep. Work is hell eh?