The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
What a week it's been. It started out pretty good and quickly went downhill. We had a good day on Sunday. It was cloudy all day, but never rained. We managed to catch a taxi to E-Mart and back all by ourselves and both drivers understood what our destination was without me having to repeat myself. The taxi drivers here seem to drive by there own set of rules. Hell, the whole country does, but taxi drivers even more so. At the intersection at E-Mart there must have been thirty cars waiting in the left lane to turn. Our driver just pulled in front of the first car and made a u-turn. We arrived with a sense of accomplishment. It was nice to know that we're able to get in a taxi and get to at least one place by ourselves.
Wednesday started out good, but turn bad quickly. C has a conversation class every Wednesday with a parent of one of the children from school. Her student invited us out for lunch that day which we enjoyed. I felt a little bad when she insisted on paying for the meal when i'm pretty sure she was also still paying for the conversation class. From the little i know about Korean culture i think it is rude not to accept food or a gift.
C had been having problems with her first (everyday) class not listening and always bitching about how the other teacher was better. I think some of the girls have even called her fat to her face. On Wednesday she had too much of the them and she started to cry at work. It's not her fault she's sensitive. She has two really good supportive parents. If she had two selfish assholes that seem to go out of there way to make you feel like shit, like i have had for 27 years, she would be able to let it roll off her back or dish it back. Everyone at the school was supportive of C, but the problem wasn't solved for her. She said that night that if she was here by herself she would have headed back to Canada that night. I've had several kids make fun of my nose, my balding head, or called me "golem". At first i ignored it, but it happened so frequently that i've started to dish it back at the little brats. Since then it's started to calm down for me. Now they do it in Korean.
It ended up getting pretty ugly today. Classes hadn't even started and the shit hit the fan. Some kids show up to class over an hour early and just hang out (free babysitting) and pester the teachers. C had the two troublemakers in her bad class show up. While i was in her class talking to C the two girls started tag teaming her. One little bitch started calling her ugly and pointed and laughed. Then they said she was a pig. I had seen enough and attempted to step in between them without getting physical so C could get away from the abuse, but they were like hyenas trying to get in her face. When they finally stepped out of the room i locked the door. I could see on C's face something had to be done, even though she didn't want to admit defeat. Instead of throwing the spoiled little bastards out the window i decided to talk to the head teacher in private. He talked to the kids and told them it would have to stop or they would either have to leave the school or have their parents come in and apologize. After the little bastards had their lecture C had a much better day than Wednesday. If they do it again i'll physically remove the girls if it come to that. C didn't sign up for that shit.
-insomniac out.
Wednesday started out good, but turn bad quickly. C has a conversation class every Wednesday with a parent of one of the children from school. Her student invited us out for lunch that day which we enjoyed. I felt a little bad when she insisted on paying for the meal when i'm pretty sure she was also still paying for the conversation class. From the little i know about Korean culture i think it is rude not to accept food or a gift.
C had been having problems with her first (everyday) class not listening and always bitching about how the other teacher was better. I think some of the girls have even called her fat to her face. On Wednesday she had too much of the them and she started to cry at work. It's not her fault she's sensitive. She has two really good supportive parents. If she had two selfish assholes that seem to go out of there way to make you feel like shit, like i have had for 27 years, she would be able to let it roll off her back or dish it back. Everyone at the school was supportive of C, but the problem wasn't solved for her. She said that night that if she was here by herself she would have headed back to Canada that night. I've had several kids make fun of my nose, my balding head, or called me "golem". At first i ignored it, but it happened so frequently that i've started to dish it back at the little brats. Since then it's started to calm down for me. Now they do it in Korean.
It ended up getting pretty ugly today. Classes hadn't even started and the shit hit the fan. Some kids show up to class over an hour early and just hang out (free babysitting) and pester the teachers. C had the two troublemakers in her bad class show up. While i was in her class talking to C the two girls started tag teaming her. One little bitch started calling her ugly and pointed and laughed. Then they said she was a pig. I had seen enough and attempted to step in between them without getting physical so C could get away from the abuse, but they were like hyenas trying to get in her face. When they finally stepped out of the room i locked the door. I could see on C's face something had to be done, even though she didn't want to admit defeat. Instead of throwing the spoiled little bastards out the window i decided to talk to the head teacher in private. He talked to the kids and told them it would have to stop or they would either have to leave the school or have their parents come in and apologize. After the little bastards had their lecture C had a much better day than Wednesday. If they do it again i'll physically remove the girls if it come to that. C didn't sign up for that shit.
-insomniac out.
posted by insomniac at 4:07 a.m.
1 Comments:
How horrible! That lecture had better stay with the kids. It is unbelievable what kids think they can get away with. Thank goodness that the head teacher stepped up to the plate.
I hope that those girls learned a lesson and that C has a better week! :)
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