My new school

Alright, this isn't necessarily going to be a post of rainbows and unicorns but let me introduce my new school. I found a movie which almost perfectly illustrates how I feel when I wake up in the morning and realize that it's Tuesday or Thursday:


http://fourfour.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/ulpathy.gif

Thanks Rich.

It's not that the school itself is located precisely near the mouth of hell... but sometimes I wonder why there isn't a teenage-d vampire hunter prowling around the grounds to help me. I can't even tell if they're just like that because they're like that in all of their classes or if they (rightly so) believe that they'll never use English in their daily lives in the future (even McDonalds employees get to flip over to an English menu so they're saved the embarrassment of speaking the language they've learned for six years) so why should they bother listening to me in class? Paradoxically the students LOVE talking to me outside of class. Many of them haven't appeared to figure out that if they only paid attention in class more then they would be able to converse with me more. Who am I to judge right?

To be honest the only thing that really affects me about the school is the high rate of violence in class. The students don't bother me exactly but if a certain teacher makes a wrong move or (goodness forbid) takes away someone's cell phone when they've been shouting at the top of their lungs into it then all hell breaks loose and I end up wondering if I'm physically safe.

It's not impossible but it's certainly trying.

The one thing that keeps me going back are the friendly students who, despite their classmates yelling and goofing off around them, diligently try to do the work and try to use their English with me. I'll keep you posted but I wanted to just let it out here.