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Friday, December 18, 2009

I'm a sick one today

I caught a cold from one of my students, I know it. They sneeze and cough and leak nose goo all over the place, and it got to me. I'm always very self-pitying when I have a cold - I hate it, and today at work was brutal. My last two classes are full of awful middle school kids who really don't give a shit about learning, which makes the end of my Friday workday tough. The last two Fridays I've found myself doing quite a bit of yelling in class.

Today I didn't have the energy - I just felt beat up by the time 6:30 rolled around. To my surprise the class was very well behaved today, relatively. I found out how to inspire fear in them. Yelling doesn't do shit - you have to not smile. I just frowned my way through class and found that it inspired fear/respect. Fantastic.

Here's my daily pic: garlic chips from the grocery. I like the '30% Fat Down' in the corner. They were surprisingly buttery, but decent.

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5 comments:

  1. UnknownDecember 19, 2009 at 12:32 AM

    that's not an ashtray in the picture, is it?

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  2. AnonymousDecember 19, 2009 at 8:22 AM

    Can you hit your students or give them physical punishments in Korea?

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  3. Joe D.December 19, 2009 at 8:58 AM

    Yelling and frowning are the shit. You're learning!

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  4. WillDecember 19, 2009 at 9:05 AM

    Sheila - technically I can but it's frowned up on for us gringitos to hit the children, nor would I want to.

    The most common punishment is having them stand with their hands raised above their head. The punishment worse than that is kneeling with hands raised - like you just got out of a police car and the cop yelled 'Hands up! Get down!'

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  5. kitDecember 19, 2009 at 6:18 PM

    I guess you would probably be yelling hands up, pants down. Zing!

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