Saturday, September 18, 2010

Schools Stuffs

It looks like I will be going to two Sports festivals in the next week or so. ^_^

Oh, and I regrettably can't tell you what schools either. The place where I am mainly based informed me (in a general information session, don't worry I'm not in trouble) that I am not supposed to talk about school outside of school. Jeez, you'd think I'd joined fight club or something. Anyway, I'm not actually clear on what they were trying to communicate because the words they were saying didn't quite jive with the Japanese writing before me. Basically, the Japanese was saying that outside of school, I am not allowed to complain, talk about specific students, or spread evil rumors about the schools where I am working.

However, what it seemed like they were saying was more general. I was being told all this in a mixture of English and Japanese because they were trying to be accommadating. What it sounded like they were saying in English was that I was not allowed to say anything period about the inner workings of school, the people there, or anything. Anyway, because the Japanese writing just reffered to negatives, I am just going to play around the edge between the two, I guess. Meaning I am going to use the contractural writing as a line in the sand never to cross.

So, as far as talking about class or school, well, I guess I just have to be really really vague, and only report the positive? Meh, I think I can do that. As soon as something more interesting than, “oh this one girl in class said that I was lazy and that she was crazy. Then she decided I was crazy too.” Or “This guy in class has decided that I think he's the best student in class because I keep asking him to answer questions.” I don't know, they seem only slightly better material than was is usually spewed in tweets.

That's about enough rambling today.

2 comments:

  1. I see you have encountered one of the more interesting aspects of being an ALT. Just a reminder, your BOE, "supervisor", etc. can't dictate what you do outside of working hours. As I have learned, ignoring such things is perfectly fine as other Japanese teachers get drunk at izakayas together and complain about their schools. You have nothing to worry about.

    Tom

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  2. Yeah, should have been more clear. It was really funny because the entire time this was going on the boss-man was practically telling me just not to do it publicly. lol.

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