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RE: Eduventure: The AR Edition - School Chat - Schazer - 04-08-2014
I'm gonna post these here because a) me learning to drive isn't really Goodnewschat however you slice it and b) after Ed's pieces my scrawls are gonna be a disappointment. Oh well!
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RE: Eduventure: The AR Edition - School Chat - Schazer - 10-02-2014
Lmao haven't been in this thread since I started car school, prepare for a Cool Story when I get home
RE: Eduventure: The AR Edition - School Chat - Infrared - 10-02-2014
I didn't even see your comic the first time.
Slightly related but boring story: I considered taking a driving course but decided against it and am currently making preparations to cheat the system and pretty much just paying someone to get me a license. Hurray for corruption!
RE: Eduventure: The AR Edition - School Chat - Schazer - 10-09-2014
I would frankly not be surprised if there were shady ways to get a license in Japan. It's such a damned pain in the butt and I'm glad that two years of a Japanese license qualifies me to swap it over, no problems, for a New Zealand license if/when I move back home.
Also I made that initial post after a really tense meeting with the vice principal at my school re: a truly awful teacher who transferred into the English department, who I sometimes vent about on IRC after an (invariably) crappy class with her where I mostly feel bad for the students afterward.
That's a downer, though, so! Let me tell everyone instead that my kids are great; they're more relaxed around me and will even humour me when I try and get them to think through English questions.
Japanese, like English, has loan words from a bunch of different countries and cultures; unlike English, it's got a separate alphabet for loan words (katakana). This is especially the case in cuisine, as Japan traded with a bunch of different countries before English-speaking colonies made contact.
When I asked some of my first years during cleaning time (who answered "how are you" with "very very hungry") what they had for lunch, they declared "pan". Once I explained that in English, that meant "frying pan" ("furaipan") and we had a different word in English for bread, they spent some time puzzling it through (I gave them hints). It wasn't "bake", and it wasn't "breakfast", but they got there eventually!
Basically my kids are great and I'm glad that, for now, I don't have to worry about how they score on tests or exams or what the fuck ever.
RE: Eduventure: The AR Edition - School Chat - Infrared - 10-09-2014
That's cool, i kinda like the majority of my students, but the school itself is in poor conditions and blah blah awful education system. There's only one grade i truly dislike (6th), very bad mannered and unwilling to learn. I can't really share cool stories about them figuring out the language because i teach really really basic stuff.
Also, an update about driving things: Paid a shady dude, got my license. I just need a car now
RE: Eduventure: The AR Edition - School Chat - Schazer - 10-31-2014
Today the history teacher and I discussed the various synonyms for excrement, and the appropriate contexts (disappointment, anger, calling someone names) that you might use each one in. i.e. why you'd call someone a turd or a piece of shit, but probably not a crap or a dungpile.
RE: Eduventure: The AR Edition - School Chat - Schazer - 12-05-2014
Hey Ed hopefully you'll read this at some point because I know you didn't want to tangentialise too heavily in Genders (Zero Sum) Game: the thread but I wanted to know more if you're ok sharing over here in a more "conversationally structured" sort of forum!
What kind of casual early-onset sexism do you see your kids saying/doing? In those kind of situations (or in general) do you feel safe confronting the kids about it? I could understand why you wouldn't, because I certainly don't get the opportunity to discuss sexism with my students in a formal classroom environment (although Japan's issues with sexism are a different beast to sexism in New Zealand or elsewhere, for instance), so I have to stick with challenging assumptions they make when we chat outside the classroom.