I ended my day early and stayed in for the rest of the afternoon after school. It was just a series of small events that just rubbed me the wrong way and I didn't feel like being interactive.
1) On my way to school one of the Guadalupe primary school boys thought it would be funny to say "CHING CHONG" as he passed me. I either ignore this or just tell them to "lef mi and fuck off". Telling children to "fuck off" is common here and doesn't have the same meaning as it does in America even though it's saying the same thing......fuck off. The thing that pissed me off is that the kid was being disrespectful while wearing the Guadalupe uniform and on top of that, he did it to a teacher. Bad move kid, he was lucky I was running late, he just received a public shaming from me in the middle of the road. I've decided that the next time a kid in a Guadalupe uniform calls me Ching-Chong, I will write "CHING CHONG" on their forehead with a sharpie......good luck explaining that to your teachers and parents why you have that on your head for several days.
2) My computer classes with my SS3 girls did not go so well today. They are 2yrs away from university and they can't follow directions. I understand that I have to take things a bit slower here when it comes to computers but I wrote out directions and the procedure was as clear as day. A good chunk of them could not differentiate the difference between backspace, spacebar, caps lock, and shift. We are now on week 3! I wanted to rip my eyeballs out for the fact that I had to talk about shift and caps lock for 45min each for 3 periods. Someone shoot me in the fucking head! Anyone ever seen "Election" with Matthew Broderick??? I kinda felt like him when he was teaching the same government class over and over again. HAPPY GROUNDHOGS DAY! For 45 min, I literally circled around the classroom and pointed out the shift and caps lock and then I circled back around and individually asked them to point them out to me, and they still got it wrong. These are the days where I hate kids. Den get trangga yes! (They have selective hearing).
3) The Math Dept. is in charge of assembly this week and I practically set up the whole thing for us and I gave clear and simple instructions. Talk about a technical occupation that uses math in order to increase interest in Math. As well as provide a numerical fun fact about Salone to increase knowledge about their own country. Why did my co-worker give the definition of mathematics. SNOOZE-FEST!!!!! There is no "I" in team, I put together the ideas, concepts, and schedule, just fill in the blank.......let's work together here people, I can't spoon feed you every single fucking detail!!!
4) Part of this week's Math Dept Assembly, I suggested that we help beautify the school by having a door decorating contest because all the classrooms are bare and it's hard for me to tell which classroom is which b/c they are not properly labeled. And it's competitive, creative, and fun. I go to help out with JSS3A, I come with art supplies. Kids love art hour, right??? The kids all said that they don't know how to draw and proceeded to take out their pencils to draw boxes with rulers. Children rejecting markers, crayons and colored pencils?!?! It's sad! These children were never taught to use their imagination and develop their creativity. If you ask them to draw they will draw the same 4 items in the same exact way: 1) a plant from their agriculture class 2) the house looks exactly the same 3) the same damn bird 4) the same stupid procedure for this ugly car that someone decided should be mandatory for all children to draw cars this way in primary school. I had to force them. I made them come up in groups of 4, I said no pencils no rulers and they have 2min to draw something, anything and can use as much colors as they want. It was better even though most of them just re-drew what the person before them had already drawn. This really made me sad.
So after a full day of disappointment and scowling at misbehaving students I had a huge pounding headache and couldn't bear to be social and just hid my house and bumped my tunes because sometimes you just need that escape every now and then to keep your sanity.
I understand the "WHYs" but sometimes understanding "why" doesn't help with my feelings. So today was a not so great day, I will try again tomorrow.
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