And it's over
Jul. 13th, 2006 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akujunkanTaught my last class in a Japanese school today. I'll still be here for about a month, but I've taken half of my remaining vacation days to tidy up the administrative stuff - packing, closing down my bank account, cancelling utilities, Internet service, and my credit card.
Anyway, the BIGGEST irony of this whole experience is that I should have had this job my first year, when I had come over with the intention of teaching English in Japan. Instead I found myself in a school that didn't want me there, whose teachers resentment of my presence in the classroom was only rivalled by their resentment of the free time I had when they cancelled my classes. No one wanted to work alongside me to teach in the classroom, or outside of it, preparing lessons.
Fast forward to this year, when I found myself placed in schools that want me there, whose teachers utilize me five class periods a day, actively solicit my input, and are interested in getting to know me and getting me face time with the kids. The irony being of course, that this is not the job I hired to do, and quite frankly, I hated it. (And I can safely say that now that it's over.)
Of course, the people who really lose out are the kids, because while I love talking with them and playing with them between periods, I couldn't give less of a shit about their lessons. I was professional about it while in the classroom, but I certainly didn't have the enthusiasm for it that I had during my first year. Which sucks.
And it makes me sad that they've hired someone else under false pretenses to succeed me.
That will be all.
Anyway, the BIGGEST irony of this whole experience is that I should have had this job my first year, when I had come over with the intention of teaching English in Japan. Instead I found myself in a school that didn't want me there, whose teachers resentment of my presence in the classroom was only rivalled by their resentment of the free time I had when they cancelled my classes. No one wanted to work alongside me to teach in the classroom, or outside of it, preparing lessons.
Fast forward to this year, when I found myself placed in schools that want me there, whose teachers utilize me five class periods a day, actively solicit my input, and are interested in getting to know me and getting me face time with the kids. The irony being of course, that this is not the job I hired to do, and quite frankly, I hated it. (And I can safely say that now that it's over.)
Of course, the people who really lose out are the kids, because while I love talking with them and playing with them between periods, I couldn't give less of a shit about their lessons. I was professional about it while in the classroom, but I certainly didn't have the enthusiasm for it that I had during my first year. Which sucks.
And it makes me sad that they've hired someone else under false pretenses to succeed me.
That will be all.