NFT - best and worst thing about your day so far 2

[Misanthrope]

WORST: Got called in an hour and a half early today for a meeting that took all of five minutes, and speaking tests continue

BEST: One of my Korean co-workers offered to take my last class of the day for no apparent reason. Yay!

 

[dyslexie]

best: i have 2 weeks off work wooooo !!!!!!

i dont have a worst.

 

[Misanthrope]

BEST: Christmas tomorrow

WORST: Our boss cancelled the Christmas market (where kids trade in stickers they've earned for good behaviour for candy/treats) at the last minute and my last present from Mum didn't arrive in time

 

[Jedda]

Best - pavlova for breakfast (gotta love leftovers from a pre-chrissie dinner)

Worst - I'm supposed to be at work already.:shock:

 

[Misanthrope]

BEST: Mum really pulled out all stops in making sure I had a good Christmas. New games, expensive new sweaters, Australian candy, Australian memorabilia, decorations, Aussie food.... The fact postage alone cost her almost $300 should give some indication of how crazy she went

WORST: My PC chose to die at 3am this morning, after Mum and the family had gone to the trouble of buying a webcam so I could see a live webcast of the family Christmas. I kicked the mother-f**king sh*t out of that merkin

 

[Misanthrope]

BEST: The weekend is less than six hours away, New Year's is around the corner, and I just found out I have a week vacation the day after I get my new PC monster

WORST: Work is becoming an absolute farce. I'm not allowed to fail students for poor marks (I re-test them until they pass), I've been given the two worst classes in the school after my work-mate couldn't handle them, and we're not given any power to discipline trouble students.

 

[Risa]

Best: Have had a really good week just being out and about and not working. Really cleared the old job from my mind and ready to start the new one next Wednesday!
My birthday is tomorrow & having some friends come down for it so it will be nice

Worst: Nothing!!

 

[Misanthrope]

BEST: Just got back from an awesome New Year's night out with my new mates.

WORST: Have developed a hopeless crush on one of said mates. She hits all of the categories on my 'dream girl' scale, but I can't see it going anywhere.

 

[dyslexie]

best: last yr is over, bring on the new one !
got to spend my new yrs with a few good mates

worst: i feel ill, surprisingly not a hangover.
have been banned from drinking for 6 weeks.
lol

 

[dyslexie]

best: staceys back today !!!!
worst: my neighbour just had to have his dog put down
and i saw him burying her .

 

[Misanthrope]

WORST: My incompetant boss had us all in for a meeting at 11am (we usually start at 2.30). The meeting didn't start until 12.30 because he wasn't prepared. It was then conducted entirely in Korean, so the two Western teachers were bored. Lunch, usually provided after meetings, arrived an hour late while we were all in class. On top of that, he's instituted a restructure that has us working half an hour longer a day without any extra pay.

BEST: Two and a half hour break in the middle of the day. It's both awesome and annoying.

 

[the_knights_rule]

best: had the best holiday ever but now im glad to be back to sleep in my own bed and the overnight flight wasnt too bad

worst: my body is so confused about what time it is and when i should be sleeping

 

[Misanthrope]

worst: my body is so confused about what time it is and when i should be sleeping

The time difference between Thailand and Australia can't be that different, surely? I know I'm two hours behind Australia.

 

[the_knights_rule]

The time difference between Thailand and Australia can't be that different, surely? I know I'm two hours behind Australia.

its 4 hours behind and we had an overnight flight so i had wierd sleeping patterns. i accidently had a 4 hr nap this arvo now im wide awake dammit

 

[dyslexie]

best: went shopping @ parra westfield today.
bought new swimmers, new shoes, CSI for my ds and 10 things i hate about u, and a box set of DEGRASSI JNR HIGH !!!! so excited hahah

worst: i's tired and spent too much money today lol

 

[the_knights_rule]

best: my work had a fire ... pity it didnt burn down :lol:

worst: getting a cold/flu grrrrr and looking at my bank account and realising exaclty how much money i spend ................ a lot so now im poor

 

[dyslexie]

best: first day at work went surprisingly ok, and found out one of the girls i work with is pregnant after having 2 miscarriages.

worst: had to go back to work. early mornings suck

 

[Misanthrope]

BEST: Pay day this week means I should finally be able to buy a gaming PC

WORST: My work situation is becoming unbearable, but I'm in a bad position. I can't take a new contract at a rival school because they are a default of twelve months and I need to be home for my sister's wedding - but quitting and flying home would mean reimbursing the flight over and basically ruling out any future ventures here.

 

[Parki]

dude.... that sucks

i dont really have any words to say, except to remember why you went there in the first place..... your mates all believe in you, and we know you can do it

if you need me to blow up some korean kids im more than happy to send you some dynamite.... little buggers cant be that tough to dispose of

if you need to chat, gimme a buzz.... not sure what help i can be but it might help, good luck

 

[Misanthrope]

if you need me to blow up some korean kids im more than happy to send you some dynamite.... little buggers cant be that tough to dispose of

:lol:

The kids are the part of my job that I love. There's a few trouble-makers, of course - but that's more than made up for. Today, for example, I was given a wrapped gift by one child (who I didn't even teach today) and I had another student write a story about how nice I am.

It's just that the place is poorly run and the boss is cheap. We have 300 students (which is huge for a private school) and only two foreign teachers - which means we're teaching ten to eleven classes of 6-13 a day, without breaks, and we're writing reports and sitting exams for 150 kids each every two months.

The cause for today's outburst was my boss deciding that, since we have paid vacation next week, we'd work extra hours this week (without breaks) *and* we'd have until Friday to submit progress reports we can't start until Wednesday. Thankfully, after both of us threatened to disappear over the break, he pulled his head in and gave us an extension 'until we're done'.