So I decided to be responsible and stay in while Alan went out to Dub Reggae night at a local club. Here it is now midnight and i'm wide awake. My reason for being responsible is that i GOT A JOB! and i have to go in tomorrow morning at 8:45 to see the morning routine. The school is called Jump Start. After the Chinese New Year I will start on Feb 9. First I will be subbing for a teacher that is getting deported (long story) for three weeks in a class of 5-6 year olds. After that I will get my own class of lovely little 2-3 year olds. Right now there are only three boys in the class so it should be a piece of cake! Working with the little ones with fill the void in my life that is my little Binderman girls!
Alan and I went to the Shilin Night market last night and went on a fun shopping spree. Mainly we bought gifts for friends. It's a little frustrating shopping there for clothes as most of the clothes are made to fit a 16 year old girls body, although that is the size of most girls/women here no matter the age. NO boobs, no butts, no hips! Maybe it will be incentive to drop a few lbs. And the Taiwanese store owners are not afraid to tell you the clothes in their stores aren't going to fit you. The first time it happened to me I was almost in tears but now i am used to it as it is socially acceptable I am finding. We are so sensitive about weight back home that you would never have someone in a store tell you that the clothes in their store aren't going to fit you, but they're not afraid here.
OK going to lay down and try to make myself fall asleep.
goodnight! bayly
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Congrats on the jobh, Bay! Send pictures of your new students when you can and Happy New Year Round 2!!
ReplyDeleteI hope you liked the Dub Reggae night and am glad to read you've landed the teaching job. The Taiwanese seem like the Koreans to me in their candor; it must simply be different. Your blog is fun and entertaining so keep it up!
ReplyDeleteI would be considered "overweight" in their eyes, too. My hips are far too wide! And yes, it's more accepted to tell people that blatantly. My relatives and mom always say (in Chinese when they think I don't understand, but I do!), "She's fat! She's gotten fat!" Needless to say, I would even be hesitant to visit my ancestors' land without stocking up in pants in America.
ReplyDeleteps- congrats on the job! AWWWESOME!
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