The Off Topic Topic

[Tonitrus]

How viable/easy is vagabonding over to Japan and landing an English-teaching job anyway?

[Barrister]

That age are fun. They have no qualms about speaking to foreigners in japanese. And I guess there's not much stress about teaching to be had.
Though I do hear these English day cares are really exhausting.

That's exactly the point.  Kids that age are incredibly fun.  But they have boundless energy.

For someone who values laziness as much as Lettow does...




L, I'm just giving you the gears though.  I just realized you and I aren't on the best of terms so you might not take it as such.  Congrats on the new job.

[Lettow77]

Goodness, I woke up at 6 AM!

But no, that's a valid concern. My overall impression based on the activities I did on the first day was that it did indeed look tiring- singing and dancing is an aspect of it, after all, and in general maintaining a fairly high level of enthusiasm and energy that contrasts with my much-valued laziness.

Fortunately, acting silly with children isn't really kin to the hard work I fear. For the first six months i'll only be working four days a week anyhow. While the objections about the work it entails may be valid, i'm definitely in no position or inclination to complain that it'll be work outside my comfort zone. It -is- work, after all. The boss seems reassuringly irresponsible and unprofessional. Long-term, I may want to seek teaching an older age group.

As for how can you teach 1&2 year olds anything- I shared your concern! For that age a parent comes in as well, so its sort of teaching both,  and its shorter than other classes. But I had thoughts like "What a farce, kid wants to lay down rather than have anything to do with this" that swiftly turned into "What bold initiative! He's fearlessly just laying down rather than having anything to do with this..)

You'd be surprised though. Managed to get more english out of him than you'd think. A boy who wasn't yet two picked some plastic fruit out of a bag and told me it was a lemon, and then that lemons weren't delicious.

The age 5-6 class has much cuter children, because by then they've realized the importance of having immaculate bangs.

[Ideologue]

The age 5-6 class has much cuter children, because by then they've realized the importance of having immaculate bangs.

I'm having another moral quandary.

[lustindarkness]

The age 5-6 class has much cuter children, because by then they've realized the importance of having immaculate bangs.

I'm having another moral quandary.

Seems Lettuce is not.

[merithyn]

The age 5-6 class has much cuter children, because by then they've realized the importance of having immaculate bangs.

I'm having another moral quandary.

[Eddie Teach]

The age 5-6 class has much cuter children, because by then they've realized the importance of having immaculate bangs.

I'm having another moral quandary.

Ide like bangs. Lettow also likes bangs. Moral Quandary. 

[merithyn]

Ide like bangs. Lettow also likes bangs. Moral Quandary. 

I get it. I find it dispicable that he would go there.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Awesome school bus conversion:

Hank Bought a Bus

[Josquius]

The age 5-6 class has much cuter children, because by then they've realized the importance of having immaculate bangs.

I'm having another moral quandary.

Ide like bangs. Lettow also likes bangs. Moral Quandary. 

Bangs? As in a fringe? Or shagging?

[Eddie Teach]

Ide like bangs. Lettow also likes bangs. Moral Quandary. 

I get it. I find it dispicable that he would go there.

I'm not sure if he did. The quandary could be whether it's moral to have the same aesthetic sensibilities as Lettow.

[Eddie Teach]

Bangs? As in a fringe? Or shagging?

Fringe, assuming that's a haircut.

[Lettow77]

Awesome school bus conversion:

From the article:

I'm looking forward to pushing this project further, continuing to build out the necessary systems and modifying the elements that need more iteration, in order to better understand living in tiny spaces, and expand discussion about living small.

A whole bus is living small, he says 

[alfred russel]

How can you teach 1 and 2 year olds anything?

Generally it is probably very difficult, but to teach them a language? It may be the perfect time...

[The Brain]

How can you teach 1 and 2 year olds anything?

Generally it is probably very difficult, but to teach them a language? It may be the perfect time...

Yes, but as has been mentioned previously... antebellum Southern English? Good idea? Or great idea?!!!