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Thread #90419   Message #1835641
Posted By: Naemanson
15-Sep-06 - 06:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: Working (at last) in Guam
Subject: RE: BS: Working (at last) in Guam
Difficult week. I decided to quit my job at the Japanese School. I end each week so very tired and feeling so bad. I had a temper tantrum at Wakana earlier in the week and then realized I had exploded over nothing. I felt so bad. So I handed in my notice and will be done there as of October 12.

We have a group of students from the Nagoya Foreign Language College visiting Guam to study English. Liberal Academy is providing teachers for three hours each morning. I managed to find enough teachers. We met Friday morning to have an orientation with the students and their chaperones. The students are grouped by ability with group 5 being the least able and group 1 being the most able. They want us to shift teachers every day. I took group 5. Those kids are barely able to communicate in English. I don't know what they are doing here but those decisions are not mine to make.

By the way, when I say kids I mean college age. The 55 students we are working with include 40 women and 15 men. Each class has 8 women and 3 men. On my first morning 3 students did not show up for my class. The same thing happened for all the classes. The chaperones had to drag them out of their beds. The 1 kid who finally showed up for my class was pale and sick though she improved as themorning went on. I believe she was hung over.

Most of the women are training to be flight attendants. The rest of the women and all of the men are in communications courses. We have 7 more weekdays with them. Should be interesting.