http://outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher.html

I thought I'd share this site. It is well written and rolling on the floor halarious!
KT
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I am a Japanese School Teacher
By: Azrael

In August 2003 I moved to Kyoto, Japan as a part of the JET program. I am an assistant language teacher in three Jr. High schools. The experience has been...interesting to say the least. Interesting enough to warrant it's own editorial.

However, there isn't just one editorial that could cover everything about my experiences here. So I decided to make it into an editorial series. This is the main page - check here for updates.

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11.11.04 My Kids Are Perverted 3.18.05 Requiem For a Legacy - Part I
11.11.04 In The Ghetto 3.21.05 Requiem For a Legacy - Part II
11.11.04 It's So Pretty 4.3.05 Requiem For a Legacy - Part III
11.11.04 Japanese Kids Say The Darndest Things 4.8.05 Closing Time
11.11.04 Rico Suave Meets Velma 4.12.05 Closing Time Part II
11.11.04 The Cows Worst Enemy 4.15.05 Home Sweet Home
1.12.05 Japanese Kids Say the Darndest Things 2 4.15.05 Hol 'on boy!
1.12.05 Japanese Teachers Say the Darndest Things 4.16.05 Last One, I Swear
1.12.05 Protecting The Merchandise 4.20.05 It Has Begun
1.22.05 In Defense: A Quick FAQ 4.29.05 Japanese People Say the Darndest Things
1.22.05 Ass Wars Episode VI - Return of the Kancho 4.30.05 I Say the Darndest Things
1.27.05 Japanese Kids Say the Darndest Things 3 5.1.05 A Picture's Worth...
1.27.05 Operation: Japanese D-Cup 5.7.05 Az Fails at Dating
1.27.05 I Can Only Love You For One Day 5.10.05 And Now For Something Different
2.2.05 The Octopus 5.12.05 A Rose, By Any Other Name
2.2.05 Gaijin Smash 5.17.05 Negotiations With the Enemy
2.6.05 *Special* Moeko's Owl 5.20.05 Coke Addict Has a Fan
2.6.05 Oxymorons 5.31.05 The Kancho Revolution
2.6.05 Velma Jr. 6.1.05 I Am Penis-Man
2.6.05 My Kids Are Perverted 2 6.4.05 Natsumi and Yuki
2.14.05 Round 3 6.4.05 Catch-Up Part I - Skanks 'R Us
2.14.05 You're Not Your Fake Cornrows 6.8.05 Catch-Up Part II - Waist-shake
2.14.05 Respect Mah Authority 6.8.05 Dynamic Duo
2.25.05 Ghetto Randomness 6.13.05 Black Man Lies
3.2.05 You WILL Love Me
3.6.05 It's So...Quiet?!
3.9.05 Open Your Buttcrack
3.12.05 A Desperate Struggle
3.16.05 Ichinensei After Lunch
3.18.05 Graduation





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I read the first entry and felt so sorry for him! He's gotta handful der!...."Gotcha"/"Wedgie"/"Make the Adult Look Like a Fool While Bonding".....the universal language of the teens!

He should feel proud, really...they WANT to know him....THAT is kewl in his situation.
They could just make life really miserable and ignore him completely.

Great stuff, KT !

Kids are kids, no matter where they live, huh ?

I was surprised that there were ghettos in Japan, though. I always imagined that Japan was rather neat and tidy - altogether different from the US. Seems that is not the case. Also surprised that the kids get promoted no matter what and that there is so little discipline the schools- or rules.

As hilarious as these stories are, they are also very educational to someone like me who has
never visited the Far East.

From my own experience of five years of teaching ages 1 year to 80 year olds and some of it in the age group described by this website writer - he is not exaggerating. Great site. Thanks KT.

Perhaps the title of the thread should have been 'I am a foreign teacher in Japan.' (I had expected a Japanese person to be writing it.)

One might say that lazyboy! I have to tell the truth...I am still reading each of these editorials on his site. They are so well written, interesting, and funny...that I keep on going back!



He is also an African American. He has a great sense of humor doesn't he?

KT