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Hawaiibadboy
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 Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:08 am Post subject: Who's having a Christmas party? |
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Any school owners or teachers having Christmas parties?
You can follow the progress of my preperations at www.waikiki2yanai.blogspot.com
Yeah...I know...it's not even Thanksgiving yet but I just had that party on the 18th so I'm already gearing up for the next one. |
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Otterman Ollie
Joined: 23 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:43 am Post subject: |
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Thats nice ,very nice, although I work in a place that has the highest number of foreign workers in one teaching instuition, Christmas is a big bad word here . We have a new name for the administration, think of a word that rhymes stooge! Bah humbug!
So much for religious tolerance. |
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GambateBingBangBOOM
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| Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| I've been informed that, because English is for international communication, we should not be teaching such culturally biased festivals such as Christmas. |
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Serious_Fun
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| Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:20 am Post subject: |
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I'll be using Christmas as a theme during the next few weeks, and also having a class Christmas party....and then? I will give a speech about Christmas to the entire school, after which I will decorate the English Club board with Christmas images. 
Then the school staff will have a Christmas party on the school grounds. 
When I return from my Christmas holiday, I will be refreshed and ready for the next term...and for Chinese New Year!   |
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Serious_Fun
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| Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:23 am Post subject: |
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Bad Badtz Maru (a bad-ass penguin)
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The other day a student swore to me that XO was an owl...
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GambateBingBangBOOM
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| Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:57 am Post subject: |
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| Serious_Fun wrote: |
| GambateBingBangBOOM wrote: |
Bad Badtz Maru (a bad-ass penguin)
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The other day a student swore to me that XO was an owl...
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Your student is "as clumsy as he is stupid". --D.Vader. (gong gong gong gon-ga gong gon ga gonnng) 
from
http://www.badtz-maru.com/site/html/sales.html |
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denise
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| Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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A Christmas party in Oman?? Uh... no.
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Hawaiibadboy
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:11 am Post subject: |
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| GambateBingBangBOOM wrote: |
| I've been informed that, because English is for international communication, we should not be teaching such culturally biased festivals such as Christmas. |
So Christmas offends people?
Coming from a grade school (Boston) where we sang 6 Christmas and 6 Hanukkah songs at the Christmas concert I feel lucky to be guided by my parents generation.
Presents!
The reason for the season!!!!!
**Note to God: I was just clownin' on ya boy! I know tha deal** |
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GambateBingBangBOOM
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| Hawaiibadboy wrote: |
| GambateBingBangBOOM wrote: |
| I've been informed that, because English is for international communication, we should not be teaching such culturally biased festivals such as Christmas. |
So Christmas offends people?
Coming from a grade school (Boston) where we sang 6 Christmas and 6 Hanukkah songs at the Christmas concert I feel lucky to be guided by my parents generation.
Presents!
The reason for the season!!!!!
**Note to God: I was just clownin' on ya boy! I know tha deal** |
I'm not in a multicultural environment where some people may be offended by Christmas. I'm in a Buddhist country that actually DOES celebrate Christmas, but just the gift giving aspect of it (the family feeling of it is for New Years- so Christmas and New years are sort of reversed in that on Christmas you are suppowed to go out on a date, which can be sort of party-like compared with Christmas in North America, but on New Years you head to your family's place and sit at home doing the family thing- usually while watching no rules fights on TV  )
The religion aspect of it isn't really understood, but that's okay, because I would say it's basically a secular holiday now for most people in Canada. I only know a couple of people who actually went to church on Christmas, and both of them are Catholic, for whom the midnight mass is still a thing to do, I guess. |
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Julieanne
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| I am lucky that the school I am teaching with actually pays for my airfare home for the holidays return!! |
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