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[A.K.A.T.D.N.]

Oh buggers, it's a joke. Unless you really have the nerve, and the ambition to teach, you're just here and nothing more. Then this latter aspect becomes a naeuseaing sensation in the morning and right before work. The ideal of Wesrtenism makes you feel you're here to accomplish a job, but not here to be part and parcel of the mindset.

I find this often for the better anyway. It makes me think of how we think, and learn, in comparison. If they wanted me to speak CHinese I would. But then the BIlingual excuse would be jettisoned from the one hour nap's schedule. The fatsoe maager would think less of here job, and stop having to talk sarcasticially superficial. The nutso owner would not be able to rob immigration. And he cutsie-pie assistants would have to learn to say hello.
But, oh buggers, it's a joke.

Since I'm the center of it all and not made to retain what my didactic philosophy is and all. I'm just here to be a soundboard, like my mother, making 40,0000 a year and other teachers back in the States. I could plan, systemmatically, a plan to follow, but not one over night and that containing over 100 students and kids who can't sit still or even speak their name. I've often been told discipline is the key. BU here it's feed and burp them, then give them to the CHinese teachers to handle. They usually bounce them up and down and make the kids cry anyways. So I sleep.

ANd await for us Western kids to stand up and make these kids feel they need to learn. Don't tell me everyone just wants to come to America to make money and because it's such a good country and all. It has to due with our systemmatic learning and way of life. I found this scares the Taiwanese, and the Koreans, for some reason or another. I watched the Chinese teacher getting punished for hitting a fat kid, The kid called her a name or another, deserved it. BUt the school laid it on her like she was part of their corrupt system. As one principle even remonstrated to me, You have to know our system.

I do, and take a nap, hopefully getting paid for being an idiot.

[markholmes]

[matchstick_man]

I had trouble telling the signature from the actual text.

[comenius]

Wow.

[Xenophobe]

[markholmes]

[TaoyuanSteve]

[Xenophobe]

phonetically: tah suh sen jee been

[markholmes]

Sorry Xenophone you completely lost me there. Mind repeating that in English or characters?

[matchstick_man]

seen jee been: I always heard this as seargent been without the emphasis on the T. You undoubtedly will have heard this phrase in Taiwan if you've been here a year or more.

[TaoyuanSteve]

神經病 We could perhaps be talking about this phrase? In the Hanyu system of Pin Yin romanization it's shen2 jing1 bing4. Basically means something like nuts, crazy or insane in English. Another related word might be 瘋了 (feng1 le). Sorry, I can't make out exactly what Matchstick was referring to. He wasn't using a pin yin system I could recognize. Is what I wrote close to what you've heard, Matchstick?

[markholmes]

[AsiaTraveller]

[matchstick_man]

Actually it was xenophobe who used sen jen been...not me. I always heard as it sergeant been. You know how the Taiwanese are with hard final consonants.