Paranoid Fantasies of a Dark and Dismal Future Employment
I've been doing practice interviews with the third years for the past few days. Before we start individual interviews, Fumie-sensei and I demonstrate A-level, B-level, and C-level interviews to the class, and I can't keep from cracking up when Fumie-sensei acts out her C-level student. I also made a video self-introduction for Oshita-sensei, the English teacher who transferred to a nearby school in April. I don't like thinking about it, but it's only three weeks until I transfer schools and I'm not looking forward to it at all. I'll miss my students and coworkers. I was lucky enough to work with English teachers who all spoke decent English and I wonder if I'll be so lucky at Semboku Junior High School. I know that one of the English teachers there is the wife one of the gym teachers here, but that's it. Based on a few comments that I've heard from various sources, I've developed a largely negative image of the school, which is unfair, but I haven't heard anything really positive about it. I worry that the teachers there will be unfriendly and ugly and the students surly and rude. In my mind, it's already a decaying slum school, complete with fires burning in metal trashcans out front and pompadoured juvenile delinquents playing cards in homeroom and cutting each other with switchblades for laughs, then going out to perform elaborate jazz tap dance routines and rumble in the streets. Even though I wouldn't say I'm particularly close to anyone here, I'm used to them and I've developed working rapports with all of the English teachers. The thought of having to start the whole process over again isn't appealing. Well, there's nothing I can do about it, and from the point of view of the board of education, it makes sense to have as many schools as possible benefit from the assistant English teachers. I really have to find some way to distract myself from all this negativity.