Roomate situation
Okay the roommate situation. Patrick is okay. He's 22, just out of college, from the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, never had a job, lived in Germany for 1 year and is totally totally a book worm and pretty clueless about how life. But, he's okay and I can tolerate him because he appreciates how cool it is to be an American in Egypt. Kate, my other roommate, is 28, has a PhD in Autism, is from New Zealand, never had a job in HER life, lived in France for 1 year, isn't a book worm but is still totally totally clueless about life and the real world. ALL Kate has done since she's been here in Egypt is complain. PLUS her accent is very close to a British one, she mumbles, and she's always laughing when she talks & half the time I can't understand a word she says. She's totally clueless about my psychological cues. Like when someone walks away during a break in a conversation (not in a rude way), that typically means that conversation is over. Well, I try to send her that signal but she follows me into my room. She'll stand outside the door and talk to me. Then I'll walk down the hallway to the kitchen and back to my bedroom and she follows me everywhere, mumbling, laughing, and complaining about school. It's really quite annoying. Plus she's caused a lot of problems at the school because she's very vocal about everything. Instead of going to the director and complaining about stuff today she marched into the office after school and started yelling at the director's daughter (who is the assistant), caused a huge scene, and then me & Patrick were called into the office so that the 3 of us could talk. It was good thing because the meeting was SORELY needed and the director is really cool and will make whatever changes we want to make the school more American like, but her daughter is the one who is a spoiled little bitch. She just graduated from college, the family is rich as all get out, she's never worked in education before, and she's going to study in Canada next year. I plan on going to the director from now on whenever I need anything. I called the director a few nights ago to ask her about laundry detergent because I didn't know which brand was for laundry or the dishwasher...everything is in Arabic! She was really cool and told me the brand and we talked for about 1/2 an hour about school and my students and how things were going. She told me she wants to talk to me about taking a supervisory position over Patrick and maybe another teacher because my specialty is ESL and they need help in that area. How cool is that? That's why I just keep my mouth shut and let Kate make the waves. I need the director on my side, especially is they plan on giving me a title. I just want it for the resume!
Okay okay, so back to the roommate. Kate has done NOTHING but complain the WHOLE time she's been here. She mumbles and when I say something to her she says, "HMMMM" even when she heard what I said. She talks REALLY badly about the school while were AT the school and then when I go back to the apartment I try to duck into my room, take a nap, and get out as quickly as possible so I don't have to listen to her! It's awful that the only female in Egypt I can talk to is a hen! I can't stand people like that!
Okay okay, so back to the roommate. Kate has done NOTHING but complain the WHOLE time she's been here. She mumbles and when I say something to her she says, "HMMMM" even when she heard what I said. She talks REALLY badly about the school while were AT the school and then when I go back to the apartment I try to duck into my room, take a nap, and get out as quickly as possible so I don't have to listen to her! It's awful that the only female in Egypt I can talk to is a hen! I can't stand people like that!