Postcards and the uselessness of AIT

[kishuku]

Postcards:

Seattle, WA (very disturbing actually considering I have a pregnancy phobia)
Washington and Oregon State postcards via Illinois

Today's school drama:

Comments

[kishuku]

It's all right. It's not exactly something that comes up in conversation. ^_^ I'm still keeping the postcard, I just won't be staring at it in fascination. ^_~

I think it's just over strangers or people whom they can look down on. She also had this fairly incredulous or disbelieving attitude that his family didn't or wouldn't know where he was. Nevertheless it was her callousness that made me somewhat bonkers. I had to write a letter of appeal to AIT and fax it over, we'll see what response I get tomorrow.

[akatora]

Reminds me of my high school math teacher.

New school in 7th grade and everyone disliked the math teacher. He was African and had the accent and difficulty understanding English. I suppose that's a strong contributor. The students were awful and disrespectful. I mean blatantly cheating on his tests [btw, I'm sitting between you girls, I can so HEAR you.... -_-]

And then he apparently died during winter break and all these horrible girls were in tears 'cause they realized how horrible they were to him and now he's dead.

...........the replacement math teacher didn't fair much better. They thought he was fruity gay and made fun of him behind his back.

[kishuku]

Well, I haven't dissolved into tears over this guy. I'm more frustrated to tears by this woman's attitude, because whether or not I liked this man he was a human being and pushing the responsibility of his corpse around is... frankly disturbing and inhumane. That being said, I do realize I am also pushing the disposal of his corpse to AIT but that's what an embassy or rep office is supposed to do, isn't it?

[jugglergeek]

I've never understood why people suddenly think well of someone once they're dead. I mean, realizing that you shouldn't have been that mean to them, sure. But if they were an asshole, that doesn't change just because they're not around to piss you off anymore.

[kishuku]

I get that, but I'm more upset over what's happening to him now that he's gone. That there's no one to contact or take care of the final stages of his period here, a lot of that frustration is at this woman's attitude and part of it is also at this guy who can't seem to leave me alone even after he's dead. (Irresponsibility also irritates me.) But I suppose finding someone to take responsibility to his corpse is my last offer to him as a fellow human being, regardless of how I felt about him personally.

[superekin]

You have hands down one of the strangest jobs ever.

[kishuku]

I think it must be me. Any other job I've worked I've also come away with really weird stories.