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Some days in school are kind of pleasant
Hard to explain exactly what's going on right now, but suffice it to say that sometimes kids are actually pretty cute and funny and being surrounded by a staff of Japanese people who don't understand English can be a good thing.
That is... you know, in my high school yearbook, I wrote that "in the future I hope to be a high school computer science teacher". And the reason that will never happen is simply that for the most part, being good at computer science means that it makes a lot more sense to go work at a software company and make money, rather than spend the time to get certified as a high school teacher and then go risk my life working in a high school in the US somewhere, making not very much money. (This might not be the case everywhere, but it's certainly my impression.)
But so now, through just being a white person who happens to speak English, I get to work as a teacher in a junior high school. And since I've proven I'm capable of making up fun activities, I get a lot of control over what I do in my classes (at least compared to what I was expecting). And since I am in Japan, the students are still reasonably nice and not likely to blow up a bomb in our school or shoot anyone. And I get the opportunity to get almost entire immersion in Japanese. And I don't have to wear a suit! And I get to go home at 5pm!
I wish I always had days like this, where I think things like "I wish I could stay here forever" and such, rather than the days where I think "I wish everyone around me would disappear".
That is... you know, in my high school yearbook, I wrote that "in the future I hope to be a high school computer science teacher". And the reason that will never happen is simply that for the most part, being good at computer science means that it makes a lot more sense to go work at a software company and make money, rather than spend the time to get certified as a high school teacher and then go risk my life working in a high school in the US somewhere, making not very much money. (This might not be the case everywhere, but it's certainly my impression.)
But so now, through just being a white person who happens to speak English, I get to work as a teacher in a junior high school. And since I've proven I'm capable of making up fun activities, I get a lot of control over what I do in my classes (at least compared to what I was expecting). And since I am in Japan, the students are still reasonably nice and not likely to blow up a bomb in our school or shoot anyone. And I get the opportunity to get almost entire immersion in Japanese. And I don't have to wear a suit! And I get to go home at 5pm!
I wish I always had days like this, where I think things like "I wish I could stay here forever" and such, rather than the days where I think "I wish everyone around me would disappear".
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Statistically I'm in more danger in the car on my way to school than I am at school.