apparently punctuation matters

so i'm sure you've noticed i don't really like capitalizing or really following any grammar rules, except for subject verb agreement but i have recently learned that punctuation is quite important. of course i learned this the hard way. so last weekend my friend and i each brought home a morroccan guy. i won't get into the fact that i cried before we got in the taxi because i told the guy who was coming with me that i wouldn't sleep with him and he shouldn't mission all the way to tuen mun if i'm going to be a prude, or that i fell out of said taxi cab when we reached our location, or that both of these guys had the same morroccan name which sounded something like tofuck. but i will get into the fact that my friend was so drunk she really thought she had slept with this guy but couldn't remember and after peeing the morning after began to think maybe she hadn't so she enlisted me to help her find out by texting the guy i went home with about what his friend did with my friend (are you following this??). well, without further adieu here is a texting reenactment.

T: Hey, How's the week starting. . .energized kids and a hang over teacher

K: haha not hungover!! i haven't even thrown up all day

K: still piecing together the events of this weekend my friend didnt sleep with your friend

T: Does this carry any message to me or u just informing me?

K: sorry was meant to be a question. . .just double checking and being a little nosy

T: No worries. I guess she is your best friend and she would not lie to you. Yet, my friend would never share bed stuff with me and me likewise. We had a great night with or without sex. Great girls and we respect you.

From all this I've learned question marks and commas matter.

i'm STILL employed!!!

well, i have kept this third job for three weeks now. I wanted to give it some time to make sure it would stick. it was a little rocky until mid-week last week. the people are very nice, but very intense. i got called into a meeting with the head teacher and the headmistress (not sure if that's really her title. . .maybe owner??) so they could tell me that i'm too agreeable. seriously, i'm not asking enough questions to the people training me. naturally i got defensive and i was just talking faster and faster and the blotch started to overtake my neck and face, so basically, this meeting did not go great. but then later in the week some of the other teachers were really encouraging and telling me that when the training was over it would be much nicer and i wouldn't feel so micromanaged. this made me feel so much better and helped me relax a bit in all the classes i was co-teaching which made my teaching quite a bit better. i also when out with a couple teachers from school on wednesday night, and its always good to drink with your co-workers. aside from a joke i made about how me and my roommates always try to find a guy to take us home on weekends so we don't have to pay for a taxi things went swimmingly! then on friday i co-taught a phonics class with the phonics course manager (when i say co-teach i mean i teach and another teacher watches and judges me) and afterwards she told me that i did great and as far as she was concerned i didn't need to co-teach any more phonics classes, which was so so nice to hear! as of now, i have 5 of my own classes, still doing some co-teaching (not of phonics, but of some of the other classes) and observing this week, oh and grading practice. seriously these kids are so smart and i'm a horrible speller, and you see how i use punctuation in this blog, but i think the worst is behind me.

I'M EMPLOYED!!! (take 3)

i know this is just ridiculous, but i've done it again. i signed a contract, filled out my immigration papers, and then shot off an email saying: just kidding, i don't really want this job (i'm of course paraphrasing). but like i said that kindergarten was weird, and i still haven't even heard back since my rejection letter to them. so, i guess its all for the best.

so anyway, back on point, my third job. it is at a learning center and its the one i spoke of earlier that means 6 days a week people, i'm working like a real asian here. i went in today and did all the paperwork and then had to take some of it to immigration myself, so i know it got there, which is a good feeling after the other two jobs. i will be working with kids ages 3-13 and they do phonics classes, conversation, and quite a bit of writing. tomorrow i go in for my first day and there is even a welcome lunch, whatup free food!!! i think this is the one.

I'M EMPLOYED!!! (take 2)

I was offered three jobs on wednesday. I agonized over the decision, had my pallies help me with a pro/con list, but i'm pretty sure i went ahead and made the wrong decision. two of the jobs were at learning centers, one 5 days a week, the other 6 days a week with 2 of the days being half days. the third job was at an international kindergarten, 5 day work week, no weekends, except the occasional school function. well, i went with the kindergarten. i know either of the other two jobs would have been more fun and a bit more challenging, but i went with the kindergarten because i will get way more vacation. and i immediately regretted this. but did that stop me from signing a 2 year contract, oh no, when i make a decision and realize its not the best one, i just stick right with it. when i went in to sign the contract i see that i have to give 4 months notice if i want to leave before september. i have to pay for a uniform, and we get a new one each season (on a side note i think i don't have to necessarily wear the uniform, but i cannot confirm this). and i can't start until my working visa is processed, which will be for at least another month.

but i do have a sneaky part time job, that i work about 2 hours a week. and i heard from one of the centers i turned down that they want me to be a sub, so i have a class with them coming up next week also. so maybe it will all work out, or maybe i'm getting played and this kindergarten just tricked me. you just never really know.