Twenty classes a week AND moving out?! Wow, what changes!
Reconnected with Corey for a brief while just now:
[17:55:35] Flami: are you alive?
[17:58:53] Corey: yes, are you? :P
[17:59:29] Corey: I have like 20 classes a week now, so I haven't been at home as much
[18:00:32] Flami: of course I'm alive! and you sound busy
[18:03:21] Corey: well, it's kind of annoying... today, I have class at 10:30-12.. then 90 minutes to wait around, then class at 1:30-3, then 30 minutes waiting around, then 3:30-5. then... two hours to wait around.... then I have to go to Zhong Li by train for a two-hour class. so I work 6.5 hours, but I'm out from like 9:40 AM (which is soon, I'm getting ready.. I just woke up) until almost 10 PM
[18:03:31] Corey: too much wasted time
[18:04:14] Flami: wow, that IS a lot of time to just wait around... can you do something like marking during that time?
[18:06:35] Corey: ha
[18:06:39] Corey: you think this is school?
[18:06:55] Flami: I dunno
[18:06:57] Corey: there's no homework or test :P it's like daycare for old people
[18:07:04] Corey: at least the daytime classes
[18:07:18] Flami: you got a job with the geriatrics?
[18:07:23] Corey: we just read an article, and if they don't want it to be boring, they'll ask me lots of questions
[18:07:34] Corey: well, the daytime classes are all old people or housewives
[18:07:41] Corey: everyone else is at school / work
[18:08:09] Corey: tonight, I have a two-hour class with a couple 6th-graders and lots of young people... they're quiet and shy and boring, and make it really hard
[18:08:49] Corey: last night, I had a "superior" level class, and that was great, those people talk to me the entire class.. the one tonight is the lowest level, so they're all afraid to talk
[18:09:00] Corey: but anyway, it's English practice, not English class, basically :P
[18:09:29] Corey: none of those schools are really like school...
[18:10:08] Corey: they just hire native speakers of the language, point to a room, and say "okay, go teach." this school has a magazine with an article for each class, so I don't have to figure out how to kill 90 minutes by myself
[18:11:51] Corey: next week, I'm moving to an apartment downtown, though... and during those stupid waiting times, I can just walk home, except on Monday where I have 4 hours to kill in another town.... (2 and 2, not 4 at once)
[18:12:25] Corey: those big breaks are for lunch and dinner, but I'd rather just squish it all together and be done with it
[18:13:01] Flami: moving?!
[18:14:07] Corey: getting my own place, yeah
[18:14:44] Flami: that should ease some of the tension around Jane and her parents, maybe
[18:46:00] Corey: it's right by the train station downtown, like a couple minutes to walk to the school, and to go to the school in the other town, it's right by the train station, so that's not bad either. 10-minute train ride away
[18:46:06] Corey: but I'm not there yet, so now I have to leave early and go catch a bus :P
[18:46:08] Corey: so I'll talk to you later
[18:46:12] Flami: okay, later
[17:55:35] Flami: are you alive?
[17:58:53] Corey: yes, are you? :P
[17:59:29] Corey: I have like 20 classes a week now, so I haven't been at home as much
[18:00:32] Flami: of course I'm alive! and you sound busy
[18:03:21] Corey: well, it's kind of annoying... today, I have class at 10:30-12.. then 90 minutes to wait around, then class at 1:30-3, then 30 minutes waiting around, then 3:30-5. then... two hours to wait around.... then I have to go to Zhong Li by train for a two-hour class. so I work 6.5 hours, but I'm out from like 9:40 AM (which is soon, I'm getting ready.. I just woke up) until almost 10 PM
[18:03:31] Corey: too much wasted time
[18:04:14] Flami: wow, that IS a lot of time to just wait around... can you do something like marking during that time?
[18:06:35] Corey: ha
[18:06:39] Corey: you think this is school?
[18:06:55] Flami: I dunno
[18:06:57] Corey: there's no homework or test :P it's like daycare for old people
[18:07:04] Corey: at least the daytime classes
[18:07:18] Flami: you got a job with the geriatrics?
[18:07:23] Corey: we just read an article, and if they don't want it to be boring, they'll ask me lots of questions
[18:07:34] Corey: well, the daytime classes are all old people or housewives
[18:07:41] Corey: everyone else is at school / work
[18:08:09] Corey: tonight, I have a two-hour class with a couple 6th-graders and lots of young people... they're quiet and shy and boring, and make it really hard
[18:08:49] Corey: last night, I had a "superior" level class, and that was great, those people talk to me the entire class.. the one tonight is the lowest level, so they're all afraid to talk
[18:09:00] Corey: but anyway, it's English practice, not English class, basically :P
[18:09:29] Corey: none of those schools are really like school...
[18:10:08] Corey: they just hire native speakers of the language, point to a room, and say "okay, go teach." this school has a magazine with an article for each class, so I don't have to figure out how to kill 90 minutes by myself
[18:11:51] Corey: next week, I'm moving to an apartment downtown, though... and during those stupid waiting times, I can just walk home, except on Monday where I have 4 hours to kill in another town.... (2 and 2, not 4 at once)
[18:12:25] Corey: those big breaks are for lunch and dinner, but I'd rather just squish it all together and be done with it
[18:13:01] Flami: moving?!
[18:14:07] Corey: getting my own place, yeah
[18:14:44] Flami: that should ease some of the tension around Jane and her parents, maybe
[18:46:00] Corey: it's right by the train station downtown, like a couple minutes to walk to the school, and to go to the school in the other town, it's right by the train station, so that's not bad either. 10-minute train ride away
[18:46:06] Corey: but I'm not there yet, so now I have to leave early and go catch a bus :P
[18:46:08] Corey: so I'll talk to you later
[18:46:12] Flami: okay, later
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