The little things.......

Mostly i just write good news on this blog, giving everyone the impression that everything is all peaches and pears over here in japan. As much as i would like to say that everything is like that, there are days here where u find that even the smallest of things piss u off. Lately, little things have been getting to me and i dont know why. Maybe its the heat, maybe its the fact that my workload has trebled in the last few months, or maybe it is the fact that its been two and a half years and im still in a long time relationship (soon to become a normal relationship by the end of the month).
I love Japan, dont get me wrong, but i think once uve lived in a country for a period of time like most of us JETs have, u get to see the not-so-good-anal-retentive side of Japan that they dont tell u about in the brochures. Things that have been pissing me off lately have been:

1. japanese people who make u feel guilty if u dont eat spew-shoku (school lunch) and who watch u eat something and ask u straight away if its good or not. LET ME EAT IN PEACE!
2. the same people reminding u that u havent eaten spew-shoku and then ask if ur okay

3. my retarded new supervisor who is so stupid hed fuck a golf club if u gave him one. he honestly doesnt know anything when i go to him for help. he goes straight on the phone to the BOE main office to ask them, and even they rarely know what to do either. INCOMPETENT knobs!

4. schools who dont inform me of timetable changes and continually keep doing the same thing week after week offering me their lame apologies.

5. when kids who are usually genki as hell turn into dumbasses and think that english is a waste of time.... but kids will be kids i spose and i have been lucky that i have pretty well mannered kids.

6. my eikaiwa class where people only come when they feel like it, leaving me trying to teach to three people after preparing material, with games that would ideally suit the original numbers. Then those students who have no confidence in their ability even when u tell them that theyve done really well. Or those other students who only go to class to listen to english and when u ask them a question they turn into a tree stump and make a stupid grin!

7. this computer at my boe.....fuck, it takes like 10 minutes to load up when u turn it on

8. when no matter how many times u teach people about australian football, they think its soccer or rugby. and when u show them an australian football, they still call it a rugby ball!

9. my girlfriend when it comes to returning videos. oh boy is she a video nazi. shes worked at a video store for 5 years and cant stand it when u dont return a video by the due date. my god she gets so worked up about that shit! hehe

10. how quiet it is where i live and how everything is over a half an hours drive away

11. kids blank faces when u ask them questions uve practised with them for so long! it gets frustrating at times

12. the fact that my JTE never has the time to sit down with me to prepare for lessons and shit. like the other day she comes up to me and says, "i want u to make the speaking test for grade 1 and 2." thats all she said to me and then pissed off to let the kids rape her or something

13. getting red notes on garbage bags if u dont take all the coke labels off a bottle

14. when my JTE keeps making grammatical errors and then making the kids learn it that way

15. the fact that my JTE gets me to do the same routine at the start of every english lesson. "Good morning! how are you? hows the weather? what day is it?" and then i have to read a passage of the textbook for the dictation followed by chanthing out the words in the kids' bingo books!

16. or when students question my pronunciation of words and tell me im wrong. fuck off, what the hell do they know. or even when my JTE asks me if u can really say things that i say sometimes.

thats all i can think of for now! im sorry to bore u all with this but i need to get some of this shit off my chest coz the english ability of the people in my village can be compared to a tree stump... and boy, there are a lot of those around here!