So we’re reaching the end of our first two-day weekend since we got to Taiwan. I’m already a little bummed thinking about the fact that I only get one of these weekends. For some reason they only cancelled my Saturday classes for three weeks, and this is the only one that doesn’t have an unusual Hess event happening. Next week we have some kind of banquet on Sunday, and the following Saturday I have to participate in some kind of Chinese New Year festival, despite the fact that Chinese New Year isn’t until February. I can’t wait to have normal hours again.
Regarding the Chinese New Year festival, I asked my manager what I’m supposed to do. She told me, “Sun and moon and…” Then she thought for a minute, then drew a cloud with her finger.
“Cloud?” I asked.
“Yes,” she said. “Sun and moon and clouds.”
“Okay,” I said, nodding slowly, fighting the urge to tell her that even if that had been a complete sentence rahter than a thought fragment, there was still no verb in it. “What do I do?”
“The sun and the moon, and the… the clouds.”
“Uh-huh. What do I do with the sun and moon and clouds?”
She thought for a few more seconds, then let me know she’d tell me later. If past experience factors into it, and I’m fairly certain it will, I’ll find out right before I actually do whatever I’m doing, even if I ask her every day between now and then.
Stupid Hess Language Schools. Don’t work here, please, and if you’re in Taiwan, definitely don’t send your kids here.
January 6, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Seth,
No, you’ve got it wrong. “Moon” was the verb!
Nice to see you’re still enthusiastic about your job. Sorry, I shouldn’t rub it in. Seriously dude, get another job. You’ll feel so much better if you do.
Did I tell you that Ryan (as in my housemate) quit the other day? He doesn’t finish/start until mid-February though. Certainly in the Taoyuan area, they’re having big problems. I heard they simply can’t get new people (it’s apparently going to take them until at least March to replace me) and a heap of people from the November intake have already quit. My HNST even mentioned the other day that at this rate, they’re going to have to close branches.
I’d like to bask in a little schadenfreude and think that I played my own small part if that happens.
Caleb
January 8, 2008 at 3:31 am
” Sun and moon and..the..clouds..”
I’m sorry, but that’s FUNNY!
January 8, 2008 at 3:32 am
Corn-holio.
See?! That’s funny, too!
Make ya laugh?
January 30, 2008 at 2:45 am
Seth,
I can barely type - your Dad is a hoot with that corn-holio - still laughing!
I miss you! Bob and I were just talking about you and I mentioned that I was needing a serious bout of Godzilla, Casey’s pizza and homemade salsa with chips…..
Things are ok here. I had been limping around on a sore foot for a while - finally went to the doctor - found out it was fractured. Oh the joy of the “Herman Munster” boot!
I will email mail you with some rather juicey LMC news later. Also, check out our LMC website and click on Friends and Family newsletters — we have gone high tech! www.lakemaryctr.org
Corn-holios unite!
Love,
Judy