Life and Principals can be so Cruel

Many of my most awkward situations have been orchestrated by two special individuals. One of these is the Mountain Man (more about him later) and the other is Principal Pai. I have many stories about both of these very unique men, but you can't understand my stories until you have a little background on these men. So this is my catch up on principal Pai post.
The Man
Principal Pai is the principal at Hi-Chian elementary character school (only when he says Character he rolls the "r" *grimaces*). He's a good principal and he really cares about his school and about good character. The only thing is he has almost zero personality or sense of humor. Yet, his school has mostly young teachers who like to joke and laugh. He doesn't usually get what other people are laughing about so he tends to laugh awkwardly anytime he thinks someone might have said a joke. Worse than all of this, he wears his pants so stinkin' high! It's awful. So awful. He wears these pleated waist slacks up at his elbows practically. I shouldn't let something so shallow bother me so unbelievably much, but it does.
The butt bumping story
This horrible, horrible event occurred at our school in the evening. We were having a big 6th grade graduation party. You wouldn't believe these Taiwanese people could do it, but they have a huge bonfire and dance around it. It was really fun...watching. That was until I got dragged into the big line dance by the principal and a director. So I got stuck holding hands with the principal and a director lady and doing the chicken dance. In the middle of the circle was a DJ person yelling out commands in Chinese. I had no idea what was going on until suddenly the entire group of students and teachers and principal start bumping butts with each other. When I realized with horror what was going on, I had no time to get away and...you guessed it. The high pantsed principal bumped butts with me! I didn't have time to freak out because other butts were coming at me. So I dodged Taiwanese butts and moved over to where my students were dancing. I guess the command was to bump butts with ten people. Oh lucky me. The next command was to grab 10 people's thighs and then to tickle 10 people. I got out of there quickly! I really had no idea they could be like that!

I have got to learn CHINESE!!!!

So this happened last June and as you can probably tell, I'm scarred for life

What's in a name?

I was looking over my blog posts and I realized I've made a big mistake. I've started out my blog with funny stories, now the day to day feels so boring. Yet, the day to day is why I came. So maybe I should say a little more about what I do here.


I teach.
I love it.
My students are very sweet. I'm lucky to be working with 5th graders, they aren't half as scary as 6th graders. Today some of my students greeted me like "Good afternoon beautiful teacher."
I'm sold.

When I'm not teaching I'm hanging out at the office with various peoples, mostly Naomi. We have an interesting relationship. We're with each other so often we find ourselves making some of the same faces.














I'm not really proud of this