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To advertise a discounted TOEIC test preparation class, one of the Japanese teachers at my school made magnetic signs featuring a grim-faced Golgo 13 and some flashy statements about the cheaper price. She stuck the signs in the upper left corner of the whiteboards in every classroom where they could grab the attention of students during lessons. Though it was pretty cool to have Duke Togo looking at me during the day, the sign got in the way when I stuck practice cards on to the whiteboard and took up space I needed for writing. My annoyance with the sign grew so great that I finally moved it to the lower left where it wouldn't obstruct my teaching. Some days, however, after another teacher had used my classroom, I couldn't help but notice that the sign would be blocking the upper corner of the whiteboard again. We played a back-and-forth game for about a week until I took to shifting the sign back to the upper corner myself every time I left the room for fear of getting a talking-to.
If that's not the perfect metaphor for how English conversation schools in Japan operate, I don't know what is.
2 comments:
LOL, wow. It's the complete opposite in Wales. Someone would probably steal the sign here, or it would get lost because no one pays any attention. That or the person making the sign would be two weeks late in delivering it!
~Bre
I can only wish that Japanese orders got lost in the shuffle like that.
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