sexta-feira, 27 de janeiro de 2012

Diary of a Wimpy Teacher (Chapter 1)


Before the beginning

Hello, my name is Richard Smith and I am an English teacher in a small city from Brazil. I am going to tell you everything about my life as a teacher and a little bit of my life a person, too! But I wasn't a teacher since my childhood, sure. First I worked in an accountant office! But I wasn’t an accountant; I was an office-boy. But now any one, the best one! Well…not really! I enjoyed my life as an office-boy. It was funny for me. I was used to meet all of my friends around the city and talk to them personally (not by facebook) and know what was going on in the city and the things were about to happen, specially the parties, where I could meet the “chicks”! Yes! I had dates and went out with my friends a lot! All of my salary (not much) I spent with nice clothes and going out. My family wasn’t rich but we had no problems about money. I just started to work to have my own and spend with the things I appreciate better. Remember I am a teacher nowadays, but as I am starting to tell you about my life some year before I became an English teacher. Just to show that a teacher is also people like you and have a normal life, with not normal friends and not so normal situations.

The promotion!

Working for 3 years as an office boy, walking every day to the bank and clients around my city, talking to my friends and learning many kinds of super funny jokes I was promoted! That’s right! I was promoted! But it was in that moment the worst thing that happened to my life. Imagine, my life became (me + a desk + a calculator + a computer) there weren’t (daylight + friends + beautiful girls + walking + jokes) anymore. I really didn’t enjoy my “promotion”. It was promotion of work not a promotion of my job! And the money was pretty much the same I had before. Well, it was depressing! Oh yeah, it was! I was there sitting on my desk pushing buttons all day long looking at the window and seeing the other office-boys walking and chatting around; beautiful girls smiling on the streets, the stores I could enter and check the things I liked were there and I was sitting in my cubicle pressing buttons and calculating taxes! SO BORING! If I had a gun I would have probably killed myself. No…just kidding. It wasn’t so boring. I had coworkers and they were nice guys.
My coworkers

At first I have to present a girl that showed and taught me everything since the first day I entered in that office in a summer afternoon wearing a baseball cap backwards and she wearing a very nice red dress that I as if it were yesterday. Tammy was her name! She was one the loveliest person I have ever met in my life and we worked together for about 3 years and it was great. She had a boyfriend for many years and I had a crush on her for many more years. But I will tell you more about that later, ok? As a coworker I had more six women working at the office and a new boy, the new office boy Robson, or just Bob, “the player” because he was also or simply wanted to be a soccer player and that was his passion. So as mine! I loved soccer and we had a great time talking about our favorite soccer teams. He was a funny guy that loved cookies and milk, every time he had the chance he went to the kitchen’s office to eat some cookies and iced milk and sometimes there were some leftovers for me, too. Good. About the other 6 women I won’t waste time talking about them, just imagine six women having their periods at the same day of the month every month, with a jerk husband and some clothes to wash when at home. Do you want to know the secret to handle with them? Praise every painted nail, new clothes or trim of hair they did. You were the champion around them. Now it is time to work and sometimes check “a new thing” called internet some Nerds have just created and it was completely addictive! 

(To be continued...)

segunda-feira, 1 de agosto de 2011

Welcome Back Students!

Well...it's time to come back to school after having some rest at home or after traveling to a different place far from our same old spot. I am happy to see everybody again ready to start over. I hope you are also happy to see me again, too! I am sure we will have a great semester, full of new jokes, stories, discussions, ideias and ...English! So...see you around! And don't forget to give me a UPAAAA when you see me, ok?

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