My dad's welsh (british), my mum's american. I was born in the united states but we moved to wales when I was a year old and that's where I grew up. I'm a dual citizen, so I can vote in both places. One year I think I managed to vote in the welsh assembly elections, the british general election and the american general election. I AM A VOTING WHORE.
Awesome - are you a teacher? I'm getting a little better at it already, but I'm still not great at it and of course the mentality of the students is a big part of it, so different classes take different lengths of time to do things, and they'll do it faster if they're in a good mood and slower if it's a lesson they really can't be bothered with right now. And of course, when teaching six year olds there's the wonderful discrepancy between the kids who rush through everything and yell, "Teacher, finished!" after two minutes and want something else to do immediately and start trying to sneakily do their one-page of workbook for the next day like I can't see them, and the kids who do thing slowly, methodically and panic and complain if you try to make them hurry/stop because it's the end of the lesson.
Of course, none of them speaking more than basic english! ;)
FUN TIMES!
I wish I could take pictures too, but I don't have a phone/phone camera or digital camera. I can take pictures on my PSP but I have to plug in the camera attachment, etc. which takes a few minutes and that's not even detailing the fact it'd probably be impossible to do so surreptitiously since I'm usually being watched.
Being part of an ethnic minority for the first time is interesting. Where I live, aside from my three coteachers at the school, I've seen - in the last five weeks - three people who aren't Korean/Chinese/Japanese in ethnicity and none of them were white.
It's not threatening (since it's neither coming from a background of hundreds of years of entrenched violence, nor are the negative white people stereotypes here rooted in violence), but it's interesting. Small children stare at me in unabashed bogglement!
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Date: 2008-09-04 04:18 pm (UTC)My dad's welsh (british), my mum's american. I was born in the united states but we moved to wales when I was a year old and that's where I grew up. I'm a dual citizen, so I can vote in both places. One year I think I managed to vote in the welsh assembly elections, the british general election and the american general election. I AM A VOTING WHORE.
Awesome - are you a teacher? I'm getting a little better at it already, but I'm still not great at it and of course the mentality of the students is a big part of it, so different classes take different lengths of time to do things, and they'll do it faster if they're in a good mood and slower if it's a lesson they really can't be bothered with right now. And of course, when teaching six year olds there's the wonderful discrepancy between the kids who rush through everything and yell, "Teacher, finished!" after two minutes and want something else to do immediately and start trying to sneakily do their one-page of workbook for the next day like I can't see them, and the kids who do thing slowly, methodically and panic and complain if you try to make them hurry/stop because it's the end of the lesson.
Of course, none of them speaking more than basic english! ;)
FUN TIMES!
I wish I could take pictures too, but I don't have a phone/phone camera or digital camera. I can take pictures on my PSP but I have to plug in the camera attachment, etc. which takes a few minutes and that's not even detailing the fact it'd probably be impossible to do so surreptitiously since I'm usually being watched.
Being part of an ethnic minority for the first time is interesting. Where I live, aside from my three coteachers at the school, I've seen - in the last five weeks - three people who aren't Korean/Chinese/Japanese in ethnicity and none of them were white.
It's not threatening (since it's neither coming from a background of hundreds of years of entrenched violence, nor are the negative white people stereotypes here rooted in violence), but it's interesting. Small children stare at me in unabashed bogglement!