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Q: well its that time of year again
tonight and Friday night we have the childrens Christmas party at the kindergarten as always I have to be Santa.photos with the children and giving out gifts.
my theme music tonight is AC/DC thunderstruck.
would you be Santa if you worked in a kindergarten? would you do it if you were asked to do it?
I always put my own spin on Santa as I dont really like doing it.but all the children know its me and it makes the job a lot more easy.
Go for it Rob....good luck!
I did it at a kindy in QD run by a pommy mate of mine 5 years ago and it was a fun night. For my efforts he shouted me a night on the Asahi at a Jap joint in town. It was draught, like...from a keg. Fantabulastic!! I drank enought for about 10 men and it cost the bugger a fortune. Ho ho ho....
I have part-time gig in new Training mill, and we're still negotiating about pay per hour. I'm working with few students on TOEFL prep, and some pre-school kids classes. Will have IELTS prep. in a month or so.
They offered me full-time in June 2016, with showing me their 'laowai hire authorization', a tad thicker booklet than our FEC.
So, they asked me to be Santa this Sat. We'll host parents with kids, who aren't enrolled in mill, yet. It's my first time Santa roll, and I'm not sure, how should I address the kids. I mean, which language I should use? If I'll talk English, they'll know it's me
. I'll just go with German or Italian.....I requested 1kg bag of good candies also.
I'm not saying 'no' to anything they ask me to do, however I want to be paid for that. Boss told me, they'll give me some money, but not how much.
I offered them to observe Chinese teachers classes, and correct the teachers, first.
IMO in China, FTs should teach and correct Chinese English teachers, not students that much. 'Saving face' is huge obstacle to my idea.
I also showed them some web links for printing Flash cards, kids songs and similar.
I demand high pay by Henan standards (not high by this Board), and I'm not sure how that will ended up.
I. Will. Never. Be. Santa.
icnif77:
Would you do this: ''last year during 'bad-air-garbage-everywhere-news-campaign'' they asked me to act (as a foreigner) on high-school Campus, who drops paper waste on the floor, and gets 'schooled' by High school students, as 'dispose garbage in the waste basket, not on the floor'."
Head told me, he needs video for his Master degree thesis. LOL.....Last year, I was alarmed and too embarrassed to write about it here. I think, they show it to new arrivals (Grade 7) to the School.
Campus here is beautiful with loads of tended small flower gardens and trash cans everywhere.
This city is known by flowers and hosts 'Chrysantemum Fair' every June.
icnif77:
What bothered me the most was West isn't full of garbage as China is. Taking bus ride anywhere in China, and see plastic bags hanging of the trees or on freshly farmed plots.
I would never drop paper on the floor doesn't matter where I am. I'd rather carry it in my pocket to the first basket.
They wanted to show to kids, how is foreigners fault for dirty air, and similar. Chinese reason is different than ours. I should decline that acting, I know. But, I didn't.
Few months earlier I was applying for Z in Chinese Embassy in my home. Ambassador was asking me 'how China is dirty, and such...', and I replied: 'Depends, where you are. In Xinjiang, they wash the roads twice a day...... '
I'm super nice at Embassies similar as I always call cop 'Sir.....' LOL
Thunderstruck is the best theme music for almost any occasion.
I might benevolently volunteer, because little kids are cute and I like to make them happy.
If my employer had the nerve to ask tjat of meI would definitely say 'no,' and 'screw you.' I have a degree in linguistics from the top public school in my country, and I have almost a decade of experience teaching in some form or the other. If an employer is in a society too shallow to parlay that into face, that is his problem, not mine. I am no one's white clown.
And treating native teachers like they are a source of entertainment, rather than a venue for learning, is exactly what is wrong with Enlglish education in East Asia.
What have Michael Jackson and Santa Claus got in common? They both hate it when they get caught emptying their sacks out in front of children.
I did it once and I'm glad I will never be at a language mill again. Though honestly as language mills go being Santa probably isn't the most humiliating thing you'll have to do.
Go for it Rob....good luck!
I did it at a kindy in QD run by a pommy mate of mine 5 years ago and it was a fun night. For my efforts he shouted me a night on the Asahi at a Jap joint in town. It was draught, like...from a keg. Fantabulastic!! I drank enought for about 10 men and it cost the bugger a fortune. Ho ho ho....
AC/DC Thunderstruck will be used for the last part of the party,those of you that no the song,you know the guitar part at the start of the song well i will come out to that and when they start saying thunder I will shout of over the microphone and say Santa.
