After previously teaching 25 Essential Australian Words and Phrases, I felt it was only fair to show you the language of academia in Australia as well.
“In English, Sarah is having a rip snorter. Sure, she had a barry crocker on her recent exam, but if she doesn’t drop her bundle, she’ll be apples.”
It’s Day 4 of my three-week Vietnam tour during the September holidays — just one of the four term-break holidays during the school year in Australia. (more…)
He looked familiar.
Of course, that sort of thing happens to me all of the time. Once, in Kingston, working the counter of the LCBO I greeted a woman from the cafe I used to work in Orangeville like an old friend.
It turned out I didn’t know her at all.
‘Nigger’ is a word white people don’t get to use. My Year 8 students ask me why: “Black people call each other that all the time, Miss!”
I stammer: “There’s connotations—meanings—in that word that suggests ‘hate’, when white people say it to black people.”
My students constantly voice their disgust for things by saying, “That’s gay!”
As a female teacher, who also happens to be married to a woman, (more…)
After any day of teaching, I feel exhausted. I worked three jobs at a time throughout the five years I went to university full-time and I’ve never found myself so exhausted as the years since I’ve been teaching–and I’m getting so much more sleep now!
Add to this, the fact that everyone commutes to work in big sprawly Melbourne (even though I agree the sprawl factor makes it more interesting). Taking the tram from Richmond to the CBD (side-by-side subburbs) takes 45 minutes.
I also have someone in my life, my partner, whom I love to spend time with.
Needless to say, exercise is usually the first thing to get dropped when I get home 12 hours later. (more…)
As you start out learning to blog, I have three pieces of advice: (more…)
Is the term “gay” changing, yet again? Is it a homophobic comment? Should teachers, teach students not to say it? Here’s what I’ve found…
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For those of you new or old to blogging, I came across a great post on ProBlogger. There’s a really helpful video that explains how you can track traffic. Then on the comments (more…)
At a car dealership recently, a salesman admitted to me that when he sees teachers coming, “he runs”. As a waitress, a colleague once stiffed, “bloody teachers never tip”.
We have long been regarded as stingy. And most sales people that we have to deal with dislike our supposed thriftiness. So what I’m wondering is–where does it come from? Is it just a stereotype of a poor few or is there a reason behind this (over?) statement? (more…)
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