I live within a housing compound that consists of 5 teachers (which includes me). On my right lives my JTE (Japanese Teacher of English) who I teach 3 of my classes with. Let’s call him CG. He is shy, is passionate about basketball and probably devotes all his time to the basketball team in school. Someone once labelled him a ‘herbivore – or a grass eating man’ which in japanese basically means he is a new age guy who is mild.
Living next to me is a PE teacher who moved in recently. Let’s call him S. I don’t know anything about him cept that he drives a big toyota land rover-ish car, understands a little english, and trains the basketball team with CG. He is also very quiet in his house and all i ever hear through thin walls are the washing machine at 12midnight and footsteps. I think he probably hates me. I put on music, talk to myself, laugh uproariously while watching TV and whine while skyping. it’s good he is only home after 7. and no. I do not evasdrop. the walls are REALLY that thin. I try to be quiet but it is hard.
On my left lives a home economics teacher. a dear lady with a nice garden that reminds me of home. She is always smiling, takes notice when guys visit me, and is perpetually taking photos. I like her a lot.
On my far left lives a maths? teacher and his wife. I hardly speak to them at all because they are so far away and I nEVER see his wife. However. he is nice and waves to me when he sees me. I wish I could communicate more.
so here’s a picture of where I live
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- a sunny saturday afternoon
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- First thought – OMG. I live in a container box.
