She Works Hard For The Money
My dream job is to work from home, being paid to read, play games, write, and sleep. Unfortunately society has yet to see what a major contribution this would be from me and I have not found someone willing to pay me for these valuable skills. Thus I am daily forced to leave the comfort of my bed to do a “real job”. Fortunately, I quite like my real job.* That job, if you were wondering dear reader, is teacher. English teacher, to be specific.
One of the things I like about my job is that we are allowed, and encouraged, to show our personality when teaching. Liking pro-wrestling is a significant part of who I am, so mentions of it pop up during lessons from time to time. Take, for example, when I had to teach about the past tense. One unit addresses usage of the past tense in relation to changes in states of being (e.g. "In spring it was X, now it is Y.") This was being taught in October and King of Pro-Wrestling happened during the lessons in the unit, so I used the results as an example.
There was some actual shock that a white dude was both wrestling and won a title in Japan, which made me laugh.
I also included the following as another example because of Shota challenging ZSJ (and to highlight the change in singular and plural personal pronouns. Yeah grammar!):
If you are wondering, dear reader, how my students feel about my love of pro-wrestling, the attitude is generally initial bemusement, followed by continual amusement. I'm not the sort of monster that would force kids to hear about something they hated or that bored them to tears. And one day I will write about one of my favorite students and his reaction when he found out that he wasn't the only pro-wrestling fan in school. But that's a post for another day.
*At least most of the time anyway.
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