Things people don’t like to hear about from my life story:
1) The beating of children by Thai teachers at both my public and private Thai schools
And how I don’t want to work with kids ever again! It’s like a trauma to see four and five year olds being beaten by your boss and something you can never forget. Also, they hit the 10 and 11 year old children with a stick on their hands. The western teachers and I never beat the kids so they would act out in our classes. It was like a zoo. It was so terrible and there’s really nothing you can do once the kids run around like crazy people. Plus I’m my second school, I had large class sizes of 40 kids which didn’t help at all.
2) Food poisoning
3) Bed bugs
4) Regular bugs, like cockroaches
5) My horrible/ emotionally abusive bosses in Australia
6) My job as an extra that pays minimum wage and what I really think about that horrible job and how the industry is mad racist and sexist.
7) Oh and the cultures of both the US and Australia are racist and sexist! At my jobs and other places I’ve experienced this many a time. Then people make assumptions or exceptions oh it’s just old people that are racist or sexist, but no it can be anyone! Eww!
8) My negativity about working.
9) Sometimes I like working and sometimes I hate it, when you work in a crazy foreign country, certain things can annoy you and piss you off more, just because many things about the culture are very different. It doesn’t make it easier and many times these countries have a polite culture where they don’t tell you directly about many things and someone else will tell you what the problem is after they have already discussed it in the local language behind your back. Like both Thailand and Ukraine.
10) When I was fired from my first job in Ukraine. It was humiliating at first but it was so easy to get another job like really, it was nbd. Oh you’re from the US, you’re not a dude from Nigeria, or a guy here for sex tourism, oh sure, you can come work for us.
11) I’m not from here, so I don’t know many things like the language and maybe the courtesies and the way they do things here might be way different.
12) I don’t really have real friends yet here because I’m working all the time. Some colleagues are friendly, but they’re my work colleagues and then you have students who are like super fans or think I have some God given knowledge just because I’m from the US and they want advice about their lives. I’m not a therapist or a life coach, like. There aren’t many people I can actually talk to truthfully about things and many times I feel like people want something from me. Like many relationships will not be equal simply because I’m from the US, because of money. It’s ironic though, I’m really not making that much money here anyways.
13) So there you have it folks the worst of the worst. Abusive situations can happen anywhere not just in Thailand or Australia, or the US.
14) Don’t even get me started on politics and being an American expat in the times of a political upheaval in the US. I can’t even say the terrible fuckers’ name. I was abroad throughout the campaign and the election, eww omg, eww! Just how fucking dumb are people, really?!?! I voted for Bernie Sanders in the Primaries and Hillary Clinton in the election. I voted by fax when I was in Thailand! That’s how fucking great I am. #yougottatryatleast #notmygovernment #notmypresident #ivoted #expatlife #dontremindme #Bernie #Hillary
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