Teachers Appreciation Week

To ease rush hour traffic, the school has to station five or 
six teachers to help getting kids faster out of cars. I didn't
know, but it must be required by city code. Teachers
Appreciation week, I signed up to spend 25min each morning
doing just that. We lined up along the transit area, opened
the car doors, and took the kids' bags to speed up things.

It was interesting that although the school consisted of 
mostly Indian and Asian kids, demographically, few volunteers
were Indian (I saw one or two Indian dads one day). I
wondered why. Did most Indian parents see this work as
belonging to only the shudras in their caste system? For
people who see the world hierachically, what a letdown
America must be? What would the teachers feel everyday,
having to provide this service for families often ostensibly
wealthier than theirs? If I were a teacher, would I be
depressed for my financial inferiority or feel strong and
can smile from my heart?

I noticed other things that I would miss had I not volunteered.
Almost every driver stared at a screen, some nicest-looking
cars had the messiest interiors, and the most beatiful flowers
for teachers could be from a lovely girl whose dad came in
late and parked his car blocking the path.

Our gimbap was a big hit. The parent-provided lunch on Thu 
mostly was store-bought. Not only was ours home-made (we
didn't even sign up for bringing lunch) but its quality won
praises from Koreans such as Ms. Kay and Ms. Ho. Tim was the
driver this time and of course I had to gather everything and
get up to make it at 5:00am. It was worth making him proud. 

[7grizzly]

Finally the idea came to me how to deal with people like the guy who blocked the transit.
This was inspired by Taleb. I will threaten to take his and his car's pictures.

[7grizzly]

回複 '暖冬cool夏' 的評論 : Thank you, 暖冬, for you kind comments. Tim's often a big motivation for me to do things.

> Indians culture may have an issue.
It may as well have, although doesn't every other culture ;-)
But I have found something interesting about the group I work with.
More on that later.

Happy Mother's Day!

[暖冬cool夏]

You are such a loving and diligent person that your contribution to the class and the community will be remembered out of few Asian participations. Good for Tim too as he grows up, having you as his role model. Indians culture may have an issue, as I recently saw more clearly from my new department head, very dishonest:).