Staff Party
My school, Intercultura, organizes a get together at an all-inclusive resort once a year for their entire staff, both Spanish and English. This year we went to Fiesta all-inclusive and got silly. Intercultura trulky is an original school. Mornings and afternoons are reserved for tourists that come to learn Spanish. Starting at 4 the school transforms into an English school. I teach eight different classes averaging about eight students a class. The majority of the English teachers are Americans, which makes for interesting conversation. All are anti-Bush, which did not surprise me considering they already had an open mind to leave the States and see something different. I do notice a difference however, in how Americans are received over here compared to people from other countries. The most open feelings come out of course when there are no Americans in the room. I personally don’t see much difference between this staff compared to any staff I have worked with back home, so I don’t fully understand the statements made by others that there are huge differences between us and them.
posted by Costa Rica Life at 11:18 AM
2 Comments:
Patrick your blatant anti-americanism is both offensive and repugnant. Here, I sent this to you in an email but I figured it would be best to post it on your blog to let all of your readers know how I feel about the irony in your attitude. One could say your opinion of America and Americans is... well... pretty sterotypically American in its ignorance. This post is from one of our favourite American stand-up comic and actors.
Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.
Robin Williams' plan... (Hard to argue with this logic!)
"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for Peace. So, here's one plan."
1) The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those "good ole boys", we will never "interfere" again.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.
3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and
leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, Regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more
cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.
6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing non-polluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou
will have to cope for a while.
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we'll go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of us know that what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer.
11) The Language we speak is ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE...
What a nasty alien!!!
Patrick, you can be a blatan, anti-americanism, offensive and repungnant, but he certainly does not fall behind you.
We have enough war in this world already for you two to be at one.
Lets the grown up to do their job, and if you both, can not do anything to change the way things go now, you both LEAVE IT¨¨¨¨ Until you become god one day hmmmm which i doubt! to be able to change this world into peace.
And by the way I love Robin Williams.
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