Harry Potter Revisited
Being stuck at a school with no Internet I decided to re-read Harry Potter again. I guess it’s a good way to review for the 6th edition coming out in July. Just finished the second book and still a good 1 and a half hours left. I guess I’m some what excited for the 6th book, Harry Potter the Half Blood Prince. I think that’s the title. I guess everyone wants to know if the prince is Harry or some other character people have not been paying attention too. I know I know I know… I’m a big geek…
Anyway it’s second day at my junior high school. I had the second graders today (8th graders). They weren’t too bad. They were a little more enthusiastic about English and seemed genuinely interested when I was doing my introduction. They also seem to be a little more accepting since no one really laughed and/or started at me today. Some of the students actually came up and talked to me about normal stuff like what kinds of music do I like or if I knew a certain anime. I guess this is what I wanted while teaching at junior high, intellectual conversations about immature issues.
It feels weird being a guest at junior high. It just seems like everyone is busy. I walked around a bit after school thinking that maybe I would be able to join a club by sheer invitation but everyone is into their own work that no one noticed the new teacher, walking around, in a suit. My friend James was here last year and he told me to go hang out with the art club people since they were cool but when I got there they all just stared and then went back to their own business. I guess I could have taken the initiative and started a conversation but I chickened out. Not to mention that the person James said to look for wasn’t there. So what did I do with my afternoon? Played hearts secretively and then changed around all the desktop settings at this computer.
Today I was invited to join the tennis club by the other assistant English teacher. I found out today that she’s only 22! And she already has her own class, responsibilities, and a club to look after. I guess I could go and try to play tennis, but the fear of failure in front of students still holds me back. The teacher told me that she has a lot of first years and many of them were asking about me. (I taught the first years last year at the elementary school I had) I guess they would all be beginners too because you don’t really have clubs at the elementary school level. Unless some are tennis prodigies that have been holding a racket since they were 3 years old. Maybe I’ll go check it out, or even try again with the art club. Totally feels like Intermediate school all over again.
So we have a big tax problem on our hands. Krystal and I found out that we have to owe tons of money to State Taxes. I t turns out that I owe about 700 dollars and Krystal a little more than that. Well what happened is that we got our W2 forms and filled out the tax forms but then for HAWAII we need to include any sort of foreign income that we received in the past year. ISN’T THAT JUST FRICKEN CRAZY?!? To pay taxes for income not made or spent in Hawaii?? Doesn’t make sense at all! Anyway we have to file them since the grace period is 3 years in which we could get audited or some how the government finds out. Supposedly there are a lot of penalties and interest you have to pay if you ignore it. Worse part is that when next year comes around we might have to pay double because the figures that we got are only for half a year! This has got to be the most ASS BACKWARDS thing I’ve heard. Anyway maybe we won’t pay next year since we’ll have no W2 form for the dumb ass tax people to hunt us down. But then again and no one can run from the IRS, if Al Capone couldn’t do it how do we have a chance?
Break It Down
Anyway it’s second day at my junior high school. I had the second graders today (8th graders). They weren’t too bad. They were a little more enthusiastic about English and seemed genuinely interested when I was doing my introduction. They also seem to be a little more accepting since no one really laughed and/or started at me today. Some of the students actually came up and talked to me about normal stuff like what kinds of music do I like or if I knew a certain anime. I guess this is what I wanted while teaching at junior high, intellectual conversations about immature issues.
It feels weird being a guest at junior high. It just seems like everyone is busy. I walked around a bit after school thinking that maybe I would be able to join a club by sheer invitation but everyone is into their own work that no one noticed the new teacher, walking around, in a suit. My friend James was here last year and he told me to go hang out with the art club people since they were cool but when I got there they all just stared and then went back to their own business. I guess I could have taken the initiative and started a conversation but I chickened out. Not to mention that the person James said to look for wasn’t there. So what did I do with my afternoon? Played hearts secretively and then changed around all the desktop settings at this computer.
Today I was invited to join the tennis club by the other assistant English teacher. I found out today that she’s only 22! And she already has her own class, responsibilities, and a club to look after. I guess I could go and try to play tennis, but the fear of failure in front of students still holds me back. The teacher told me that she has a lot of first years and many of them were asking about me. (I taught the first years last year at the elementary school I had) I guess they would all be beginners too because you don’t really have clubs at the elementary school level. Unless some are tennis prodigies that have been holding a racket since they were 3 years old. Maybe I’ll go check it out, or even try again with the art club. Totally feels like Intermediate school all over again.
So we have a big tax problem on our hands. Krystal and I found out that we have to owe tons of money to State Taxes. I t turns out that I owe about 700 dollars and Krystal a little more than that. Well what happened is that we got our W2 forms and filled out the tax forms but then for HAWAII we need to include any sort of foreign income that we received in the past year. ISN’T THAT JUST FRICKEN CRAZY?!? To pay taxes for income not made or spent in Hawaii?? Doesn’t make sense at all! Anyway we have to file them since the grace period is 3 years in which we could get audited or some how the government finds out. Supposedly there are a lot of penalties and interest you have to pay if you ignore it. Worse part is that when next year comes around we might have to pay double because the figures that we got are only for half a year! This has got to be the most ASS BACKWARDS thing I’ve heard. Anyway maybe we won’t pay next year since we’ll have no W2 form for the dumb ass tax people to hunt us down. But then again and no one can run from the IRS, if Al Capone couldn’t do it how do we have a chance?
Break It Down
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