Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen Unhappiness Begins

Part of my job as the sixth grade tutor is to try to create a pleasant working atmosphere among my colleagues.But, unfortunately, the staff lounge is always lifeless. First of all, just the matter of the teacher's roll call gave me a headache.If someone asked for leave and didn't show up, I had to arrange for other reluctant teachers to help out.The teachers here are divided into two factions - the sour and cool school and the hardworking school.Teachers who adhere to the traditional blackboard teaching method are almost inclined to sigh and sneer at the school of "I knew it would be like this".

But what about Padida?She had a pretentious smile on her face, and now she came up with a set of good excuses, "I really want to help! But I'm too busy just monitoring everyone's work status! " This is what she said today. I just asked her to be responsible for paying attention to the situation on the playground after class. "I know you'll find it a little embarrassing for your colleagues to inspect your teaching work, yes, but Claude—I mean Principal Shi Hao, really wants us to do our best to meet the standards of the inspector's inspection, and we'd better do it Do as his brother wants. You also know that I am a person who is always thinking about others, and I really want to help you." She sighed aggrievedly.

Our tiny staff lounge, located in a block directly behind the children's cafeteria, has rusty and yellowed furnishings and tattered armchairs.Because the lounge is located behind the student cafeteria, it is also nicknamed the "germ nest", and at this time, a group of teachers are frantically trying to make a cup of tea or coffee before the clock strikes. Padida replied to me in a very loud voice, as if she was afraid that others might not hear her.The apple cores were piled up into a hill in the ashtray, and the empty branches and banana peels left after the grapes were eaten were thrown on the ground. Colleagues clearly saw it, but they all looked very careless—presumably this was the case. That's why I became a teacher!As a teacher's unique tone, it is really hard for me to resist!

I inhale, filled with the smell of wet children's shoes, mixed with the smell of sourdough spread sandwiches.I shrugged my shoulders pretending not to care, and in order to divert the curiosity of other teachers, I quickly took out a stack of biology class homework that I had just received, and read aloud: "Once a person lives to be eight years old, he will want to quickly become a teacher." A compassionate person." I couldn't help but burst out laughing after reading it. Although I was smiling on the surface, I was actually churning chaotically inside.I have already asked Shi Gao to reconsider and not send Padida to supervise us, but because the imminent inspection by the inspector has already annoyed him enough, so he can only use "inspector" like a robot. Come quickly! Padida must supervise your class!" and other orders to prevaricate me.

To make matters worse, after school I had to spend time in my opponent's classroom, where there were piles of fun-looking toys, egg-shaped rag dolls, decorative flowers, and weird signs that only sold in weird stores. Holding a red pen, showing her usual contrived smiling face, she changed all the provocative words written in my teaching notes and changed them into some ridiculous slogans that seemed high-sounding but in fact completely incomprehensible, such as "The commitment and obligation of the team Put it into action" and "clarify the role played by the individual and the position of responsibility and obligation" and the like.

This smart woman in front of me changed my original teaching goal - "Tomorrow should continue to cope with yesterday's challenges" into "Cultivate the ability to solve problems quickly" and "Eliminate teaching obstacles". Meaningful nonsense, it's the ultimate shit! What this woman wrote was so devious that I couldn't figure out the meaning of every word, and now, I feel like I've fallen into a Seventh-day Adventist recruiting trap. I really can't stand it anymore, so I just tell her the teaching goals of my nature class! "Don't worry," I said happily to Padida. "Compared with theoretical teaching methods, I'm more planning practical teaching plans! I plan to take our class to the Science Museum for off-campus teaching."

Sister Paddy's self-professional arrogance was extinguished by me. "But the Science Museum told me that the tours they offer to schools are fully booked! I just called last week to ask." "Yes! But I ordered it a year ago!" I waved my fingers arrogantly, making it clear that I had a fight with her. However, after half an hour, things suddenly took a big turn, and I was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. "Sorry! I can't agree to your application for off-campus teaching at the Science Museum." The principal said to me in a bad tone. "The last time you were teaching outside the London Zoo, one of the things that bothered me was telling the kids to rush to the car park as they left the zoo for the tour bus, yelling, 'Get away! The animals have come out!' I also heard that you scared the other tourists and caused a big commotion. Mr. O'Connor, do you think it is really appropriate to handle things in this way?"

The principal's expression was indeed quite serious, and everyone around him began to sweat coldly, feel embarrassed, and felt uncomfortable. "Uh... this... uh..." Please!Why are you doing this?I thought to myself.Even a tortoise with a shrunken head will always stick its head out to find a way out! "Back then the kids were tired and I just wanted to lift their spirits." I try to comfort myself that there are a lot of worse jobs in the world, such as judges in Baghdad, people who work for mafia bosses, experts in animal excrement, and thawing Walt Disney's head People, or people who helped former North Korean Communist leader Kim Il Sung taste the food to see if it was poisoned, etc.

"The situation at that time was very interesting!" I am a little embarrassed to make a conclusion. "You think it's funny, don't you? Do you know how much backlash this caused in school?" rebound?Isn't it just my colleague talking behind my back?On the day of the zoo's off-campus teaching, the only staff member besides me was Padida! "Hello! I didn't disturb your conversation, did I?" Padida's brisk voice came from the door when they said everyone had arrived.She put a cup of strong tea on the principal's table, "I think, you should have a refreshing cup of tea!"

To be honest, this woman is really my nemesis, and nothing good will happen if she is around. "Cathy, do you want me to help you with something?" When she said this, her smile was really kind! Yes, yes!You can help me pull out the knife stabbed in my back! "No thanks." If Padida were a dog, I would be the tree she peed on.I told myself that I must not be led by the nose by her, because once the situation turned into her advantage, I would die miserably in the future. But I didn't realize it at the time, and I was on the verge of danger... "Okay! Now the word 'individual training' has a new definition." This was after listening to our Boy Eater representative, Jess, report her latest male hunting results after tennis lessons that day, My only thoughts.

Hannah, Jess and I took turns sparring at the tennis courts in Regent's Park, while Jamie and Jenny took tennis lessons at a nearby court. "Ouch! Jess," Hannah called out suddenly.She has been watching the tennis coach mentioned in the topic with a small binoculars for a while, "I advise you not to provoke him, you are old enough to be his mother!" "Sisters, I know this! On this earth, all men who have grown up are the same to me now. You can choose from vegetables and radishes." Hannah adjusted the lens a few times indiscriminately, then put the binoculars close to my eyes, and a muscular man suddenly appeared in sight. "Wow! Jess, this guy is so hot! I see, I'm going to report your behavior to social welfare, so he will become mine! Okay, where did you do it?" I started to investigate News, looking around like gossip paparazzi. "In the club?" "Of course not Lo! We did it at his house." Jess sat down on the grass and relaced her tennis shoes. "He...uh...lives with some old friends." "You mean his parents? You did that at his parents' house?" Hannah said in disbelief. "Honey, that's not fun! Does the tennis coach know you have other men?" ?” "I don't know! Don't tell him, he is still a little tender! He only slept with me, because I told him that it was my first time, oh! Anyway, it is the first time besides my husband. Time! Anyway, I was right when I said that day was the first time I had sex outside!" My laughter got stuck in my throat as I glanced across the court and couldn't get it out. "What are you doing!?" "She probably just missed being a beast..." Before Hannah could finish her sarcasm, I was interrupted by my frantic pointing into the distance and waving my hand. why?Because right across the court, I saw Bianca!She was wearing a flawless white tennis skirt, and her hair was pulled up in a neat bun, which looked like a ball of slightly burnt puffs. "Who is that?" Jie Si, who was tying his shoelaces, raised his head and asked listlessly. "Bianca - my husband and I's marriage counselor. I haven't been to her class for weeks, I told her I had terminal flu, and today I left another note saying I'm dying of illness." Jess followed my gaze and looked over, "No way! I know her!" "Really? You and Stuart also went to do marriage counseling?" This time it really scared me. "No, her daughter has swimming lessons too, you know that! Just swimming lessons, at the YMCA, where Josh takes swimming lessons. Her daughter's name is Serene Tippetty, and she goes to the same school as yours." Don't you know, sweetheart?" "No, I didn't even know she had a daughter. Poor child!" "It's not too late for you to know. Bianca only dresses her daughter in cotton from the Fairtrade Foundation and sends her daughter to swimming lessons with lentil sandwiches made from artisanal rye bread. The way that woman looks at people She didn't feel it at all, and she once told me that she believed that when other mothers talked about her, they would say: "How did she understand those concepts? What a creative!" Huh! Tell you, in fact, those mothers really Saying: 'Quick! Hide! Here she comes!'" "Quick! Hide!" I found myself saying, "Here she comes!" Immediately I ducked down and hid behind a potted bush. "Why did you go to her for counseling?" Jess said with a smile on her face, "This woman is exaggerating! Hasn't she sat on your husband's lap yet? She has long been famous for "taking care" of other husbands She is a veritable female version of Vikings. She also has an affair with a swimming coach and two parents and fathers! That’s right! Women with husbands should be careful of this vixen.” "Yeah?" For some reason, my stomach started to hurt, and I suddenly felt like I wanted to go to the toilet. "Not only that, she also has marriage hunger and thirst." Jess emphasized, "Marriage, divorce, marriage, divorce...seeing this kind of women who take marriage as a daily routine, does it make you start to doubt the so-called 'total marriage'? Is it clichéd to die forever? How is she qualified to teach husbands and wives how to get along? It's so ridiculous!" Jess sneered. I stared suspiciously at the sky, why does it seem that there is a feeling of a dark cloud covering the top?If only I wasn't so timid and useless.Looks like I need a cowardly resection!Want it now! "Oh! Isn't this Caesandra? I'm so happy for you that you recovered so quickly, but I'm just a little sorry that you didn't come to class." To my amazement, I responded with a stinkin' face that was so mean. "I think, from today onwards, I will never go to class again, and I mean it." At this time, I felt as if I had been reborn, with a different momentum and a thicker skin. "Yeah? I thought Roy had made a lot of progress after taking my marriage self-help course!" "Don't you think the Marriage Self-Help course sounds ironic?" I provoked her bluntly, as if I understood it. Although Jess and Hannah were taken aback by my abnormal counterattack, they supported me with warm applause. "It's a pity that your attitude towards marriage is not as firm as your husband's. I really feel sorry for you!" Bianca said excitedly. "If I continue to listen to you, it will be a ghost! I will be sent to a mental hospital sooner or later." I also told Lowe about these things that night.I've had enough of having my marriage at the mercy of others. It feels like my self-esteem is powered by the sun for heat, but it's been raining for days.I don't want to go on like this anymore!I don't want to live by looking at other people's faces anymore! The next morning, instead of canceling the off-campus teaching at the Science Museum as the principal had said, I urged the students to ask their parents to write petition letters to the principal to express their disappointment. I also sent an e-mail to Bianca to cancel the future counseling sessions, but things didn't go my way, even if I didn't want to listen to her nonsense, she would come to me like hell! Bianca just has a way of appearing like a ghost, it really stumps me!Let’s use an analogy, it’s like you don’t remember eating carrots at all, but you can see carrot residue in the things you spit out!Ugh...Lowy and I don't even remember that we ever invited Bianca, but she damn well showed up and was everywhere. First, at one point, she popped up at a pet consultant event, but as far as I know, she doesn't own a pet. And one day in June, we met her in Canton Township and said her washing machine was out of order, and then what?She used her sexy show, deliberately twisted her waist, swayed her hips, and scratched her head to show off her poses, making all the sexy wives in the vicinity tickle and overjoyed.Compared with me, a conservative person who only dares to hide at home and let Roy see me naked, I am indeed a little inferior. In early July, she appeared in a cool bikini on her upper body and a pair of super mini hot pants on her lower body. "It's just that the weather is too hot today, so I can't help but wear so little." She sighed faintly. "This outfit is only suitable for the last season!" I replied sourly. "Yeah! Bianca, I agree." I heard my husband say this, and his eyes full of admiration were still fixed on Bianca's graceful figure. "Kathy, what will the neighbors think if I go out to take out the trash without clothes on?" He stroked his beard with his hand, ready to fight me. "Why bother? You are already a recognized sex idol in this area. I mean, look at you, everyone knows very well that I didn't marry you for your money." I really wanted to say Kind of a joke or something, but I'm really sick of my duplicity. "Oh oh oh...Kessandra." Bianca grasped my words with lightning speed and made a big fuss, "Did I smell a little bit of gunpowder? Let's analyze your Motivation. Is it possible that it is because you are a person who needs to use the aggressive method to be aroused to fight back instinct?" "No, that's because I don't think you are qualified to be a marriage counselor at all. To put it bluntly, you who are counselors and therapists are the ones who need to be treated. Let people who have their own problems teach us Knowing yourself, hell! That's why we told you not to come and help us in class, understand?" I walked up to my husband and stood still, "Roy, don't you?" Hearing this, Bianca assumed the posture of arming herself.Before my husband could answer me, she said to herself in her noble and soft voice: "Poor Roy, he wants to give all his love, but the object of his giving refuses him thousands of miles away , no wonder he needs to go through consultation to solve the problem." "Both, listen to me," Lowy said, "I feel that after taking Bianca's course, I have grown a lot and benefited a lot!" Benefited a lot?Grow a lot?Did I hear you wrong, did this come from my husband?The movement of his hand on his chin, disturbing spiritual music CDs, essential oil aromatherapy, candles... I should really warn the public that they would rather die than accept marriage counseling. I am a living and bloody example. "By the way, Kathy, isn't that what you mean?" he continued. "You want me to learn to face my inner feelings." "Loy, I'm telling you to take a good look at who you are. You selfish, arrogant, mean fellow!" "Very well, he will have a better understanding of his inner world next week." Bianca was still talking her big words. "What do you mean by that?" "By the way, I haven't told you yet." Roy looked a little embarrassed, "Bianca is going to hold a small graduation ceremony." "What's that?" "Heh... it should be called 'Super Sensory Surprise Party'." Bianca said proudly, "It's at my house!" My heart skipped a beat, and I suddenly had a premonition that all parties held at Bianca's house probably have only one point, and that is—take off your underwear!Panties off!Jump like crazy! There is definitely a notice board hanging at the gate of this woman's house, which reads: Come in!None of us have clothes on! "Do you want to reserve the places for you?" She asked with an ambiguous expression, and then laughed artificially. "I bet it's going to be a wild party!" I'm curious, how many times has she said such a bad joke?But Roy can laugh until the flowers are trembling, maybe now is a good time to make her mistakenly think that Roy has just had a gender reassignment operation. And one more thing for sure—it's time for me to read the famous psychologist Freud's book.

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