Why oh why do I hate people so?
Well, let's continue the update. Here's a bit about the tour group. There's a 11:00pm curfew. If you want to be out of the residence later than that, you need your parent/guardian's signature. FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, people my age are getting married and having kids on our own! Why the bloody hell do we need our parents to sign us out? Oh, and guys can't go into the girls' residence and vice verca. And what's with some of the events they try to make us do? Learn Mandarine? Do you seriously expect us to learn how to speak/read/write a foreign language in a couple of 3 hours classes? Seriously! Do something more productive!
I had a fight a couple of days ago with the staff members reguarding the morning calls. My room has only received a morning call on the first day of the trip. One of the staff member was complaining on how slow at waking up my room was. I told him that we never received morning calls. He then replied saying that is impossible, because he would always make sure the people in the rooms that he's responsible for would wake up on time. I responded by saying that in that case, the telephone must be broken, otherwise at least one of the 4 people in my room would hear the phone ring. I was groggy at the moment since I was just woken up, and thus didn't turn my face to look at him. He took that as an insult and start using harsher tones. He claims that it is impossible for the person responsible for calling my room to not call, OR that the phone is broken. I got pretty pissed, and start screaming back at him. He claims that the morning call is not for the purpose of waking people up, but as an assistance. Bullshit! The whole purpose of a MORNING CALL is to wake someone up. Why would you bother with a morning call if that's not the case? In the end it just went into a screaming fest. I guess I kinda needed that, to dispel some of the irritation I'm receiving from this stupid group. It ended when some other staff came in to mitigate the situation.
On that same day, the head team leader (our group is divided into 9 groups. Each group has a leader, and there's a leader for those 9 leaders) gave a speech to the group saying how he was really angry at the fact that some people locked their room and pretended to be not in the room, and thus making people wait in the group during the morning gathering. For some reason the incidence of the questionable existance of the morning call in my room was also mentioned. After the anger fest that the head team leader displayed, my sister and I confronted him. We start arguing about the whole morning call issue and pretty much cornered him and bashed him with logical arguments. We also said that his actions are unprofessional. He should have approached the people in question in private. In the end he claimed that he wasn't the one who wanted to say those things, but he was told to do so by the head organizers/ the big cheese of the tour group. My sister and I commented on how silly that is, and how big of a chicken the head cheese is. If the head cheese wanted to show anger, she should have told the group herself, as opposed to telling one of her lackies to do it for her. It would have held a lot more weight, when something like that comes from a person with the highest power, who is older. A 22 years old holds a lot less authority in a group where there are 27 year olds.
Well, regardless on whether the phone was too soft and was fixed, or the person responsible for calling my room didn't call all this time, it was solved the next day. A very punctual morning call was received the next morning.
The staff in general are sooooo square! They MUST follow the set rules to the letter, and have no room for flexibility. My sister and I are pretty much the biggest rebels in the group, causing lots of pain and suffering for the staff. GOOD! Maybe by the end some of them will grow a backbone and some brains to think for themselves, as opposed to just follow what is told.
The tourists aren't all that great either. Cliques are formed quickly, and the whole feeling is exactly the same as high school. The clique mentality isn't exclusive to the young ones, but to the older tourists as well. I sure hope people of Taiwan in general don't behave like the people in this tour group. If they do, I seriously wouldn't mind genetically engineer a biological weapon to wipe out the people of this island (yea, I know, that's going against my philosophy of genocide being bad. Give me a break. I'm venting rage).
Yesterday there was a mandatory movie watching event. I would have stayed if it were Taiwanese films. But they were foreign films (in Taiwanese standards)! My sister and I just sneaked out and ditched the "class". Today, I was confronted by my team leader, saying how I shouldn't ditch. I told her that I already seen those movies, but she continue saying how this is a class, and you can't just leave. I feined ignorance and just keep replying "oh, okay", thus stopping additional opportunities for her to say anything else.
I had a fight a couple of days ago with the staff members reguarding the morning calls. My room has only received a morning call on the first day of the trip. One of the staff member was complaining on how slow at waking up my room was. I told him that we never received morning calls. He then replied saying that is impossible, because he would always make sure the people in the rooms that he's responsible for would wake up on time. I responded by saying that in that case, the telephone must be broken, otherwise at least one of the 4 people in my room would hear the phone ring. I was groggy at the moment since I was just woken up, and thus didn't turn my face to look at him. He took that as an insult and start using harsher tones. He claims that it is impossible for the person responsible for calling my room to not call, OR that the phone is broken. I got pretty pissed, and start screaming back at him. He claims that the morning call is not for the purpose of waking people up, but as an assistance. Bullshit! The whole purpose of a MORNING CALL is to wake someone up. Why would you bother with a morning call if that's not the case? In the end it just went into a screaming fest. I guess I kinda needed that, to dispel some of the irritation I'm receiving from this stupid group. It ended when some other staff came in to mitigate the situation.
On that same day, the head team leader (our group is divided into 9 groups. Each group has a leader, and there's a leader for those 9 leaders) gave a speech to the group saying how he was really angry at the fact that some people locked their room and pretended to be not in the room, and thus making people wait in the group during the morning gathering. For some reason the incidence of the questionable existance of the morning call in my room was also mentioned. After the anger fest that the head team leader displayed, my sister and I confronted him. We start arguing about the whole morning call issue and pretty much cornered him and bashed him with logical arguments. We also said that his actions are unprofessional. He should have approached the people in question in private. In the end he claimed that he wasn't the one who wanted to say those things, but he was told to do so by the head organizers/ the big cheese of the tour group. My sister and I commented on how silly that is, and how big of a chicken the head cheese is. If the head cheese wanted to show anger, she should have told the group herself, as opposed to telling one of her lackies to do it for her. It would have held a lot more weight, when something like that comes from a person with the highest power, who is older. A 22 years old holds a lot less authority in a group where there are 27 year olds.
Well, regardless on whether the phone was too soft and was fixed, or the person responsible for calling my room didn't call all this time, it was solved the next day. A very punctual morning call was received the next morning.
The staff in general are sooooo square! They MUST follow the set rules to the letter, and have no room for flexibility. My sister and I are pretty much the biggest rebels in the group, causing lots of pain and suffering for the staff. GOOD! Maybe by the end some of them will grow a backbone and some brains to think for themselves, as opposed to just follow what is told.
The tourists aren't all that great either. Cliques are formed quickly, and the whole feeling is exactly the same as high school. The clique mentality isn't exclusive to the young ones, but to the older tourists as well. I sure hope people of Taiwan in general don't behave like the people in this tour group. If they do, I seriously wouldn't mind genetically engineer a biological weapon to wipe out the people of this island (yea, I know, that's going against my philosophy of genocide being bad. Give me a break. I'm venting rage).
Yesterday there was a mandatory movie watching event. I would have stayed if it were Taiwanese films. But they were foreign films (in Taiwanese standards)! My sister and I just sneaked out and ditched the "class". Today, I was confronted by my team leader, saying how I shouldn't ditch. I told her that I already seen those movies, but she continue saying how this is a class, and you can't just leave. I feined ignorance and just keep replying "oh, okay", thus stopping additional opportunities for her to say anything else.
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