Why this site is the onion.com of ESL news- an exclusive interview with Gaba Teachers Association

On January 11, 2008 in Interviews

“After months and months of pondering,

I’ve put together a few answers to your questions below. -GTA”

Finally its here! After much arm-twisting, waiting, and then failure (on my part) to post promptly, DailyJ has brought you the interview with the “bestest” news source for ESL teachers in Japan!!

Daily J: What motivated you to start Gaba Teacher’s Association?

GTA: At first I wanted to write about my life living in Japan, but even my parents didn’t read what I wrote. I thought my account of the cherry blossom season was accurate and insightful. I wanted to also write about teaching English. I wrote some “serious” article, but it seemed quite ridiculous and gave up. Then I saw some ad for GEOS where the woman looked as if she could be a cyborg, or clone or something. So I wrote about that and it became an Onion style article. I realized I could use this style to write about workplaces, my friends, or myself.

Gaba Teacher’s Assocation really is a hilarious site. If you do no believe me take a look at this snippet from its disclaimer:

“All content on this site is purely fiction and does not represent the views of any human being in the world. Note that all authors are complete paranoid schizophrenic who have never satisfied a beautiful woman, or an ugly toothless woman for that matter. This site has no affiliation or with Gaba Man-To-Man English. However, we do encourage people to go there as it is the most bestest English school in Japan. All content on this site should be ignored as it will just waste your time. We are not responsible for you wasting your time. “

So grab a bag of popcorn, sit back and prepare to laugh as you check out what all the hoopla is about on GTA

And be sure to come back tomorrow to learn what GTA has to say about Gaba and ESL in Japan (or subscribe via RSS)!

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