artlu's Bear Blog

Happy Teacher's Day!

In Taiwan, parents wake up on Confucius's birthday1

to two handfuls2 of LINE groupchats3

with 20+ messages4 each:

祝[XXX]老師教師節快樂！

  1. repurposed for National Teacher Day↩

  2. one for each year of school↩

  3. often with stickers of bowing sheep, posing cats, or delightfully happy little girls↩

  4. nobody wants to be the antisocial weirdo who can't act like a normal human being↩