Wow, second day of teaching today, at a completely new elementary school. The beginning was once again a little rocky. I come in (on time this time), and find there are no bloody flashcards of Halloween vocab! So I'm like "well..how the heck am I supposed to teach?". We go to the craft room and in less than 15 minute botch together some self drawn cartoons of vampires and the sorts. (My vampire got often mistaken for a monkey...it just is enough said about my drawing skills). It went alright though. The kids were amazing! They were grade 1 and 2 so a bit younger..and didn't really get the question "How are you?" and answered in proud chorus "How are you?"...so we spent a little time on replies. I showed them photos of my parents, friends and grandparents which they all loved. The picture they loved the most was of James and his "red nose day" nose. The whole class would erupt in to ecstatic laughter when they saw it. It was a great ice breaker..so thanks James! You're a star over here with the 8 year olds! It was great having kids stop when they see me and try and talk to me with what little English they had!!! I completely fell for one of the teachers too, this young guy (the first male teacher I see!), with a high pitched voice and very girlish ways. He must be from the other side of the river!!! But he was such a cutie!!! he even took a pictures during the lesson and wanted one of me with the students. Lol...oddness
I also got on really well with the social worker there, her english was very good so we had long conversations about the differences between english and japanese schools. She had studied psychology and so we could discuss her topic of interest - autism. It was great to talk science with a japanese person! I am teaching the learning disability class on wednesday...so I am a bit scared of what I am gonna be able to do...It was cool, because after school she brought a girl to me who isn't at school because she hates it, and has problems there. I got chatting to her..or at least tried but I invited her to my class tomorrow, so hopefully she will come and see that learning can be fun. I hope I have influenced her..she seemed really chuffed anyway. She said she wanted to see me because I was described to look like Angela Aki, who happens to be half japanese! I googled her - she's a popstar and sang the song for final fantasy 12!!!! I am well honoured!
In the eve I went out with Steven, a ALT I met during the weekend. We went to an Izakaya and had lots of niiiice food, and discussions about science, religion,taxes,relationships etc...it was soo good to have in depth chats about stuff like that! Did you know that a lot of chinese characters are actually biblical? The waitress we had was darn cute!!!! She spoke like a flipping rushing waterfall though! She said I was cute...awwwwwwww I wanna take her home with me!
gotta get up at 6 tomoz and do the whole journey to school by myself!!! scary!
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