Well..that was an odd second day of teaching. Today the BoE came to my school, and I already had many meetings with my fifth grade teacher beforehand to figure out exactly how our lesson was going to go. I was quite nervous this morning...what if I mess up? etc...The 3/4th grade class went quite well..those kids are awesome. i ahd lunch with grade 3 and they were really cool, we did armwrestling, and played janken. There`s only 2 girls in grade 3 so it was all about the boy play, which suited me fine, we pretended to shoot each other dragon ball z style. Though it had finally happened, I was confronted with a plate of infamous little fish and peanuts. The fish still had their eyes and everything...I was like...riiight...but I had to eat it. the rule at elementary is "you gotta eat everything". The kids made sure of it too. I left a little heap of mini fish heads in the corner of the plate...but they all picked me up on it, surrounded my table, pointed at the fish heads and made gestures and noises in the direction of "naughty girl has to finish her plate before she can play". So I hung my head in shame then scooped up all the heads, shut my eyes, held my nose and chewed, while the kids were all staring at me proudly and expectantly. Lunch is fun.
Anyways..my observation lesson. I actually was almost late! I didn`t realise my next lesson had started, I was still downstairs making worksheets for my class on thursday when one of the teachers was like "you ahve class!!!". I was like "%'&('==!!!!!!" and ran up the stairs like a maniac, racing the kyoto sensei. I arrived slightly out of breath only to be confronted with the head teacher, the 5th grade teacher, the BoE woman and about 5 other teachers all standing there waiting for me and smilling. the kids though it was very funny. I swear the entire Teacher body came to watch my lesson...there were more teachers than students, all standing around at the side of the room...it was soooo awkward. I tried my best to stay cheerful and make the kids feel at ease. The lesson plan was a little dry due to it having to fit in with the lessons set by the BoE. I was just like...omg....the kids must be hating this. It went ok though..faster than I thought and all in all..there didn`t seem to be any hard feelings...still damn awkward..and all this on my second day of teaching!
yesterday, I went for a meal with the girls and we ended up in this funky ice cream cafe...they have niiice stuff here!! they even have this bucket of ice cream which looks awesome but needs to be shared by about 6 people or more. That`s so gonna have to be done!
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Well, there you are - you finally convinced me that there is a very good reason to go and visit you in Japan! The ice cream..... :-) Hey, I can be embarrassing parent! Looking forward to it...
"BoE" wa nan desuka? Eigo de kudasai
Did I get it right? My Japanese has gone waaaay down... :P
How about a bucket of fish heads instead of a bucket of ice-cream?
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