Long Time No See!!!!!
I just realized I haven't posted since September 1st. Wow.
So my studnet, Kana, didn't place at the provincial level of the speech contest, but she had a good time and that's what really matters. I'm proud of her for making it that far!! Next year she is going to try to write an original speech instead of just doing a recitation :) I'm looking forward to coaching her on that!
So yesterday I was teaching the 9th graders at Yotsukura. It was a lot of fun. The kids were all in a good mood for once. lol And they were all hyper. Except for the first class, they were all sleepy. One kid slept through the whole class. lol oh well.
As a warm up activity I got the kids doing tongue twisters in Japanese and then I taught them all a simple tongue twister.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy was he?
And we did it and some of them did it well!
Then we went on to the lesson that had me laughing and singing which had the kids laughing. I have never had so much fun in a class! And I laughed hard and put my head on the podium and when I lifted my head back up my face was red and one student asked if I had been drinking and was drunk. (because my face was so red)
The lesson was....
"Could you tell me how to get to...?" Which had me singing the theme song to Sesame Street! oh jeeez. And they new it too! Apparently it's been popular here in Japan too.
Also...where is the please in this sentence??? You are asking a complete stranger to help you get somewhere and you don't even say please? How Rude!! hahaha.
ALso, my students love my " I LOVE FUKUSHIMA" shirt. I have 3. I was asked where I got it from, how much it was and who made it. lol Some of them also asked me to get them one. I'll have to see what I can do. I like that they like them :) Then one of the boys told the rest of the class that I also have both a Canadian Flag patch and a Japanese Flag patch on my bag. Everyone seemed very impressed by this. I'm not quite sure why.
In other news:
Earthquake 2 nights ago was an M5, which isn't all the big, but after 2 months of little to no earthquakes, it freaked me out a bit. Woke me up from a sound sleep and then I was awake for well over an hour before I was able to go back to sleep. I guess I've been spoiled lately by the lack of earthquakes. lol
I'm working tomorrow (Saturday). My school is having their school festival and I'm really looking forward to it! There will be speaches (2 in Japanese and my two students will be presenting their English speaches) followed by a singing chorus contest between each class, followed by lunch and then a TAIKO concert and then the school band will perform 6 songs. This will go from 8:30 until 3pm. In exchange for having school tomorrow, we all get Monday off.
Scaper Con is in just under 3 weeks! I leave for L.A. on Nov. 17th! It's coming up fast and I can't wait to see everyone!!!
I also bought my plane tickets to go home for Christmas! I've got exactly 2 weeks in Ottawa. I arrive on the 22nd and head back to Japan on the 5th of Jan. I get a nice 3 day weekend when I get back before school starts on the 10th.
One final thing....
Today I got to school to find my monthly pay slip and rent receipt on my desk (as usual). However when I looked at my rent certificate I realized that the address at the top is still my old address instead of my new one. I double checked last months rent certificate and it is the same. So it looks like I've been paying rent for my old apartment and not my new one. So I called the BOE and they are looking into it. weird.
And I was told that I would be having a school visit from the BOE on Nov. 17th...while I'm in L.A. apparently. They know I'm going away, but they made this mistake after changing the date once already because they had originally scheduled it for the day that I will be coming back from L.A. Yeah. So I sent them an e-mail and they have to change it again.
ok. that was long enough lol. update done :)