My Halloween classes all went very well this week! I wore my costume to school yesterday and all the kids (and the teachers) loved it! It was the scariest costume any of them had seen in person (because Halloween here is seriously scewed!  It's way more cute than scary).  No one knew it was me until I started talking.  All the kids kept asking who ( Read more... )

Earthquakes are picking up steam again.  Been having quite a few lately in the surrounding areas and the last two, just a few minutes ago and last night, were right in my area. 2 decent sized earthquakes in 14 hours. Not too happy about that.  It's a little worrisome.

It's already March 1st!  Graduation ceremonies are in 12 days! End of school year ( Read more... )

Woke up at 5 this morning and got ready for work.  Today, instead of going to school to teach, all the ALTs in Fukushima Prefecture went to Fukushima City for the annual mid year conference.  So Sam and I had a taxi waiting on us (he was quite early) at 6:50 this morning to bring us to the B.O.E.  From there we took a bus (just for us) to the ( Read more... )

Today has been one of those days.  I had a headache before I even left for work this morning.  I took some Advil and Tylenol and went to work.  I spent first period preparing materials that I would need for class. I made a game for my 5th period class and made copies of work sheets and what not.  Aside from the headache, classes went well.  I had ( Read more... )

Feel free to skip this post if you don't want to here my somewhat angsty musings.  For some reason I have a hard time getting the cuts to work right, so I'm not going to bother trying tonight.

I'm trying to update more often but sometimes I just can't think of anything to say.  Seems like lately all I want to do is complain and I'm pretty sure most ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel like the Pied Piper.  After 5th period the other day (grade 3 class 2), instead of the usual 2 kids that walk me back to the teacher’s room (which is normal) I had about 20 kids follow me back to the teacher’s room lol.  It’s only really that class that does it, but usually they are all around me. This time they were all behind me ( Read more... )