The Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of UWS, my boss Matt, Hiromi, and a teacher at the local college came to visit my second period English class today and I must say it was an event.

When the homeroom teacher found out that they were going to be visiting her homeroom she looked at Maemura Sensei and me and left the room. She went to tell her ( Read more... )

The Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of UWS, my boss Matt, Hiromi, and a teacher at the local college are coming to visit the Junior High today. I am looking forward to the visit but at the same time I am a bit nervous. Maemura Sensei and I taught the same lesson yesterday twice but the students were not too into the lesson and showed us that through ( Read more... )

Last night, Jana, Katie, Matt, Hiromi, and I had dinner with the President of the Ibaraki University, the Chancellor of UWS, and the Vice Chancellor of UWS. The Chancellor and Vice Chancellor are visiting Japan because of the Sister School relationship that UWS has with the Ibaraki College. It was their first night in town and we all went out for ( Read more... )

Jana and I met with the Superior Delegation at Kimihara Community Center on Saturday and spent the majority of the day with them. We watched a kendo demonstration and after the demonstration the students were able to learn how to do a basic kendo move or two. We also learned how to do a very basic version of Japanese flower arranging; I found this ( Read more... )

On Thursday the delegation of students and adults from Superior arrived. I was invited to attend the Welcome Ceremony for them. I arrived early to the ceremony and ended up chatting with the mayor for a couple of in minutes in my horrible Japanese as we waited for the delegation to arrive. I was petrified to be talking with the mayor because he ( Read more... )