question for all you english teachers

[ex_saraswath377]

I'm writing a story about a JET and one of her students. As I was a ryugakusei myself, I don't know that much about non-college schools - and especially high schools, where this takes place. The scenes in school are really short compared to the other scenes since the student skips all the time, but I have you ask you eigo no sensei

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[dv8nation]

1. It depends on where I'm at. If I'm at the junior high, then it'll be weeks between classes spent sitting at my desk. If I'm at an elementary school then it's 2 classes each time at one, four at the other.

2. I eat at home. My place is about 10 minutes max from anywhere I teach. School lunches in my town are known around the area for being bad so I bailed on that a few months into the job.

I also stopped eating with the elementary school kids because they'd stick me at a kid's desk that would come up to my knees and the kids would just stare at me like I wasn't human.

So I said to heck with it and started eating at home. I found being able to grab some alone time each day during work helped me to relax.

3. The elementary school JTEs and I get along pretty well since I speak Japanese well enough to get what I need to know across. I used to get along with the junior high JTEs pretty well until I found out they were making me the scapegoat for stuff behind my back.

4. I've been here 18 months and I can count the number of times I've been asked to grade something on one hand an have fingers to spare.

Of course, my town doesn't seem to know what to actually do with an ALT so I think I'm not a typical case.

[ex_saraswath377]

thank you so much :) As long as one person's experienced something as an ALT, it can be theoretically possible - my audience isn't going to know the difference (most know nothing about anime cons and that's under their noses, as opposed to something across the ocean), but I'd rather be safe.