In Which I Learned the Importance of Knowing Names
Last week I had to ask the nurses at two of my schools for help making copies. I am trying very hard to make an effort to learn all my teacher's names but it's proving very difficult because I have so many... All things considered I think I am doing pretty well. The school I am struggling with the most is my small school, Nishi, because they didn't give me a teacher name chart like my other schools.
Anyways, I had to ask for help making copies at Higashi on Thursday because I usually ask the financial operator , Nagai san for help. She was off from school on Thursday though, so I had to try and figure it out myself. I didn't want to go back and ask the principal for help because he doesn't think that I can understand Japanese (which is retarded, but whatever.) And I can't ask Kikuchi sensei for help because he's just so cute about things and... I can't handle it. After attempting things (pushing buttons) and nothing happening, I went to the nurse for help. She was in the clinic room, and I poked my head it and asked her if she had time. She was happy to help me, and after she finished showing me what to do she told me that it made her really happy that I remembered her name. (Ami-sensei)
Then, yesterday I had a similar experience. I was at Anzawa and needed to make copies again for the same activity. I went into the copy room, and fidgeted around again (the damn things are all different,) and then gave up. Thankfully the nurse was coming out into the hall and I asked her 「上野先生ちょっといい？」 and she helped me do everything. While we were waiting for the copies, she said the same thing to me 「名前覚えたありがとう！ 嬉しいです！」I thought that it was interesting that the two of them were so happy that I remembered their names, because to me I feel that it's necessary to have good communication to know names. For this reason, it drives me insane that Higashi, the school with the most students, don't have romanized name tags for the students. Even though I have over 800 students in all, I would like to be able to at least know some of their names!
Ueno sensei (from Anzawa Elementary) is adorable. She told me after thanking me for remembering her name that she wants to teach me many things, because she only has two adult sons she wants to teach me things she would teach to her daughter if she had one. Basically she said that she wants to be my Japanese mom. It was very touching and I'm almost tearing up remembering it. Every time I leave school for the evening, she tells me 「今度待ています！」which is literally "I'll be waiting for next time!"
I'm pretty sure that I love my job right now. <3
Anyways, I had to ask for help making copies at Higashi on Thursday because I usually ask the financial operator , Nagai san for help. She was off from school on Thursday though, so I had to try and figure it out myself. I didn't want to go back and ask the principal for help because he doesn't think that I can understand Japanese (which is retarded, but whatever.) And I can't ask Kikuchi sensei for help because he's just so cute about things and... I can't handle it. After attempting things (pushing buttons) and nothing happening, I went to the nurse for help. She was in the clinic room, and I poked my head it and asked her if she had time. She was happy to help me, and after she finished showing me what to do she told me that it made her really happy that I remembered her name. (Ami-sensei)
Then, yesterday I had a similar experience. I was at Anzawa and needed to make copies again for the same activity. I went into the copy room, and fidgeted around again (the damn things are all different,) and then gave up. Thankfully the nurse was coming out into the hall and I asked her 「上野先生ちょっといい？」 and she helped me do everything. While we were waiting for the copies, she said the same thing to me 「名前覚えたありがとう！ 嬉しいです！」I thought that it was interesting that the two of them were so happy that I remembered their names, because to me I feel that it's necessary to have good communication to know names. For this reason, it drives me insane that Higashi, the school with the most students, don't have romanized name tags for the students. Even though I have over 800 students in all, I would like to be able to at least know some of their names!
Ueno sensei (from Anzawa Elementary) is adorable. She told me after thanking me for remembering her name that she wants to teach me many things, because she only has two adult sons she wants to teach me things she would teach to her daughter if she had one. Basically she said that she wants to be my Japanese mom. It was very touching and I'm almost tearing up remembering it. Every time I leave school for the evening, she tells me 「今度待ています！」which is literally "I'll be waiting for next time!"
I'm pretty sure that I love my job right now. <3