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I really feel like I'm making a vast improvement in what I've set my mind on. Today I looked out the window from my classroom and saw students playing kendo on the second floor of the building across the courtyard. When I leave school to attend the gym across the river, I can hear the volley ball girls letting out that unusual chant-like wail from the school gymnasium. As I ride my bike in through the school gates in the morning students wave and greet me heartily.
These are all things that I won't forget easily. They help to embellish my life here.
I've begun to take the reins on classes, even teaching a bit in Japanese. I made a New Years poster for the students, which I unfurl in front of all of the 13 classes in the school to the sound of cheers and gasps of awe. I make the students laugh by playing games and telling jokes. I laugh with the students when they ask me if I own pornographic magazines, or if I've ever had intercourse before.
Today I introduced an activity where students had to initiate a conversation via telephone and adlib in some nouns and times.
Students enjoy it because they have a chance to compete with other students in that they accrue signatures for each time they complete the conversation. As I was walking around I heard an awesome student adlib in "your mother" for the person for whom he was calling, and "tell her to meet at my body at 7:00 tonight".
Needless to say I was laughing even hours later while lifting weights at the gym.
These are all things that I won't forget easily. They help to embellish my life here.
I've begun to take the reins on classes, even teaching a bit in Japanese. I made a New Years poster for the students, which I unfurl in front of all of the 13 classes in the school to the sound of cheers and gasps of awe. I make the students laugh by playing games and telling jokes. I laugh with the students when they ask me if I own pornographic magazines, or if I've ever had intercourse before.
Today I introduced an activity where students had to initiate a conversation via telephone and adlib in some nouns and times.
Students enjoy it because they have a chance to compete with other students in that they accrue signatures for each time they complete the conversation. As I was walking around I heard an awesome student adlib in "your mother" for the person for whom he was calling, and "tell her to meet at my body at 7:00 tonight".
Needless to say I was laughing even hours later while lifting weights at the gym.