oh happy day
today is boring. I had one class today, my special needs class, and there was only one student, but I didn't know that till i got there (it's usually 5 students, but when I got to school I was told it would be 3, then when I left for the class I was told it was only 1) so the games I had planned simply wouldn't work. Ended up using my fallback (a wordsearch worksheet) after doing some gestures stuff (differences between Japanese and US gestures) and then just playing some hangman (well, I'm not really allowed to play HANGman, according to my company, so today we played dinosaur-chasing-a-man-towards-a-cliff-man, I've also played killer-snowman-chasing-a-man-towards-a-cliff-man and angry-villagers-with-torches-and-pitchforks-chasing... you get the point). He was also one of the worse students, one of the ones that doesn't really care and doesn't like to participate much, though he did get a kick out of hangman cause I made it easy for him. Anyway, I've crammed some more kanji into my addled brain, now it's lunch time, but I'm still bored. All my students are taking tests today, dunno if I mentioned that (looks up) nope, didn't mention it.
tuesday I had my annoying class in elementary school. The one where every time I say "awesome" some kid says "asshole?" These kids are like 10. Unfortunately I was teaching a lesson on population. The word "population" in japanese is "jinko" which, as they were quick to point out/pretend to mishear, is very similar to "chinko" which roughly translates to "cock." Wonderful. Did I mention these kids are like 10? (looks up) guess I did. I did see some kid, later on, getting hauled rather bodily into the principal's office. Hadn't seen that before, was under the impression it's against the japanese constitution to force a kid to leave class for ANY reason.
Anyway, I was helping 3 girls last week with their conversational english, and that was a lot of fun. I got to spend time with them after school, in a much more mellow situation, and just basically shoot the shit with 'em (mostly me asking questions, that sort of thing, but I got to joke around with them a lot). It was nice seeing them in a less formal session, where they're not as shy cause they're not in front of 39 of their peers, many of whom don't give two shits or a fuck about English. Just wish I was able to do that sort of thing more often with them and get paid for it
tuesday I had my annoying class in elementary school. The one where every time I say "awesome" some kid says "asshole?" These kids are like 10. Unfortunately I was teaching a lesson on population. The word "population" in japanese is "jinko" which, as they were quick to point out/pretend to mishear, is very similar to "chinko" which roughly translates to "cock." Wonderful. Did I mention these kids are like 10? (looks up) guess I did. I did see some kid, later on, getting hauled rather bodily into the principal's office. Hadn't seen that before, was under the impression it's against the japanese constitution to force a kid to leave class for ANY reason.
Anyway, I was helping 3 girls last week with their conversational english, and that was a lot of fun. I got to spend time with them after school, in a much more mellow situation, and just basically shoot the shit with 'em (mostly me asking questions, that sort of thing, but I got to joke around with them a lot). It was nice seeing them in a less formal session, where they're not as shy cause they're not in front of 39 of their peers, many of whom don't give two shits or a fuck about English. Just wish I was able to do that sort of thing more often with them and get paid for it