I can see the light!!!
GUYS! I ONLY HAVE 2 DAYS LEFT!!!
Tonight my goal is to write letters to 3 people: Ms. M, Washu-L and Ms. S. Ms. M's been out all week with a bum knee, but she's coming back tomorrow (it's nice that we're so close we talk on the phone OFTEN). Washu-L, ugh. Today was the first time I spoke to her in 5 days. So I jokingly yelled at her that I haven't seen her in a while and FRIDAY'S MY LAST DAY!! Get out of your room, omg. (And so awesome, one the kids just said on Faceplace that they're on lockdown. That means I won't see her, OR ANY OF THEM for probably the rest of the week). Ms. S has been there, thankfully, and is basically the one I'm running to bitching about how my lead teacher's changed my schedule because she apparently has no heart (although, really it doesn't matter now that my older kids won't be around).
Not a great day, and honestly, these next 2 days could quite possibly blow so hard.
Maybe the letter I'm writing to Washu-L will, at least, make her come out of her classroom to say goodbye at SOME point. I'm not betting on eating with the kids ever again.
Japan got my visa application a few days ago, so now I wait 4 - 6 weeks. And once I get the "OK," I have to drive myself to Detroit (UGH.) and get my visa. Then I LEAVE. It really can't come fast enough. I'm starting to get excited... the end of my era at JPP is helping me discover that this is real, and it's going to happen. Every so often I get a crippling feeling in my stomach about everything and anything that could go wrong with my entire stay in Japan, but then I try to replace it with a positive thought. Like the J-League, or the fact that my apartment comes with satellite, or that I'll be earning more money, or that these students will undoubtedly be much more respectful. I just hope I can bond with them the same way.... oh jeeze, see there I go with the worrying.
I told Joseph (a 6th grader in Washu-L's class) that Friday, THIS FRIDAY, was my last day. This was his immediate response:
Thanks Miss Kessel, you just ruined my day. I was having a fun day.
-CCCRRRRRYYYYYYYYY- It's even worse when the kids constantly run to me and tell me how hard they're trying to get a Facebook. They aren't making it easy, although to be fair, none of them have actually complained, or whined (for the most part). Come Friday, if I even get to fucking see them, it may be a different story. Is there really even a point to bringing my camera tomorrow and Friday? No, just no. And that is what is so upsetting to me.
We leave for Florida in a week to visit my grandpa and apparently go to the beach. That should be nice, I really like where he lives. And all the old people. Plus my parents are being pretty nice since they know I'm leaving... especially my mom. I like it.
OH! So!! The AFC Champions League is going on right now. I got up at 5:15 (instead of dragging my ass out of bed at 6:30) to watch Cerezo beat some random Asian team. They scored late in the game to win 2 - 1 and it was pretty hard not to wooop it up out loud. So I just spasm-ed around my bedroom. Oh yeah, no, that's normal. EHEHEHEEEEE THE J-LEAGUE STARTS IN 3 DAYS -- IT'S GONNA BE GREAT!!!! First game: Gamba vs. Cerezo. DAMN! Way to start off the new season with a killer game! XD
Tonight my goal is to write letters to 3 people: Ms. M, Washu-L and Ms. S. Ms. M's been out all week with a bum knee, but she's coming back tomorrow (it's nice that we're so close we talk on the phone OFTEN). Washu-L, ugh. Today was the first time I spoke to her in 5 days. So I jokingly yelled at her that I haven't seen her in a while and FRIDAY'S MY LAST DAY!! Get out of your room, omg. (And so awesome, one the kids just said on Faceplace that they're on lockdown. That means I won't see her, OR ANY OF THEM for probably the rest of the week). Ms. S has been there, thankfully, and is basically the one I'm running to bitching about how my lead teacher's changed my schedule because she apparently has no heart (although, really it doesn't matter now that my older kids won't be around).
Not a great day, and honestly, these next 2 days could quite possibly blow so hard.
Maybe the letter I'm writing to Washu-L will, at least, make her come out of her classroom to say goodbye at SOME point. I'm not betting on eating with the kids ever again.
Japan got my visa application a few days ago, so now I wait 4 - 6 weeks. And once I get the "OK," I have to drive myself to Detroit (UGH.) and get my visa. Then I LEAVE. It really can't come fast enough. I'm starting to get excited... the end of my era at JPP is helping me discover that this is real, and it's going to happen. Every so often I get a crippling feeling in my stomach about everything and anything that could go wrong with my entire stay in Japan, but then I try to replace it with a positive thought. Like the J-League, or the fact that my apartment comes with satellite, or that I'll be earning more money, or that these students will undoubtedly be much more respectful. I just hope I can bond with them the same way.... oh jeeze, see there I go with the worrying.
I told Joseph (a 6th grader in Washu-L's class) that Friday, THIS FRIDAY, was my last day. This was his immediate response:
Thanks Miss Kessel, you just ruined my day. I was having a fun day.
-CCCRRRRRYYYYYYYYY- It's even worse when the kids constantly run to me and tell me how hard they're trying to get a Facebook. They aren't making it easy, although to be fair, none of them have actually complained, or whined (for the most part). Come Friday, if I even get to fucking see them, it may be a different story. Is there really even a point to bringing my camera tomorrow and Friday? No, just no. And that is what is so upsetting to me.
We leave for Florida in a week to visit my grandpa and apparently go to the beach. That should be nice, I really like where he lives. And all the old people. Plus my parents are being pretty nice since they know I'm leaving... especially my mom. I like it.
OH! So!! The AFC Champions League is going on right now. I got up at 5:15 (instead of dragging my ass out of bed at 6:30) to watch Cerezo beat some random Asian team. They scored late in the game to win 2 - 1 and it was pretty hard not to wooop it up out loud. So I just spasm-ed around my bedroom. Oh yeah, no, that's normal. EHEHEHEEEEE THE J-LEAGUE STARTS IN 3 DAYS -- IT'S GONNA BE GREAT!!!! First game: Gamba vs. Cerezo. DAMN! Way to start off the new season with a killer game! XD