Kuroi wa the brightest part of my week!
Kuroiwa continues to be my favorite school ever. Today just further cemented this fact.
We cleaned. The entire school. And not just spritzed the windows or wiped down the blackboards. We were on our hands and knees cleaning the floor with rags and pieces of steel wool as big as a thumbnail. It was backbreaking labor, but I would do it all over again. It was a priceless opportunity to get to know the students. I mostly cleaned with the 2nd years because I almost never see them. We played a game where I would name an animal in Japanese and they would say it in English. It was nearly ten minutes before we ran out of animals! I had no idea I knew so many. And I was blown away by how much the kids knew. They did get stuck on "kaba," though. Hippopotamus is a far cry from "kaba," don't you think? From two syllables to five in one translation. Then we did tongue twisters. First I tried a Japanese one: "nama mugi, nama gome, nama tamago." It's a classic one and it beat me several times before I was finally able to say the sentence three times in a row. There was much rejoicing.
Then we tried some English ones. "Peter Piper" was too long, but "She Sells Seashells" got them going. I was really proud of them for differentiating between the sounds in "she" and "sea." Yaaaay. We also did "toy boat," and that got some laughs too. It's really easy until like the seventh time around.
And to think I was just going to go to the Board of Education today. Screw that! From now on, unless it's an activity that requires absolute fluency in Japanese, I'm never going to give up the opportunity to spend more time with the students. I also think that I earned some major points with the staff and students for staying. They gave me a chance to opt out and seemed surprised when I said that I wanted to help. I didn't really know what I was in for, but I wouldn't hesitate to do it again.
Thankfully, however, they only do this once a year. Heh. Any more than that and I'd ask for daikyuu. lolz.
Speaking of daikyuu, tomorrow is my daikyuu day. :D At 12:20, I'm out of there and heading home. I plan to do some laundry and clean my car and my bathroom. They both need major work. Then I need to straighten up this place because I'm having my supervisor and her kids over for chili Saturday night. We're going to watch America's Funniest Home Videos and practice English. It'll be fun.
Saturday and Sunday are my first Genki rehearsals. I'm excited! With any luck, I'll snag the part of the narrator (who has one line. I've already memorized it!) But beside that, I'll be helping to paint and assemble sets, sew costumes, be a gopher, and maybe even help design the poster that will tell everyone to come see us.
So from here on out, Genki will be taking over my life. Practice is every Saturday and Sunday from 10-4:30. >.< Why they have to make it so early is beyond me. I have to be out of my apartment by nine. So "sleeping in" now means waking up at 8 instead of 7. Wooooo!
But, like I said before, I need this. And I can't let this opportunity to get involved with the JET community go by, espeically when it doesn't involve sports. So busy, yes. But anything worth doing needs a little effort and sacrifice, right? Yeah!
Medium suuuuuuucked this week. I love this show and it usually leaves me awed, but I was completely underwhelmed with this episode. The premise was really exciting: Allison loses her hearing when she dreams about a deaf girl who is kidnapped. But the episode was just one unbelievable plot hole or cliche after another. First of all, Allison doesn't realize that she can't hear even when she says a sentence. Uh, hello? If you can't hear yourself talking when you're saying something, don't you think that's going to turn on a few light bulbs? And then the ending... don't even get me started on the ending. It was soooo stupid. The writers of this episode obviously had no idea what it's like to be deaf or try to communicate with someone who is deaf. Boo. And I was really looking forward to this episode too.
I haven't gotten around to watching Knight Rider yet, but I think I'll watch it tonight. I hear David Hasselhoff does make an appearance. Man, if there was ever one guy whose handsomeness was completely overrated, it would be David Hasselhoff's. It's like somebody was sorting out male actors and tossed Hasslehoff toward the "Butt Ugly" box, but he bounced off one of the flaps into the "Drop Dead Gorgeous" box by mistake. You know, they really shouldn't have kept those boxes so close together. A similar mix-up got all my My Little Ponies sold in a garage sale one time. Sad, really.
Please, always arrange your boxes in order from "Ugly" to "Gorgeous" and leave sufficient space between them when separating your male actors. Don't let Overrated Handsomeness happen to you.
Heh, I want to make a PSA flash video about this. Who else has examples of overrated (or underrated) handsomeness? The public needs to know!
Okay, that's it. See you on the flip siiiide. (Forgive me, I watched Boondock Saints last night.)
We cleaned. The entire school. And not just spritzed the windows or wiped down the blackboards. We were on our hands and knees cleaning the floor with rags and pieces of steel wool as big as a thumbnail. It was backbreaking labor, but I would do it all over again. It was a priceless opportunity to get to know the students. I mostly cleaned with the 2nd years because I almost never see them. We played a game where I would name an animal in Japanese and they would say it in English. It was nearly ten minutes before we ran out of animals! I had no idea I knew so many. And I was blown away by how much the kids knew. They did get stuck on "kaba," though. Hippopotamus is a far cry from "kaba," don't you think? From two syllables to five in one translation. Then we did tongue twisters. First I tried a Japanese one: "nama mugi, nama gome, nama tamago." It's a classic one and it beat me several times before I was finally able to say the sentence three times in a row. There was much rejoicing.
Then we tried some English ones. "Peter Piper" was too long, but "She Sells Seashells" got them going. I was really proud of them for differentiating between the sounds in "she" and "sea." Yaaaay. We also did "toy boat," and that got some laughs too. It's really easy until like the seventh time around.
And to think I was just going to go to the Board of Education today. Screw that! From now on, unless it's an activity that requires absolute fluency in Japanese, I'm never going to give up the opportunity to spend more time with the students. I also think that I earned some major points with the staff and students for staying. They gave me a chance to opt out and seemed surprised when I said that I wanted to help. I didn't really know what I was in for, but I wouldn't hesitate to do it again.
Thankfully, however, they only do this once a year. Heh. Any more than that and I'd ask for daikyuu. lolz.
Speaking of daikyuu, tomorrow is my daikyuu day. :D At 12:20, I'm out of there and heading home. I plan to do some laundry and clean my car and my bathroom. They both need major work. Then I need to straighten up this place because I'm having my supervisor and her kids over for chili Saturday night. We're going to watch America's Funniest Home Videos and practice English. It'll be fun.
Saturday and Sunday are my first Genki rehearsals. I'm excited! With any luck, I'll snag the part of the narrator (who has one line. I've already memorized it!) But beside that, I'll be helping to paint and assemble sets, sew costumes, be a gopher, and maybe even help design the poster that will tell everyone to come see us.
So from here on out, Genki will be taking over my life. Practice is every Saturday and Sunday from 10-4:30. >.< Why they have to make it so early is beyond me. I have to be out of my apartment by nine. So "sleeping in" now means waking up at 8 instead of 7. Wooooo!
But, like I said before, I need this. And I can't let this opportunity to get involved with the JET community go by, espeically when it doesn't involve sports. So busy, yes. But anything worth doing needs a little effort and sacrifice, right? Yeah!
Medium suuuuuuucked this week. I love this show and it usually leaves me awed, but I was completely underwhelmed with this episode. The premise was really exciting: Allison loses her hearing when she dreams about a deaf girl who is kidnapped. But the episode was just one unbelievable plot hole or cliche after another. First of all, Allison doesn't realize that she can't hear even when she says a sentence. Uh, hello? If you can't hear yourself talking when you're saying something, don't you think that's going to turn on a few light bulbs? And then the ending... don't even get me started on the ending. It was soooo stupid. The writers of this episode obviously had no idea what it's like to be deaf or try to communicate with someone who is deaf. Boo. And I was really looking forward to this episode too.
I haven't gotten around to watching Knight Rider yet, but I think I'll watch it tonight. I hear David Hasselhoff does make an appearance. Man, if there was ever one guy whose handsomeness was completely overrated, it would be David Hasselhoff's. It's like somebody was sorting out male actors and tossed Hasslehoff toward the "Butt Ugly" box, but he bounced off one of the flaps into the "Drop Dead Gorgeous" box by mistake. You know, they really shouldn't have kept those boxes so close together. A similar mix-up got all my My Little Ponies sold in a garage sale one time. Sad, really.
Please, always arrange your boxes in order from "Ugly" to "Gorgeous" and leave sufficient space between them when separating your male actors. Don't let Overrated Handsomeness happen to you.
Heh, I want to make a PSA flash video about this. Who else has examples of overrated (or underrated) handsomeness? The public needs to know!
Okay, that's it. See you on the flip siiiide. (Forgive me, I watched Boondock Saints last night.)