Elementary Children Have Drained All My Love
Forgive me if this entry seems a bit messier than my usual writing. I spent eight hours today teaching cooking class and now I am so beat that I can barely move. It's nice though that I got a day and an hour of daikyuu. I think I'm going to have to use some of it tomorrow to go home early, though, which kind of defeats the purpose of gathering diakyuu. But the library's closed on Mondays so I can take advantage of that to stomp around and clean this apartment. How I'd love a clean apartment. Too bad I have to do it myself.
The classes themselves went well I think. I had some new faces which is always a good thing and a great confidence booster. Between the four classes I taught today, around 50 kids showed up which is up from the 35 of the last class in October. So I was happy about that, but it did mean a lot of work. Only two things caught on fire this time, though, so I can be grateful for that. I really have to try and remember some of the kids' names though. I wish my memory was better.
It was a rare gorgeous winter day today, which made me wish I hadn't been cooped up inside. The weather's been absolutely miserable lately, which always puts me in a bad mood. Days and days of cold, drizzling rain will make anyone grumpy. I can't wait for winter to end. Ug, Japanese winter is the pits, it really is. I'm regretting my decision to join Genki this year. I really don't want to do it this year because it's such a black hole of personal time. All I want to do is curl up under my kotatsu and not move until spring. My weekends are the only things keeping me sane lately.
I have three classes of second years on Tuesday and I have no idea what I should do with them. I'll brainstorm tomorrow I suppose.
Sleep now. Thinking later. Sorry again for the crappy entry.
The classes themselves went well I think. I had some new faces which is always a good thing and a great confidence booster. Between the four classes I taught today, around 50 kids showed up which is up from the 35 of the last class in October. So I was happy about that, but it did mean a lot of work. Only two things caught on fire this time, though, so I can be grateful for that. I really have to try and remember some of the kids' names though. I wish my memory was better.
It was a rare gorgeous winter day today, which made me wish I hadn't been cooped up inside. The weather's been absolutely miserable lately, which always puts me in a bad mood. Days and days of cold, drizzling rain will make anyone grumpy. I can't wait for winter to end. Ug, Japanese winter is the pits, it really is. I'm regretting my decision to join Genki this year. I really don't want to do it this year because it's such a black hole of personal time. All I want to do is curl up under my kotatsu and not move until spring. My weekends are the only things keeping me sane lately.
I have three classes of second years on Tuesday and I have no idea what I should do with them. I'll brainstorm tomorrow I suppose.
Sleep now. Thinking later. Sorry again for the crappy entry.