Friday, October 22, 2004

It was gorgeous today

The weather was perfect San Diego weather. It was actually hot today. The sun was out and shining. I woke up later than usual and took my time to do everything. I took my time getting to the bus stop, getting on the train and still got to school at the same time as usual. Which to be honest with you is very weird. I met with CP during 2nd period because we both have it off. We went over our duties for the English festival next month. All I have to do is be in charge of some English games that is in one of the rooms. So I'll be doing that. But that was a quick meeting and then I just sat at my desk for a little bit before class started.

I finally gave the English Department chair my lesson plans for teaching teachers and teaching the 8th grade. I feel bad because after I turned it in, I started to make revisions. I've bascially changed most of the information, but I will give her another copy later if she has any questions or concerns, which I'm sure she will have. I've done a thorough job of making her worried.
Friday classes are awkward for some reason. I don't really enjoy the 8th grade class. They have this aura that's bad. I'm not sure what it is, but I don't like it. They have a lot to learn and they could improve their attitude. It's bad for me to say because soon I'll be teaching them on Saturdays.

But I really enjoy working with the 11th grade class. They are really getting it and are together. Even though Ms. Asada seems to be non-friendly. I'll have to deal with that I guess. She's very firm and has a weird relationship with the students and the teachers. I can tell, but this class was good. We are now just starting to work on the final term speech material about taking a trip somewhere.

After class, I met with Mr. Shiomi about my money situation. He told me about the details and my commuter pass. They will hook me up with a 6 month commuter pass from Hongodai to Toritsu-Daigaku, which is something I NEED badly.

I stayed way after school to work on the stuff that I put on the lesson plan. It was more difficult than I thought, that's why I started to make revisions. I mean the information and things like that wasn't hard, but trying to put it together. My brain wasn't working today. I don't know what was going on. It was hard to get my work done, but I started to like at 5pm. I was working on a website that I will be using for my class as a supplementary guide for the students. I was showing some of the computer teachers at the school and they were impressed. I just hope it works for the students and they go check it out. I was going to show the teacher that sits next to me, but there was a situation that was going down. I don't know what it was since it was all in Japanese, but some students got busted for something.

It was in the 7th grade because I know those trouble students. I'm glad they were getting yelled at, they deserved it. I'm sure that they aren't just being rude in my class, they are being rude in all their classes. The top teacher was yelling at them, and it seemed as if all the teachers were taking their turn yelling at them. It was very amuzing. I stayed around way pass when I wanted to just to see what would happen. I mean the nicest teacher was the one who instigated the whole attack. Which was the thing that caught my attention the most. I'll eventually find out what happen tomorrow, I'm sure.

I've got to go to school on Saturday to meet up with the BOSS and Mr. K or EK's dad. He wants to see how I'm doing. So far, I guess I would say ok. But we'll see what happens tomorrow.The meeting with the delegates was cancelled because not many of the delegates could go. Which I think is a bad thing, because I did a lot of preparation for them. Sucks for me. Anyways, I got home and realized that I don't have much money left. I'm going to try to squeeze out the remainder of my money till Wednesday which is the earliest time I can go get some money from the bank. If not, then I'll have to take a little more from my credit card, which I really don't want to do anymore.