The long Tuesday

Actually Monday was pretty long too. I never mentioned it, but I didn't leave school until around 8pm, so that makes it an 11 hour work day.

The first class I had was the 9th grade, they were on stage getting ready to perform Annie. They've almost got everything down, except the movement of the props. They keep on switing locations. But they have improved a lot since the beginning of the month.

In the 10th grade section: we played a game where we would read tongue twisters and play the telephone game and the last person would have to come up to the teacher and tell us. It took them awhile to understand what we were saying. We only had time to do 3 tongue twisters in some classes.

From what I learned, Ms. YWbe choose CP's teaching Method over Erin Su. She believes that it's unorganized and that they can speak in Japanese and not soo much English as in CP's classes. Although I would argue the other way. I didn't say anything and kinda thought about it for when I start teaching my classes.

In the teachers' office at lunch, we were talking about root beer and dr. pepper since most Japanese people that I know don't like it. It tastes like medicine from what I've heard. And we exposed the teacher behind me too. I questioned if he was Japanese or not because he didn't know his blood type, since every Japanese person knew, so what did we do. We asked his wife...hahaha. She said of course he knows, he's a B. So he was lying to us. Because when we saw him again, he said that he didn't know, but maybe B. hahaha. He's funny, and all the teachers knew his blood type and tell me that he's definately a B in characteristics too.

Some of the 10th grade classes got really really loud that another teacher had to come over and tell us to quiet down. So in the last class we told them to be more quiet, and it worked. Although some of them translated what we were saying from English to Japanese and then back to English. Although we didn't think that it would go too well, sinc they are tongue twisters.

After all the classes Erin S. and I had a really good conversation as I was waiting for the English club to start. I asked her about how long she had been teaching, which was only since this past April, like many other teachers. It was her first year and she wouldn't go all the way. We talked about our lesson plans for the next part of the class after the test. She told me about her experiences working in the JET programme. It's very evenly divided with good and bad experiences. They've got to reform that system to the max. It was nice to talk to her since I'll be replacing her and I wanted to know how she felt about it. I should be offended because she always makes her plan on her own and usually never includes me so I just stand there most of the time, but I can feel she's starting to include me now. She's a really nice person I feel and much like me I think, well in the way that American's think opposed to the way that Japanese people think. She was grading papers, and then the girls from the English Club called me again to go do some candy lanes.

I was talking to the advisor again, which was nice. And I talked to two new students that I haven't really talked to before. I taught them a new strategy to learning English, if they were interested. One of them will study abroad when she finishs at Yakumo. She needs vast improvement in my opinion, but we'll see what happens in the coming weeks. They think highly of themselves, that's for sure.