Sleep Deprived

Well, I got up earlier than usual and caught an earlier train, but the problem was that I got to school around the same time. Quite weird. The first class was on shopping. It was a ninth grade class. The class just went over a dialogue in the booklet they made a while ago. It's about shopping and how it will be like when they go shopping in America in a few months. It was a tad bit on the boring side, but much better than last week. Next week they will have an oral test, which really came to me as a surprise.

Then it was the 10th grade next. The activity for the day was the students had to invent a school and make up 4 dress code rules for their students to follow. Some of the classes were incredibly creative and most of them were crazy. But it should be interesting next week when we hear them present their schools with pictures. One of the classes, Kiku, has a school in Hawaii that with 3 students. And the students must wear very short short pants and have no hair. That will be interesting to hear about next week. I look forward to their presentations. I think that it's kinda sad because Erin will be leaving. Next week will be her last class, and then it's up to me to take care of the 10th grade. Kinda scary for me. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do to take care of that too. The format from last year was to do a debate, but I feel they need to get to a higher level for it to be effective. And the other teachers are incredibly busy now because of the English festival, so I'm on my own for the moment.

After school I was talking to Erin about this and then I met with Ms. Arai. We still needed to plan what we were going to do for the Senior classes in January. We decided we would do a baseball game and play snap cards, and do a form of sentence forming. The last class or the last 50 minutes we will need to talk to another teacher and find more resources. But it sounds like it will be fun. And I'm excited to get started working on it. It will be interesting I feel. This lasted to be a long conversation that didn't end until around 6:30pm. I stuck around till 7pm because another teacher wanted to eat Nikuman, and I would support her if she wanted more teachers to eat, but by 7pm nothing was happening and I was starving. So I left and grabbed dinner at MOS burger in Ishikawa cho station. It was great, expensive though and I ordered everything in Japanese. How wonderful, that really has been a challenge for me since I've been in Japan. But it looks like that's over now.