Exhausted

I remember the times when I used to have Wednesdays’ off, but now I don’t. Work was just incredibly exhausting. After three days of non-stop work of 12 hours a day, you really do get tired. I’m enjoying my time working and I am getting a lot done. I’m making good progress with all the classes that I’m heading. There’s always room for improvement of course, but it’s been a good start to the semester, but it’s only the first week. There are many things to come and I’m sure that it will make things more interesting.

One of my classes moved from Wednesday to Friday so today I only had 5 classes to teach and I finally handed the reigns to the club back to CP for Wednesdays. I’m glad that we took care of that because it was beginning to become too much for me. Right now everything is just going well and things are looking good for the next few weeks.

I had planned the activities that we will do on my extended trip in Hakone and Shizuoka with both the 11th graders and the 9th graders. I’m really looking forward to it and now that I’ve gotten things out of the way, I’m really excited about it. I will complete one of my goals to go to Mt. Fuji. It will be a great opportunity for me show the other teachers what I’m really made of and see if I can really be able to teach English to our students.

After that I was called upon for one more task. Mind you this was already at 7pm and I was getting ready to leave. But I didn’t mind since I was helping one of the people who helped me get used to the school and made me want to work here in the first place. I had to tackle the job of reading and editing the passages for the 7th grade recitation contest. The English department had decided that instead of going with 4 Harry Potter passages, they would split with Disney. So now there are 2 Harry Potter Passages and 2 Disney passages. I had the privilege to choose which ones we would use, and then the honor of editing it to fit 7th grade reading and speaking level. If you think this is an easy task, it’s not as easy as you’d think. This took about an hour to complete, but really it wouldn’t be completed because I would have to go home and to work on it there because I have the nice computer set up to get everything in the right format that the computers at school aren’t able to do.

After school today, I had dinner with two teachers; one of my closest friends in the office who I’ve had many conversations with and her husband. We went to Peco in Jiyugaoka. Since we all had worked very hard and she had invited me to dinner I had to accept.