Regular Wednesday

I actually woke up early today, only to get to school later than usual. It was weird. I got an earlier train too, but it was a local train. I’ve never been packed in like that. It was so bad that I couldn’t breathe right anymore. It was really packed and it was really tough to get to school. I got to the station around 8:15am. It was weird but everything was going so slow and it was something unreal since I had done everything earlier than usual. The trains were late today and that in itself was weird, I don’t really know the reason why, but it was going slow.

My first period class didn’t go as well as I planned it to go. There’s something with these 11th grade students that gets me to teach horribly. I think that we punched out a lesson and they were able to learn something, but it wasn’t where I was planning to go. None of my objectives really came to life and I was more worried about them just speaking English than getting them ready for the test. They are a high level class so I think I will just try to get all of the test material for next week and have them concentrate more on that. Since I wasn’t able to get what I wanted to do done today.

The classes in the middle were about the same as usual. The 8th grade class was just reading up on Chapter 2 after their introduction speeches, and we just followed along the book. The 3rd period 10th grade class went well too. We had just introduced what their test will look like and gave them a paper to work with a partner on introducing each other. I think it’s too simple for them, but that’s what in the syllabus for them to learn. So we just go along with it. They seemed interested and weren’t so bored with the topic. They didn’t understand some of it because they didn’t know some of the celebrities on the sheets of paper since those celebrities were American sport stars.

I had a nice break in the middle of the day to relax and just gather myself before the next two 9th grade classes. The first 9th grade class was a bit loud, but that seems to be usual lately. They were able to complete the assignments and everything. They were on the ball and knew what was going on with the directions. My last class was great. The second 9th grade class was attentive and they really wanted to learn and understand what was going on. They really understood what I was talking about and they focused on a few things that I didn’t think that they would know about or even understand about the directions chapter.

I wanted to leave school early, but didn’t get a chance to because I got asked to do something right before I left to punch in my stamp card. I was planning to leave at 5:30pm, but that incident prevented me from leaving. I will need to be required to submit a proposal for what I plan to do in September on the Gotemba trip with the 11th graders. It kept me after school for another 2 hours. I mean right when I was about to go home I was just assigned with another huge task to do. That wasn’t very nice of the English department chair; of course it was better than me getting the information at the last minute. So as I was leaving I had to contemplate what I will be doing for something that will happen 4 months later. But since the VP had asked for it, I better make it good.