shot Monday

This week is 40 minute classes, which actually goes by really fast. Today, we had a test in the 3rd period, which is my first class of the day and we had to finish things in a hurry. I got to school a little early today to get ready for that. I wanted to make sure that things were good today and I didn’t want to look or appear confused, but I managed to fail at that.

The 9th grade Yuri class did surprisingly well on their test. Well most of them did pretty good, while there were a few that didn’t do so well. But still much better than Ran, which is a bit of a surprise to me. I think that with Ran, it’s their attitude towards things that make them not so likable. But today for the test, they found a way to weasel their way out of doing things, and I had to plug the holes or they’d exploit it more. Some students I was harder on and some weren’t. I think that some of the students didn’t think it was fair, but I did it accordingly towards their scores on the other sections to help the student. I think that I probably wasn’t as generous as CP today with this test. Even though the students did do very well, I’m not sure how she grades or what the curve should be, but it’s always going to be different and based on different standards.

11th grade Ran today had a test too. We had the listening comprehension for this class. It was their last one, so it was a bit difficult and will separate the great listeners from the good ones. I thought it was a bit difficult because there was a lot of writing involved and it was pretty fast, even for me so I think that it would be difficult for them. We had a lot of teachers in the room and that confused me for a little bit. I actually forgot which teacher I was supposed to go to the classroom with and accidentally left one of them in the teacher’s office waiting for me. I felt really bad about that. But it was also weird to have 4 teachers in the room. It was my classroom, but the listening test is administered by MW, so she came to the class even though it wasn’t her time to teach them. She did the test and then she left. There wasn’t much time left after that, so I got them started on the next 4 questions that they will need to answer for the test. I passed out the pamphlets only to get them returned to me, shortly after.

The last class of the day was with 7th grade yuri. I think that their English ability is one of the highest in the 7th grade, but they didn’t prove it today. They had a lot of trouble with pronunciation of the Aladdin play that they’ve been working on since the beginning of summer. I think that it’s the 11th hour and they shouldn’t be struggling like they are now. I’m not sure why all the teachers this semester have taken it nonchalantly either. It’s very strange, but I guess that they were busy with everything else that things slipped through the crack and this had to be one of them. I guess the students didn’t get enough practice in there, and we haven’t practiced much with them either since we’ve been preparing them to speak at the English Fun Fair. I think that this is a point where having too much events is detrimental to the student’s learning ability and they just get so spread thin that they aren’t learning much anymore. They need some more work and I’m not sure that they’ll be able to get it in time for the English festival, which is this Saturday.

After school, I helped with the male teachers to put up the Christmas lights on the 2nd floor of the main building. Tomorrow we will work on the 3rd floor doing pretty much the same thing, but probably with a different design later. I didn’t have much work to do after that, so I left school early. I didn’t want to spend too much time in the office because it’s artificially hot in there and it’s ridiculous that it’s always so extreme in that room.

I had dinner at Bamiyan tonight, but I didn’t eat Fried Rice, since that’s all I eat there. I had Ramen instead since I haven’t had that in a long time and since it was really cold outside, I thought that it would be good to have a little warm meal for the evening. It was a good way to end the day, Ramen and Gyoza.

I came home and watched some TV and worked on my computer for a little bit. I was watching SMAP x SMAP. I haven’t seen that show in a long time. Today they had a special with two people of the group doing a Triathlon. It was pretty interesting and showed me that I need to get out there and do some more exercising and I need to stay in shape or I’ll end up getting huge. I’m thinking about getting back into gear and playing more tennis since I have left over time after school.