The internet came back

Today I was a bit busy, but only a little bit. I had first period today with 7th grade fuji. They did more on their riddles and they presented. It was their last oral class as 7th graders. They did a pretty good job considering they didn’t get the preparation that they needed for the task. I think the students really are capable of a lot of things. I don’t feel that, we teachers do enough to prepare them for success, and more or less, just expect them to know it. It’s a good thing that when kids are young, they just absorb information without really understand why or how. They were being rushed because they didn’t have enough time to have everyone present, so they didn’t get much time to prepare. I thought that was a bit bad for the students.

2nd through 4th period was Speech contest rehearsal. A lot of the students forgot a lot of their lines. They were still making a lot of the mistakes that were supposed to be corrected already. I really hope that they will be ready for the big competition. I know that a lot of them have been practicing a lot and I’d like to see more of the underdogs to get placed high in the competition. I have been working with a few girls on their pronunciation and their presentation for the speech contest, so of course I will be a little bias as to see who I want to win. It’s a good thing that I won’t be a judge though. I didn’t get to see the first group go, so I can’t really tell, how bad things could get if they don’t remember their lines. I mean the second through fourth groups are supposed to be better too. And they did make a lot of mistakes, which will cost them some major points in the long run. The fourth group though, was pretty spot on. I was a bit tired during the rehearsal since I haven’t been getting enough sleep and food.

5th period was with 7th grade ran, They did the same thing as the first period class. They got up in front of the class to read out their riddles and the students had to guess. They were supposed to have a few more minutes to prepare, as sort of a review of the things that they learned, but that didn’t really happen. We got started almost right away, and I think it was because there are more students in this class. Every pair went up to speak, which went over time, but since it was the last day and the next class would be English class, we decided to go over to finish. I think that their English has improved, but I couldn’t tell by how much. It was good though and it’s nice to know that you’re finished and I don’t have to teach for a little bit.

I left school soon after that. I met one of MTki’s friends on the train going home. It was a bit embarrassing because I was sleeping on the train when I met her. This is the problem with not getting enough sleep and having to sleep on the train on the way home and going to work. The trains are emptier when I go home earlier, so I like that I’m leaving work earlier so I could have a seat on the 2 hour trip back. But that causes me to dose off. I couldn’t hear her at first because I had my headset on. I almost missed my station to be honest with you. But I got lucky, like I always do and woke up at my station.

I came home and changed my clothes a little and went over to her house to fix the internet. All I had to do was restart the modem. It worked and they got the internet to work well after that, but there is no guarantee that it will stay that way. I stayed over there from around 4pm to about 10:30pm. I watched a few movies while I was over there and ate a lot of food.

The first movie that was on, was Finding Neverland. Since I hadn’t seen it before, I enjoyed it. It really has a good story and it is pretty good. But I only saw bits and parts of it because of the conversations that were going on. The second movie that was showing was You got served. I only saw a little bit of that since we turned the channel since it wasn’t very interesting for them and for me. We found another movie called Taxi, which I haven’t ever seen, but they have. They liked it and thought it was funny and suggested that I watch it. I thought it was the typical cliché kind of movie with the characters and plot. It wasn’t great or anything and it was a little funny, but still it missed the target. The last movie that we saw was getting towards the late evening was Taking Lives. It seemed like a pretty good movie before I had seen it, but it is a little predictable since I’ve seen a lot of movies like that one before. We always know who the killer is and it’s easy to tell by the plot. I think that if they just show you who the killer is in the beginning and don’t make it a guessing game, it would be more interesting. It wasn’t a bad movie though, but it wasn’t great. I did have a lot of distractions while watching so I couldn’t really be a good judge to say if it is good or not. At the end of the evening, we watched some CNN news. It was translated into Japanese, so I got to hear it in Japanese. It was live from the East Coast, so we were hearing the news at the same time that people in New York were. I thought that was pretty cool since it was 6am for them and only 11pm over here.

In the meanwhile, some of her friends came over and we had dinner and talked. Then I came back home and got ready for bed around 11pm. I watched some TV because I couldn’t sleep, even though I was tired all day from not getting enough sleep. My body has been weird about that lately. I hope that things get better or I’ll be in trouble physically.