Just a long ass Tuesday

It was just plain long today. I needed to get to work a little bit early because I stayed up late last night to watch a Korean movie and type up the vocabulary words for the reports that we needed for class. The bad part was after I finished at 2am and was really tired. I couldn’t go to sleep for some reason. I just didn’t feel like sleeping, even though I was sleepy. I know that doesn’t make sense, but that’s how it was last night. It took me over an hour and a half before I just fell asleep. I had to wake up at 6:30am to get ready to go work.

I got to school around 9:30am and I made my copies for class and then I had class right then. I didn’t even have time to eat breakfast when I normally do. It was just that busy today. I walked in and immediately had teachers come up to me and ask me things. I gave CHda her white day gift that was a nice chocolate set from Kyoto. I was very lucky to have met her on the way in because it would have been harder for me to give it to her later. It was also convenient for me to talk to her about our elective class today too.

The first class today was 8th grade ran. They had their speech contest last week, so they didn’t have to practice for that today. We reviewed some of the animals with them and then we gave them a word search that we gave to the 7th graders. Surprisingly, the 7th graders did a better job of finding words than the 8th graders did. The 8th grade students simply couldn’t concentrate enough to do it. I helped a lot of the students so that they could finish. The Japanese English teacher in the class is quitting so this was her last day and her last class. I’m going to miss how cute she is, but not going to miss how poorly she controlled the class.

The second class I had today for 3rd period was an electives class for 11th graders. There were only five students taking the preview class and they weren’t high level, like I was planning for. I really had to slow it down for them. I gave them the insight into what the topics were and what we were going to cover. They understood most of it, but it took a long time for them to understand. I wanted to show them a few tricks that they could learn to study English and how to write a better essay and give a better interview when they need to for the University exam. I had planned to do a lot today, but since they weren’t such high level students, I had to take it slower. The most important thing was for them to understand what I was showing them and how they could use it.

The second class that I had with the 11th graders was another lecture. I finished tying everything together and let them read the packets that I had prepared for them. I wanted them to see what I was talking about in the first hour. I wanted to teach them and let them use it right away I did a lot of checking to make sure that they understood. I think that they were able to understand, even if it was only a little. It’s only the preview class so I think that next year, whoever takes over my position will have to teach them how to pass the university entrance exam.

I stayed after school to work on my next year’s schedule. While was I working on this though, one of the heavy basketball hoops fell over. We had to lift it back up and tie it down with rope. No one knew how it happened though. It was a bit strange since it is a heavy basketball set and it moved some 50 meters to where it fell over. Not only did a fall over, it spun around a few times too. I was a bit curious about this. I heard from a teacher that saw it happen that it was a twister for about 2 seconds that caused it. It also broke the glass in the door to her classroom that she was teaching in. That must have been scary. Anyways, we took care of it before the class for that hour was finished.

I stayed after to see if anyone needed my help, but they never came back to the office so, I left school. I was heading home to get changed into more comfortable clothes. Then I immediately went to Higashi Totsuka to meet up with everyone. It turns out that the members were Ken, Jose, Yoichiro, and me. That gets a bit lonely right. We went to Wara Wara in Higashi Totsuka and talked for a little bit. Since I arrived very late, I didn’t get much to eat and drink. I got a gin tonic, but was really hungry. They were about to leave, so I didn’t get much to eat.

After the drinking, we went back to Ken’s house and then we had sukiyaki for dinner. It was really good. I was able to talk to Ken’s parents too and most of it was in Japanese. I stayed at his house until around 12am- 1am. I got a ride with Yuji and talked on the phone with TUda for about 15 minutes about how I teach English to her. She was a bit worried about her English, that’s why she didn’t show up today. I think that might be the problem with other people too, so it did provide a little explanation of why they don’t come out often. It also explains the comment Ken made as we were walking to his house. I think that there is a big gap and I think that it left some people with a strange feeling and a lack of trust. I went back into the room and just hung out for a little bit longer before we left to go home.

I was very tired since I haven’t been getting enough sleep recently, so I came home and immediately slept. I couldn’t even type the entry to this journal. I tried to, but it didn’t make sense when I read it over again. It was all just gibberish.

My internet cut out again. I haven’t had this problem this much before. But I really don’t like it. I would like to have it ready and available when I need it. But I think that since it has been windy that something was disconnected or something like that. It really has been inconvenient for me though. It is really hard for me to do anything without it. I realized how much I rely on the internet and realized that I don’t do anything else with this laptop than go online. There isn’t anything I could do with this computer besides the internet. That is a real problem I think. The only thing I could do is type in my journal.