Worried I suppose

I got a late start today. I woke up when I planned to wake up, but didn’t get up till much later. I just didn’t feel like getting up for some reason. I just liked to lie there in my bed. I was dead for some reason, and I don’t think that I’m tired or anything. I think that there has been a lot on my mind recently and I’m probably worrying myself sick.

I got to school about 10 minutes before my class started, which is very late for me actually. It was the latest I’ve gotten to school without any train problems. But I still made it and got ready in time. The first class I had today was 9th grade yuri. We were working on the taking the subway topic again. We continued with the book and going through the dialogue and the listening comprehension and ending with the speaking practice. I had to take over some of the class because CP informed me that she has the stomach flu. I know her pain and really that scares the shit out of me. I really don’t want to be so close to her anymore because of that. I will be going to Europe for week and I don’t want to be sick while I’m there. So I was doing some of the class and it was weird to be in front of the room. I haven’t taught any of these students before, even though I know all of them and am the assistant most of the time. I’ve known them since they joined the school and I’m really sad to leave. They were a bit zombie-ish today though.

The second class today 4th period was with 7th grade ume. We practiced for the recitation contest again, but this time we were working on linking words. Japanese tend to say each syllable with equal stress, but that doesn’t work well with English. So we are trying to speed them up. We went through all the scripts for the contest and they had an opportunity to work with the individual teachers at the end of class.

The next class was with 11th grade yuri and they had their oral test today. It took them awhile to get started because they had so many questions and didn’t understand what I was talking about. But after I got them started, they breezed right through it. We finished with about 20 minutes left. They did ok, but I thought they could have done better. It was too easy for them, but they really didn’t perform at their best and I know it. It was bad from the start and I didn’t push them hard enough to get the best results. We reviewed some more of the global issues and talked about War and what it was all about. Then we played hangman at the end with some of the words that they are supposed to know.

The last class of the day was with 11th grade fuji. They also had their oral test today. They were really really slow at the beginning and really loud as they asked their questions. It was good that I had yuri before this class and knew that time would go by really quickly so I let them be loud and noisy as we were getting ready for the test. I was taking my time with everything to make sure that I could get the best results from them. They did, much better, than I thought they would. I sort of changed some things in order to get them to do better and I was surprised that even the lowest students were able to do it. I did have to give a student a really bad grade though because she deserved it. I didn’t ask more much of the students, but if they tried, I was nice. The next time around though, it will be harder with more questions to answer.

After school, I was stuck grading all their papers. That was a nightmare because there was too many to do. I was able to finish around 6pm though. I was working for about 3 hours straight to get the entire test scores recorded and all the corrections. I was also correcting the papers for another class so that they would be ready for the test after midterms. It was very busy for me today and I really don’t like grading and scoring and correcting. But I got it all finished today and now I don’t have anything to worry about so that’s great for me. I’m down the final stretch now.

I took my new burberry suit home today because it stopped raining. I had dinner and watched Apollo 13 on TV. That’s a really good movie, even if it is all dubbed in Japanese. I haven’t ever seen the whole movie and I still think I didn’t see all of it. But it was great. I was having mad coughs today. I don’t know why either. After the movie, I decided to cut my hair. This was like at midnight though. My hair has been going out of control because it is much longer than I’ve had it in like 6 years and my wavy hair is coming back so my spikes weren’t really spikes as more like a flat tire. I finished showering and everything around 1am and then I started typing this.

I was also talking with my sister before her last final. I will send over some more money, in case I don’t make it back alive from Amsterdam since its one crazy ass place. I thought I should just make sure things are set, just in case things don’t go well. It’s always better to be prepared for the worse.