All mixed up

Today things got all mixed up. The schedule changed last week and I wouldn’t have to be at school till 11:50am, but little did I know that it changed again and I wasn’t notified. Therefore I missed a class today. But that wasn’t my fault and it did give me enough time to get the other things I needed to get done today too.

The first class I had today 4th period was with 11th grade ran. We were starting to work on the going abroad topic and introducing the brochures to them. I gave them the questions and let them work on it. Everyone was tired and dismal and I think it had something to do with the loss to Australia in the soccer game. Apparently at least half of the country watched that match. I didn’t realize the time and talking with the other teacher about it and class just finished. It was a bit quick and I wasn’t really ready for it.

The 5th period class was moved to 3rd period today, so I ended up having this time off. I used this time to work on my laptop since I had brought it to school. I needed to take care of some financial aid stuff and working on a new picture spread for the students talking about travel. I wanted to show them some pictures of my travels.

The 6th period class today was with 10th grade fuji, which usually is 3rd period today, but since there was a switch, it moved to 6th period. We were letting them present their speeches about their trip to Santa Barbara and then we gave them a listening test at the end. That took up the time of the whole period.

Soon after that, I got wrapped up with going to English club. We were working with the junior high school students today. We played a game with categories and the alphabets. It was pretty fun and I think that it did help the students think more and learn how to connect the ideas of what they learned with vocabulary words.

I ended up staying at school fairly late since I still had a lot of work to do to prepare for Thursday’s listening test. I had to get all the CDs and stuff worked out. I did a lot of correcting for the 11th grade ran class because I wanted to make sure I got rid of all the stuff and at the very least get it off my desk. I didn’t want to worry about it anymore. I was about to leave around 8pm, which is really really late for me. But the VP stopped me and invited me to have dinner with her and some of the student teachers that are working at the school this week.

We were looking for a Tonkatsu place and we went to a few different locations. But we ended up at JR Meguro station and had dinner on the 5th floor. I thought that it was average since it wasn’t a very special place that we went to, but it was still good, just nothing awesome. We didn’t leave the restaurant till around 9pm and then we had to drive back to drop off the VP and I was dropped off at Yokohama station. I made it home in enough time to catch a bit of soccer on TV. I saw the Spain and Ukraine game. Spain spanked the living crap out of Ukraine. It was one of the kinds of games you like to watch if you want someone to win and win big.