40 minutes and my last EVER class with 11th graders

I woke up earlier today since I knew that it was 40 minutes classes today and I needed to prepare things in case CP doesn’t show up. The weird part about that was because we all had mentioned it to her so that she wouldn’t forget that classes started earlier today. I had reminded her a few times, and so did a few other teachers.

But low and behold, she forgot. Fortunately for me, I knew what we would be doing today for 7th grade kiku. It was the first time I took the lead of the class, so the students were a bit weirded out by it. But I got things started and figured that she would stumble in class a bit late and she would take over. That’s exactly how things turned out and the sad part about that, was it was all expected. But the few things that I didn’t expect were the complaints that I got from her on how I had organized things. Like having groups of four instead of three and making more copies when she had already made some, but since we were in a hurry and didn’t know where any of her stuff was, we just went with it and sort of said, you weren’t here and it really isn’t my responsibility. That’s how the day started and I wasn’t sure if it would carry on throughout the whole day.

4th period was with 8th grade ran and they were just presenting their “My favorite souvenir” speeches.

5th period was exactly the same as the previous class. I think that the difference between yuri and ran, is that yuri really is higher level. Most of the students in this class did better, and seemed like they practiced more and were better prepared.

6th period was my last class that I would lead at Yakumo. It’s sad actually. Things were setup during lunch and it didn’t take me long to get everything going. I had a visitor come see my class since it would be my last and things went perfect. Everything went smoothly and there wasn’t a problem at all. Things went too smoothly actually and we even had time at the end to go around the world… via Google Earth. I showed them places and I think that really impressed them.

I stuck around to clean up for a little bit. The winners of the game today chose postcards instead of chocolate, which was quite surprising since both the other classes chose chocolates instead. I stayed at school till around 8pm studying Japanese, and bothering the other teachers. I was checking a lot of tests to make sure their English grammar and spelling is all correct. The main problems that I saw on the tests were the spacing. But that was it.

I stayed at school really late and it was because I was helping another teacher with questions for my sayonara party and helping another teacher get acquainted with her newly bought computer. She has had an old computer, but bought a new one and really didn’t know too much about it. So I showed her and taught her how to use it. I think that was pretty cool.
Then I ended up meeting with another teacher for dinner and some tea. The tea wasn’t that great and I will be glad to go back to San Diego to get some real milk tea instead of the tasteless things here. But it was nice and we were talking a lot. The problem here was that there were some students on the second floor of the café we were at. That’s a problem because they aren’t supposed to be there and especially so late at night. We should have said something, but it just brings about trouble that no one wants, so we just ignored it and hoped that we didn’t get spotted because it would have been bad and we would have had to say something and write them up. We don’t like being the mean, bad teachers you know? I only had a sandwich for dinner, which really wasn’t much. I wished I had more to eat, but I was tired and wanted to get home. I would have to get up early tomorrow to go to a Canada day festival.