So, among all the adventures listed below I have also managed to hold a job. I've been assisting in the village's Junior High- mainly helping out with pronunciation and keeping the kids interested by making a fool of myself on a daily basis. It's fun and the other teachers are really nice. The head English teacher is really relaxed and helps me out a lot. (He's the one in the back in the orange shirt in the teacher's group pic) The students crack me up everyday and most will even try to talk to me in English! As I walk to and from school there is always a group of students across the field yelling out "good morning" to me. This past week there was a regional speech contest that 6 of our students entered. I worked almost everyday with them, got to know them pretty well, and worked on the ever evasive "s" and "r" and "th" sounds. And we won! Well kind of. These two hilarious 7th graders won "Most Comical." That counts right?
This past week also marked my first time visiting an elementary school. For these visits I have to plan all the lessons for the 6 grades. It was a lot of work and I can't say everything went smoothly but I left pretty happy and with a bunch of 1st and 2nd graders REALLY excited to say "HELLO. MY NAME IS ___" at the top of their lungs. I hand it to all teachers out there.. they deserve to have the whole summer off.
My first teacher enkai (Drinking Party)
The 7th graders (the boys won most comical.. and im damn proud)
Me and Kaori.. another speaker
Our werewolf student (he's a handful at full moon time)
Pics from teaching the 1st and 2nd graders
3 comments:
Wow! My daughter is a teacher - I wish I'd had a teacher like you when I was little. Well done on the speech contest. Being willing to make a fool of yourself is half the game.
But... are you really up at 4:30am writing these?! Or, is this just a quirk of international time zones?
Love you, Mum
i love everything that you write! i am just soaking this up and so thrilled to hear about how you are doing! you're a teacher! i hope you are as well as it seems that you are! i miss you! i love you! keep the blog posts coming!
you look so perfect for that job, totally brochure-worthy. im lovin the blog btw x0x
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