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	Japan Entry: New school
	Japan Entry: New school


It's pretty sad when you wish the typhoon would hit at just the right time so you don't have to go on a really long fieldtrip with a bunch of junior high students who will just giggle and stare at you for the five hour bus ride. I have to get up and be at school for 5:45am tommorow. This makes me sad. sad Anyway, I've been pretty stressed about the first couple weeks of school. I have to give a million and one self intros next week and then I start teaching classes the following week. So I was sitting there making lesson plans, wondering when on earth I would get a chance to eat, when a couple of my supervisors tell me I'll be joining them for a game of some sort. I resisted the urge to look at them like they were crazy. The game turned out to be pretty fun though. Most of the teachers played, which was something you'd never see in the states. Young teachers, old teachers, everyone. And it's a game that's played with a MASSIVE pink ball. (It's Japan, and even the manhole covers here are cute, so the ball has to be flaming pink....) I won't go into the rules because I'm lazy. You just have to know that the ball was pink. But yeah, I had a lot of fun. It eased my anxiety about the teachers not accepting me. A few of them seemed more comfortable to talk to me after that. The worst part of today was the fact that one of the teachers dragged me along to meet some of the students. I do NOT want to talk to the students before I give my self intro lesson. It gives them too much time to talk about me before they know the facts. Some of these kids were annoying. One of the guys was humping the air... and I wasn't about to ask about that. The separation between boys and girls here is SO weird. There are no mixed groups. I'm not used to it, and in my opinion that'll give the students bad attitudes towards each other. But whatever. Oh yeah, and the teacher kept telling the students to speak to me in English, which embarassed them to no end. Thanks for making things harder sensei! Key of Cupcakes · Tue Mar 11, 2008 @ 06:46pm · 2 Comments


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	At 4:03 AM, only two things about this entry struck me. 1) Flaming pink ball. 2) Guy humping air. Laughed so hard I hit a coughing fit and now I can't breathe and my lungs hurt. crying Offline Shadow Vandale · Community Member · Thu Mar 13, 2008 @ 12:04pm


	Did you ever notice that there is a certain margin of time in the middle of the night in which EVERYTHING is hilarious? xD Offline Key of Cupcakes · Community Member · Thu Mar 13, 2008 @ 02:36pm

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