~Shorty~

I think this will be decently short?


Well today I was supposed to do some activities with class 6. This is a class of 2 students. Two 2nd year (8th grade) boys. The difference is just that they're more behind their classmates. So I got a battleship game prepared and gluing and cutting pictures of food to play a really large memory game on the floor. 


But then when the teacher and I got to the room, the homeroom teacher for class 6 and class 7 told us that the boys were absent. xD So I didn't have that class...next time I guess. xD


Next I went to 2-5 with a different teacher, and we were reviewing "When I ____, (whoever) was ____ing _____." and that kind of structure. So for my part, I had them get in a circle, and the head teacher would play my music, and stop it randomly as the kids passed around my cat ball. Speaking of, I've named him NekoMaru-san. Neko is Cat. Maru is Circle. I feel it's fitting. xD The kids like it. 


When the music stopped, the kid holing Nekomaru-san would have to draw a slip of paper from 3 different bags. One was the "When I was" bag, then the "My" bag, and then the "was" bag. I purposely included some dumb things. For example, one student drew and repeated "When I was reading a book, my cat was cooking ramen" xD There was also a "When I was listening to music, my rabbit was going to school." It was a lot of fun.


For lunch, I get the same 2 girls interested in chatting with me on the way to and from the classroom. I really like that they feel comfortable with me, so I speak to them more personally. By that I mean generally commenting about how she feels about gym class, and about how exhausting elementary kids are to teach. I'm considering asking the head English teacher soon about a class-wide optional homework for the 3rd years. They could each have a notebook that they'd write to me asking questions about whatever in English and I'd respond. I'd expect only a small amount of them to do this, but as middle school is writing-focused for English, it would be a good opportunity for them to speak to me one on one, practice, and they can learn cultural things about America. I'll give it a little longer, maybe not until after summer break to ask. But I feel encouraged by some of the kids.


Today, a group of them during lunch were using the words "hentai" and "ero". They both are used under different contexts generally, but they basically mean....um....inappropriate, pervy people or things. Just hearing it made me laugh a little and a nearby girl caught on what I was laughing about and immediately reported to her friends about how i knew those words. xD No, I'm not worried about it.


Lunch today included milk (of course) soup with carrot, onion, potato, little shreds of pork and green onion. There was a kind of lightly fried rice with seafood in it, another variety of cucumber-green things salad and then what looked like an egg roll, but its basically cooked salmon inside with something leafy and a lemon taste. It was really good. But in Japanese, the girl who walked with me asked if I liked it and I assured her I liked fish. I was funny, before we left the classroom she did a salute at me, asking if I was ready to go. xD And just after I was done eating, a boy asked in English if I liked the salmon. They get surprised when foreigners say they like fish. I thought it was great and I was really happy he approached me and used English and then didn't look too awkward about it after. xD


So that was pretty much today, I enjoyed myself a lot~