Kumo-san is at it again/Gotta catch 'em all!

Well first of all, I found this and just kept laughing:

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kumo = spider

Monday was kind of horrible. This is because I had forgotten something at home and felt bad about having to leave during 1st hour to go get it and I felt awkward asking the principal. >>;


Also, it turned out one of my Monday classes was supposed to be the whole 50 minutes but I thought it was just 30 so I really messed up some things for H-sensei and the lesson I had done, I didn't much care for. >>;;


But then in an afternoon class things got funny. T-sensei asked the class to compare the two of us (it was supposed to be that they realized we're both teachers) but instead the immediate response was "MEGANE" (glasses). For some reason, Japan has this huge thing about glasses. Not like in the old days where kids were made fun of, just this...extra attention. I dunno. They proceeded to say we were both wearing pants and that we both had hands. While correct, completely not what we were driving at. xDD


On Tuesday, I just pretty much collapsed and the effects are still skewing me up a bit. Well ok not literally collapsed, but basically I've been sleeping and napping in patterns that make my cycles kind of messed up since then.


Reason being I had 5 out of 5 possible classes that day, 4 full 45 minutes periods of elementary school in a row, a rush to the middle school, food, and then another class. Eventful, a fine day over all just got really tired. And because of all of these classes (I also had several other full 50 minute ones later this week) I was doing a lot of prep work at home. This is part of why my sleeping was off- though its partially due to my being tired, thus putting off prep things xD

Wednesday had another elementary class, using more cut-up-sentences lessons, and the class 7. I made another cut up thing for using the grammar "must". I put this picture on there: Intense!

And described: "You didn't do anything at home all day so now your Mother is mad! Let's find out what she wants you to do!"
(Shout out to you, Mom~! <3)


Sentences included: You must do the laundry, you must clean your room, you must get a job, you must get married soon, and many others. xD


In class 7 (a special class), one of the girls has behavior problems. Another teacher eventually took her out of the room but not before she went around saying "Shut Up" and messing with stuff. I was impressed that she knew that term, but still. Aside from that, we played the memory game with food terms, and they really enjoyed it. The girl student and K-sensei were "big sis and little sis" xD At the end, we see what cards we have and list off the foods, saying that would be our lunch for today, and then saying "you should eat healthier" or "thats too much" or"thats so well-rounded!" xD Also, I can't remmeber which calss this was, but I had to sneeze, and did so while things were rather quiet. Quite suddenly, there were a few agreements of my sneeze being "cute". I know I'm soooo adorable, right? RIGHT??? Right. xD


On Thursday, I was originally scheduled to have 6 classes. Yeah, wow. I'd have one with M-sensei, 3 elementary classes, lunch, a class with K-sensei (me doing the whole of it) and then another class with M-sensei.
Next week is the exams for the kids so I was taking on several full classes this week (the teachers wanted class-long activities for review for them). But as it turned out, I olny had 3 classes- the elementary school classes. This is because M-sensei (and T-sensei) had to attend a conference, so I didn't have those 2 classes with M-sensei. 
Then, because of whatever reason, the days schedule (everyone's classes) got moved around so the original 5th hour got movef to 4th hour. 5th hour was supposed to be K-sensei's class, but it got put to 4th hour. However, 2nd-4th was my elementary time. So, I left her my notes on the game/word search activity I had planned, and she was able to use it while I was away. So less stress that day for me, but still....


Also it seems that them smiling, waving, and then saying "Hello" to me, and then me responding the same way is -still- worthy of giggles. I still am not sure why it's still funny. Also, I wore my blue shirt that day. In the hall at elementary school, a sensei (who I never work with or see, so she didn't remember my name) tried to get a little kid to at least wave at me, and she called me "Ao-chan". (Ao means blue). I thought it was really cute, and it did get the kid to wave. xD Yay, now I'm Ao-chan!!


On Friday, there was a spider on the floor in the teacher's office. I decided it would not be cool if it crept into someone's basket or bag and so I tried scooping it up with paper. The nurse-sensei noticed, I got it up and got it outside from the window. I mention this because of this running joke I have with K-sensei. I showed her the big spider picture and now when things are inconvenient or go wrong or something weird happens, we say it's the spider plotting. xD
For the upcoming exams, we recorded some dialogue for the listening tests. We went to the english-sensei room for quiet to record. Right when we turned on the recorder, a machine from the nearby construction area started up. We blamed the spider. xD'


For a full 50 minute class with H-sensei, I found this great game. I took dialogues from the book and wrote them out on paper. I split them into teams of pairs- H-sensei had to participate. I'd post a paper outside the room. One person would be the reader, the other would be the writer. I was able to reinforce the "-er" thing since they had just learned "baseball playER", so then they understood that the -er is indicative of person who does something. They did janken (rock-paper-scissors decides EVERYTHING in this country xD). The reader would run out as many times as they want to read the dialogue and report it to the writer. They had to get punctuation and everything right! And then show it to me when they finish. I showed corrections too. Then the next paper would be up outside and the pairs switched roles. H-sensei started "complaining", I announced loudly that no complaining would be tolerated. xD


But yeah, I really enjoyed that game and I was really happy with it.  


Now about their exams- they may be next week, but my vacation doesn't start util almost the end of the month. Reason being that although teachers use this time for grading, classes and everything still happen. I knew about this before, but I still just don't quite understand why. :/ Oh well.


In other news, I have collected 3/6 of those McDonalds cups. I'm thrilled--neeeeed allllll xD