Today’s classes went really well – only three and they were finished by lunch time. The afternoon I spent studying and avoiding the history teacher. He did catch me long enough to get me to help teach some junior high school kids next week. They are going to be working in the library, and he asked me to drop by and speak with them for a while. No problem!
I also spent some time with Yamamoto sensei today talking about our open high school lesson next week. It will be an introductory lesson aimed at the junior high school students that are interested in going to our school. Apparently there aren’t very many. We are going to do a lesson on Thanksgiving, and so we talked about some of the details. Mr. Yamamoto has quite an adventurous spirit – we may actually dress up like Pilgrims and Indians to do part of the lesson. I’m not sure if he’s serious, actually. I’m guessing that I’ll be the Pilgrim.
After school the ESS club was a no-show, so I started working on lesson plans. At 4:30 one of my students showed up, so I went with her to the classroom and we continued working on the ESS bulletin board. After a while another student showed up, with two boys in tow. She was enjoying the attention she was getting from them, and she kept them busy slaving away. They are just fools for her English lovin’.
Iku-chan, probably the most hard-working new ESS student, brought in some scones that she had baked. She gave me one wrapped beautifully with a note in English that said, and I quote, “Dear Bryan: Please, Bryan eats this scone to heat on microwave oven, and spread butter or margarine, honey or jam. I hope that Bryan had better cold. See you…”
It was very sweet, and I had the scone for dessert later on – delicious. The girl can cook! I followed her advice and had it with a bit of butter and some strawberry jam. Excellent.
This evening I went over to Ito Yokado to look for shirts, but they didn’t have any with my collar size. I’m going to have to expand my search radius a little bit. I did buy some goodies at the grocery store, so I’ll be eating healthy for a couple more days.
Antoine called and I chatted with him about election results. He’s taking things pretty hard. I’m going to get to see him on Sunday with his girlfriend, so that will be fun. Hopefully we’ve gotten all the politics out of the way and we can talk about fun stuff when we meet up.
I’m off to bed – tomorrow is Friday and I can gear up for the weekend.
