I went into work today sleepy, but not sore – despite all the heavy lifting yesterday. My students were seriously sleepy today – hard to believe that they had three days off. Maybe they were harvesting rice, too.
I learned that my first year students have no idea who Britney Spears or Brad Pitt is. There is hope for our youth. They did know who the prime minister of Japan was, and they did know who Tom Cruise was. We’re doing a class on the third person, and so I introduced a bunch of people that I was sure everyone would know – and I was surprised at the result. It was an interesting experiment, though.
I had a scary moment when I showed up for my third period class with Harada sensei. She looked at me like I was crazy and told me that I was in the wrong classroom. I though I was in the right place, but she produced a schedule that showed me somewhere else. There was a moment of panic before I realized that she had an old version of the schedule. I ran upstairs and got the updated schedule and showed her, and so she had to put together a class right on the spot. She was a little embarrassed, but the students never cottoned on to the fact that we were improvising like crazy.
It’s evening now and I’m back home cooking some eggplant parmesan in the oven. Kuniko is due to arrive in the next thirty minutes, and I’ve got nothing planned this evening but a lot of ironing. I’m starting to convert from warm weather clothes to cool/cold weather clothes. It’s right at the turning point of the season – and the wardrobes are going to have to change.
