Golden Week holidays this year are pretty strange. Last year we had a scheduling quirk that gave us a ten day holiday, but this year another quirk just gives us six days. Furthermore, the six days are split over two weeks, so we get two days off this week, the weekend, and then the first two days off of next week.
Kinda weird.
My students (and I) are getting excited about the holidays, and today will be the last work day for a while. Unfortunately my schedule is chock full of classes, and it will be a very busy day for me.
This morning I will teach my first class with the new production employees. These are workers that joined the company in April, and will be factory workers mainly here in Japan, but occasionally they’ll ship off to other countries to support production in overseas plants in China, Singapore, the USA, Honk Kong, and possibly India. So somewhere along the line, they may need to be able to at least be familiar with using English.
These classes are always fun to teach, and since I have them only once a month they are something I look forward to. It’ll also be the first time for me to teach with my new supervisor (?) Ayumi, who was my student last term. I hope she doesn’t take out her English frustrations on me today in class…
