I’ll make a note of it here – I think Matsubara sensei is pregnant. She already has a one year old daughter and she’s always talking about her. After the summer vacation I’ve noticed the slightest bulge under her dress and her wardrobe has slightly changed. However, as a comedian once said, you never ask a woman if she is pregnant, not unless you can actually see the baby coming out. So I’ll keep it quiet and silently observe her midsection. That sounded creepy.
Due to a quirky schedule I got to teach one of my first year classes today. My class was their first class after four periods of exams, so it was the first chance they could have a normal class after a month and a half of vacation. I had various strategies to take care of some of the energies that might be running loose, but as it turned out I was teaching with Yamamoto sensei, who is really strict with them.
My new lesson is about directions, and it went really well. Most of the students have had a lesson on directions in junior high school. They did pretty good, and everyone had a good time, I think. I really enjoyed being in front of students again. I was feeling nervous after almost two months without teaching, and I was worried how things would go. Of course they went fine, it’s just I’m a little rusty getting back into the saddle.
Mr. Yamamoto spent two minutes telling the students in Japanese that I was in the staff room every day during summer studying Japanese. He told them that if they spent the effort that I have been putting in they would know English completely by now. It was a little embarrassing, and my cover was completely blown. I’m still going to stick to English in the classroom, though.
I came back to the staffroom and enjoyed a great bento that Kuniko made up for me this morning. As usual people stopped by to admire my lunch, and ask me lots of questions about my diet.
I studied the rest of the day and now I’m back home rocking out and waiting for Kuniko to get back. I’m thinking of cooking up some kimchee fried rice tonight – not healthy, but cheap! Today while buying the groceries for dinner the clerk asked me all about it. She really likes asking me tons of questions when I’m checking out, and I’m sure the other patrons behind me hate me for taking up lots of time.
Last night Kuniko and I made up some Hawaiian Poke. Susan and Dave in Hawaii sent the seasoning packet to me a while back, and so I bought some raw tuna and some fried tofu and Kuniko and I mixed it up. It was really good – salty and spicy!
Oh, and one last thing – I’m blogging at school now. It’s just once every couple of weeks, and here’s the link. One of the English teachers, Yamamoto sensei, really is getting started with designing web pages and you can see what I mean. My eyes! My eyes! Still, I thought it was best to let him go for it and have fun.
