Monday at work I adjusted my expectations of how my classes were going to flow, and it made a big difference. The students also had a better attitude about their classes today. What was happening was the payoff from last week when I sat some students down and asked them to cool it a little bit and let everyone study.<\/p>\n
One of the best students today was Shouta. He is normally kind of noisy, but today he really gave it a good effort and I was proud of him. He also reigned in some of the other noisy students and kept the class under control. <\/p>\n
In the evening I had a private lesson with Yuka at her house. It was my first time walking there on my own, but it I did it OK and only made one brief wrong turn. We spent an hour or so talking about some tests that she had and some more English tests that are coming up. After the lesson Yuka’s mom drove me to the station, so it didn’t take too long for me to get back home.<\/p>\n
Kuniko and I met at the station around 9 p.m., and since Kuniko had to do some shopping for a new parasol, we caught dinner out and then shopped and came home. One really cool ad I found inside the supermarket at Saty was a promotion for a “California Festival”. What was featured on the artwork to instantly give people the idea of California? Vineyards? Beaches? Fresh fruits and vegetables? Sunny weather? Nope… Arnold Schwarzeneggar’s smiling mug. I’ll try to take some snapshots later on before they take it down.<\/p>\n
As a product of all this running around we were both pretty tired out, so we went to bed pretty soon after getting home. Maybe I’ll have some more time to rest up tomorrow morning….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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