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Tuesday, September 09, 2003
me from CA-NA-DA...
so today i went to shikitsu elementary, which meant i have visited all of my schools. the developments in my newly minted work life have been super interesting... first off, i would like to say that yes, i have become an air con junkie. never has air con been more desired, lusted after than this past week when it BROKE on me... sorry piece of machinery!!! i have been forced to breathe gulpfuls of musty, muggy, stale HOT air in my apartment, with the insufficient help of a small fan. so everytime i enter the teacher`s room/principal`s office, it is SUZUSHIIIIIIIIIIII times a billion. i can`t get enough of air conditioning... and a/c is probably one of the main reasons for global warming ( i think)... nevertheless, i am addicted! enough of this sweating when i`m sleeping garbage! fix my air con!!
rage rage
=?
anyways, so i thought that life at nankominami would be less than peachy after a day of sitting at my desk, not talking to anyone, falling asleep for a few seconds sporadically b/c of boredom (and being groggy after lunch), and having kimoto sensei pull frequent houdini acts on me... but then there was the softball/enkai yesterday. softball was pretty fun but i pulled a diva move and made angry when i couldn`t hit the ball in practice... that was a big HELLO??!! to let me know i was way too arrogant about my (hah) skills... and i was saved from further embarrassment when i didn`t have to play (phew). the enkai was pretty fun, i still don`t know everyone`s name, but at least i chilled with the teachers, and they are all pretty cool! the funny thing is that when we were ordering drinks, i was the 3rd person to order, so i immediately thought okay, alcohol since the 2 before me ordered beer straightaway, so i ordered some lychee/oj cocktail thing, but then the other teachers at my table ordered...CALPIS SODA AND OOLOONGCHA....
what tha haycke??!!!
i felt silly, esp when i sat at the other table and found some teachers drinking ORANGE JUICE... STRAIGHT....
either one of two things happened:
a) it was a Monday night, so granted tuesday am hangovers are not encouraged
b) reports of drunken japanese enkais have been highly exaggerated
the jury is still out on these two options...
so today tuesday, i went to shikitsu, and i was really looking forward to it. it was SO awesome!!! eeeeeehhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! i love that school... first off the principal is super nice. he should run disneyland. or at least tokyo disneyland. i was introduced to everyone, including the cafeteria cooks, janitorial assistants and the school nurse. there are only 100 kids in the whole school, so i am teaching all of the students in combined classes. the teachers seem really nice, just a bit weak on the whole english thing. it is an interesting situation. since i already love the school to bits, i am totally willing to teach by myself, making lesson plans and everything, basically reignite my Masters of English skills (wha..? lesson plans???), even though ALTs have been told explicitly that we don`t teach by ourselves. maybe i will talk to mr okada about it... just to let him know i guess. sigh. so anyways, after lunch, i wandered outside and played with the 1/2 graders... they are so genki, so awesome. in my perfect world, i would be hired at shikitsu as their full time english teacher..!..! God is so good! woooooooo hoooooooooooooooo!! and a sort of funny thing happened, when i was leaving some of the 1st grade boyos saw me and one of them followed me out of the school, with his little yellow hat and black bag on and everything. i was freaking out because i didn`t want him to be abducted or anything.. i must have looked mighty weird on the video phone (yes they have a video phone thingy to ID people at the front gate... kakkoiiiiii)
do i want to be an ECE teacher?????????????????????????????? dousuru...
and i found a camera today, that i shall get tomorrow!
and i bought new mascara!
and MOSQUITO SPRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my legs have been a popular feeding ground for the little buggers... but i missed the run today... maybe i will run with jolene on thursday. hah, i saw some huge dude with a judo 2003 shirt stuck to him like a second skin... i was tempted to take a picture of him and run away and send it to seiji. but i didn`t since that would be super nerdy. oh! kosei inoue shaved his head! hmmmmmmmmmmm =)
shoot, nypd blue is on soon, gotta get home!! hoi hooooiiiii!
so today i went to shikitsu elementary, which meant i have visited all of my schools. the developments in my newly minted work life have been super interesting... first off, i would like to say that yes, i have become an air con junkie. never has air con been more desired, lusted after than this past week when it BROKE on me... sorry piece of machinery!!! i have been forced to breathe gulpfuls of musty, muggy, stale HOT air in my apartment, with the insufficient help of a small fan. so everytime i enter the teacher`s room/principal`s office, it is SUZUSHIIIIIIIIIIII times a billion. i can`t get enough of air conditioning... and a/c is probably one of the main reasons for global warming ( i think)... nevertheless, i am addicted! enough of this sweating when i`m sleeping garbage! fix my air con!!
rage rage
=?
anyways, so i thought that life at nankominami would be less than peachy after a day of sitting at my desk, not talking to anyone, falling asleep for a few seconds sporadically b/c of boredom (and being groggy after lunch), and having kimoto sensei pull frequent houdini acts on me... but then there was the softball/enkai yesterday. softball was pretty fun but i pulled a diva move and made angry when i couldn`t hit the ball in practice... that was a big HELLO??!! to let me know i was way too arrogant about my (hah) skills... and i was saved from further embarrassment when i didn`t have to play (phew). the enkai was pretty fun, i still don`t know everyone`s name, but at least i chilled with the teachers, and they are all pretty cool! the funny thing is that when we were ordering drinks, i was the 3rd person to order, so i immediately thought okay, alcohol since the 2 before me ordered beer straightaway, so i ordered some lychee/oj cocktail thing, but then the other teachers at my table ordered...CALPIS SODA AND OOLOONGCHA....
what tha haycke??!!!
i felt silly, esp when i sat at the other table and found some teachers drinking ORANGE JUICE... STRAIGHT....
either one of two things happened:
a) it was a Monday night, so granted tuesday am hangovers are not encouraged
b) reports of drunken japanese enkais have been highly exaggerated
the jury is still out on these two options...
so today tuesday, i went to shikitsu, and i was really looking forward to it. it was SO awesome!!! eeeeeehhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! i love that school... first off the principal is super nice. he should run disneyland. or at least tokyo disneyland. i was introduced to everyone, including the cafeteria cooks, janitorial assistants and the school nurse. there are only 100 kids in the whole school, so i am teaching all of the students in combined classes. the teachers seem really nice, just a bit weak on the whole english thing. it is an interesting situation. since i already love the school to bits, i am totally willing to teach by myself, making lesson plans and everything, basically reignite my Masters of English skills (wha..? lesson plans???), even though ALTs have been told explicitly that we don`t teach by ourselves. maybe i will talk to mr okada about it... just to let him know i guess. sigh. so anyways, after lunch, i wandered outside and played with the 1/2 graders... they are so genki, so awesome. in my perfect world, i would be hired at shikitsu as their full time english teacher..!..! God is so good! woooooooo hoooooooooooooooo!! and a sort of funny thing happened, when i was leaving some of the 1st grade boyos saw me and one of them followed me out of the school, with his little yellow hat and black bag on and everything. i was freaking out because i didn`t want him to be abducted or anything.. i must have looked mighty weird on the video phone (yes they have a video phone thingy to ID people at the front gate... kakkoiiiiii)
do i want to be an ECE teacher?????????????????????????????? dousuru...
and i found a camera today, that i shall get tomorrow!
and i bought new mascara!
and MOSQUITO SPRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my legs have been a popular feeding ground for the little buggers... but i missed the run today... maybe i will run with jolene on thursday. hah, i saw some huge dude with a judo 2003 shirt stuck to him like a second skin... i was tempted to take a picture of him and run away and send it to seiji. but i didn`t since that would be super nerdy. oh! kosei inoue shaved his head! hmmmmmmmmmmm =)
shoot, nypd blue is on soon, gotta get home!! hoi hooooiiiii!
// posted by naomi @ 8:22 a.m. 
