Since I wasn't in the right state of mind yesterday...I'd thought I would post the stuff that I was plannin' to.
So yesterday at school was really fun. It was a pretty chillin' day and we had a nice ceremony in which the students received awards for the endeavors. Then we were able to sit down with all the 4 students who are in the english speech contest. So I've been pretty busy lately with the material. For the 7th graders, I'm writing up the whole converstation that they are going to do. The 8th grader and 9th grader are doing, Daruma-chan to Tengu-chan and A Mother's Lullaby, repectively. I will post the story to A Mother's Lullaby as a separate post.
For lunch, all the faculty got together and had this grubbin' sushi lunch. All the new teachers gave a little speech. Even I had to speak. However...I used English because I wanted to make sure they understood what I had to say...so Takahashi sensei translated.
Another funny thing yesterday is how Mitchell, (aka Yamazaki Micheru) the music teacher, is such a funny guy. He isn't the nicest of teachers and speaks very bluntly at the orchestra. Since the orchestra finished a little early, as the kids were goin' home. From the teacher's balcony, he yells at some of the girls to wait. I thought he had to tell them something. So as he's walkin' towards them, he has his bag which he extends to Chika. She then bows her head and he puts his bag over around her neck. He has her carry it all the way to the train station for him. He yells to us that he's comfortable now.
Before dinner, we had some time to kill, so Takahashi sensei took me to go play pachinko. Since I've never really played pachinko, it was something I wanted to try out despite all the bad things that I've heard about it. So as we sat down to play and put in our money Takahashi sensei's machine seemed like it wasn't working. I started to play while Takahashi sensei called an attendant over. What happened was Takahashi sensei put $5 into my machine and I put $5 into the lady's machine next to me!!! Anyways...pachinko is really stupid. I mean REALLY stupid. I don't see how people are addicted to it. But I guess if this and bettting on races is the only form of gambling...you take whatever you can get.
Not sure if they have this back home, but when you drink and are unable to drive (the penalty for DUI is somewhere around the vicinity of $5,000) you can call this service to drive you and your car home. It's also a little bit cheaper than a taxi. So that's how Takahashi sensei and I got back home.
Well...I'm gonna wrap this up. Got some other stuff to do.
Kaz out...
So yesterday at school was really fun. It was a pretty chillin' day and we had a nice ceremony in which the students received awards for the endeavors. Then we were able to sit down with all the 4 students who are in the english speech contest. So I've been pretty busy lately with the material. For the 7th graders, I'm writing up the whole converstation that they are going to do. The 8th grader and 9th grader are doing, Daruma-chan to Tengu-chan and A Mother's Lullaby, repectively. I will post the story to A Mother's Lullaby as a separate post.
For lunch, all the faculty got together and had this grubbin' sushi lunch. All the new teachers gave a little speech. Even I had to speak. However...I used English because I wanted to make sure they understood what I had to say...so Takahashi sensei translated.
Another funny thing yesterday is how Mitchell, (aka Yamazaki Micheru) the music teacher, is such a funny guy. He isn't the nicest of teachers and speaks very bluntly at the orchestra. Since the orchestra finished a little early, as the kids were goin' home. From the teacher's balcony, he yells at some of the girls to wait. I thought he had to tell them something. So as he's walkin' towards them, he has his bag which he extends to Chika. She then bows her head and he puts his bag over around her neck. He has her carry it all the way to the train station for him. He yells to us that he's comfortable now.
Before dinner, we had some time to kill, so Takahashi sensei took me to go play pachinko. Since I've never really played pachinko, it was something I wanted to try out despite all the bad things that I've heard about it. So as we sat down to play and put in our money Takahashi sensei's machine seemed like it wasn't working. I started to play while Takahashi sensei called an attendant over. What happened was Takahashi sensei put $5 into my machine and I put $5 into the lady's machine next to me!!! Anyways...pachinko is really stupid. I mean REALLY stupid. I don't see how people are addicted to it. But I guess if this and bettting on races is the only form of gambling...you take whatever you can get.
Not sure if they have this back home, but when you drink and are unable to drive (the penalty for DUI is somewhere around the vicinity of $5,000) you can call this service to drive you and your car home. It's also a little bit cheaper than a taxi. So that's how Takahashi sensei and I got back home.
Well...I'm gonna wrap this up. Got some other stuff to do.
Kaz out...
This entry was posted by kaz, on
土曜日, 7月 19, 2003.
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