It's like the first day of school all over again, aww. And it kind of is since well, I'm teaching. Thankfully Benda gave me the morning off to recover from my 14 hour jet lag and I will say the sun rises REALLY early here it feels like, aiiie... But after practicing Japanese in my room, Patricia (my replacee) came to pick me up earlier than I was informed because she wanted to pick up some things for the students on her last Thursday. I got a nice little tour as we drove and then TADA my mall! I can see a lot of happy memories will be spent there. :)
For the first class I was a little nervous since this was it--feet in the water! There are 3 children, their 2 mothers and 4 siblings who sit in the room while we teach. They are very energetic and adorable to boot. Patricia has worked with them so long they can actually read English even though they are 6-7ish, one maybe younger. YAY! HOW FUN!
Then we had to speed off to a company called UMGCo. It was pretty industrial on site and the employees are required to take 20 English lessons, so they are small classes and they eventually stop coming. There was 4 today and will be 3 next time. They are pretty funny 25-29 year old gentlemen (Japanese people look so young, all of them, I swear) and because they are advanced, it's a nice break from ABC sing a longs (but hey, who doesn't like sillyness?) Ken is very good and jokes that Penelope Cruz is his girlfriend. That should be fun as well.
The last class (next week there are two more afterwards, woah!) is two brothers 8 and 10 who are very good since they lived abroad a few years. One is spunky while the other is serious and the rules are no farting and burping, which I like as well. :)
Hopefully I won't screw up directions next Thursday while I drive by myself but the car I inherit is very nice compared to the others and awesome compared to my '91 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme 88. May he rest in peace. I also glimpsed my apartment as we drove by Patricia pointed it out and also compared to the dorm rooms I've inhabited for the past 3 years a suiteeeee. Can't wait to move my whopping two bags into it (UHM, BALCONY!!).
However this was a 'half day' and tomorrow will be an overly full day since I observe classes with other teaches that I won't be teaching later anyway. But all experience is good anyway and it should be fun to meet the rest of them, maybe I'll even get to watch a dance class (they teach jazz and hip hop here too!!! CRAZY!). May I say this is ten times cooler than Teach for America, sorry guys, thanks for making me look elsewhere!!!
Casey
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