Day 161 23/05/12 足利第三中学校
23日05月12年(水)栃木足利三中、最高23最低12〈今14、雲)
It’s warm again today~~ Yesterday felt like 2 weeks or so after winter cho.
SO the studying continues…i, so tired, mental and of course it affects everything. There are so many questions i want answered, but all the free time i get is used for studying. Then at work, the pc is mad slow so i don’t wanna use it (i study anyway or update My Travels in evernote. It’s been way overdue and there is a lot to write). Time is moving by really fast….already its the end of may and i feel like i have so much more to learn..
I’m using a level 2 grammar book, and learning kanji from elementary level upwards. Not just Joyo kanji, all the kanji that a native japanese would learn, after all i wanna become fluent.
This morning i realize that since monday, parents have been at the gates, watching the students come to school. I’m not sure why, but i think they need to do something with themselves lol dem so traditional; man a go work and woman a stay home. That’s why when man cheat pon dem and let dem, dem get juk n cya of ntn fi demself.
Oh yea, yesterday was the opening os sky tree, 680M high i think. It’s all the fad to go now, but i don’t know if i wanna. I mean i wanna, but its gonna be so crowdy now, and then its so high…
Day 159 21/05/12 足利第三中学校
21日05月12年(月)栃木足利三中、最高20最低13〈今16、雲)
I’m soooooo tired!
Yesterday i didn’t get to study…tired and bunny was here. I really should practice speaking with him more in japanese though. Sooner or later, i won’t be able to avoid it at all :)
Last saturday we went to the One Love Festival in Tokyo together, where he could meet maiko and uemura sensei. I was so happy to see them again! Especially sensei. She hasn’t changed at all lol still joking around and everything, It was really good to have been able to meet her here in her home country. The food and the atmosphere was great. It felt jamaican, but japanese, simply because it was organized lol
Now that the weekend is over, its time to get back to my studies 100%, no, 110%. The last few weekends have been busy for me, but for the next 2-3 weeks, i’ll have nothing to do but study.Oh, and except for yamato’s bday. Wah mi mus do fi him? lol
Oh! This morning there was a solar eclipse, the annular solar eclipse. The sun eclipsing at 7am, surely threw me off, cuz my alarm was going off, but outside so dark, so i wanted to sleep some more -_- I didn’t have a good cam, nor protection so i didn’t really see anything. After arriving at school, i realized that a lot of the kids weren’t here yet. The principal changed the schedule cuz she thought it’d be dark lol
I’m so beat! Dunno how i gonna manage through the day. B schedule, but still i finish at 4:45pm…mash up!
So as i was writing this, ishihara came by our section saying something about how one of her students are absent, and she doesn’t know what to write on the board because his parents didn’t call to say anything. She then calls up the parents to find out whats up. The student apparently got the time confused, so he hadn’t left home as yet. Wtf? crazy. I wonder if elementary and high school are the same…?
Day 157 17/05/12 足利第三中学校
17日05月12年(木)栃木足利三中、最高24最低13〈今13、雲)
Late again. I’m mad tired and when i sleep, even though i get about 6 hours, it feels like only 20 mins. I still wake up on time and everything, but jan kno, mi haffi early for a good while afta dis lol
I’ve started to do a few push ups and about 100 sit ups in the morning before eating breakfast, so in this way i get a little exercise. Eventually it’ll increase, but thats when i get holidays or after m exams in july.
Today i’m really not into anything at work today. I’m definitely not feeling well at all. At this point, theres nothing i can do but go to the hospital cho. The amount of times i been to the hospital since i been in japan lol, its more than i ever been in my life back in the west. Unbelievable.
So, i realize that its the 1st and 3rd graders who seem to be my stimuli these days. They seem to know just how to cheer me up, even when i’m feeling ever so shitty lol Especially the first graders. These first graders are so enthused about english and that makes me happy really. They don’t hesitate, they keep trying even if they’re wrong, and they’re excited and they show me that through the tone and intensity of their voices, the way they greet me and respond to me in class, simply brightens my day :) and today, they did just that.
また遅れちゃった。ちょう疲れているよ、６時間寝たのに、２０分みたいだけどw。ちゃんと起きられてるけど、今から毎日早くだねw。
毎朝、少し運動しを始めた。朝ご飯を食べる前に、少し腕立て伏せや１００回腹筋運動をしてます。だから、ちょっとだけ運動できるね。やがて、ますますする予定だけど、今は、日本語体力試験についてだけをしたくて。７月試験の後とか休みの日、もちろんできるね。
今日全然何もしたくないよ、気持ち悪いから。当分、ただ病院に行かなきゃ。さ、日本に来て、何回も病院に行ったんだよ、もういいよ。来院の頻度は、西部に住んでだとき、もう進んじゃったよ。信じられないね。
それから、１年生と３年生が私のしげきだと気づいた。気持ち悪くて、気分も悪くて、いつも元気出させると思う、特に１年生。１年生は息巻いていると思うよ、英語のこと。それが私に嬉しくさせるよ。ほとんどいつもw、間違えたのに、まだ当ててますよ。いつも、生徒たちがわくわくしてるし、大声とか挨拶など、そんな感じが感動できるよ。明るい生徒たちだよ。だから、すぐに私も同じ感じが来て、今日も、このように生徒たちをできてくれた。
Day 160 22/05/12 足利第三中学校
22日05月12年(火)栃木足利三中、最高17最低13〈今15、雲)
All of a sudden the teachers room became mad quiet. It’s empty..is there a meeting? lol
Whew! I guess not! For a good 2 mins it was silent, no one was here, and as soon as i thought that thought, they came lol
On a good note, i was early today lol I’ve been late since last week maybe 3 times already. Thats way too much -_-
I am glad however, that the speech preparations are over, so now i can use my recess for studying once more. This time around, the speech was boring, and so tedious. So unappealing. I felt like i was wasting my time, especially since there were so many students, and they came as they pleased, so i always had to start over cho.
In any case, i’m getting more and more anxious these days, because i feel as if i don’t have enough time to prepare for the exams. The days suddenly started to go by faster. I mean they were moving fast before, but now it seems faster. 33 days remaining…I wanna give myself about a week to review and breathe a bit, and that week i want to be the week before the exam. As of june, i intend to do a lot of practice exams, maybe about 20. Only 30 days in june.
Day 158 18/05/12 足利第三中学校
18日05月12年(金)栃木足利三中、最高21最低9〈今14、雲)
Yesterday i was uncomfortable, disoriented and i really couldn’t think straight with the amount of pain i was feeling. I ended up in the hospital after work, and finally got the problem sorted out, so i’m fine now, and hopefully it won’t reoccur. I was advised not to go to badminton, because my body needs whatever energy it can muster to heal.
That makes this week the 3rd, so i don’t wanna miss next week, after all i don’t have so much time left here in ashikaga…i can’t believe i’m actually gonna move!
Of course, i continued with my studies, even though i had my mind so set on badminton :(
So today the students have a sports tournament, so that means no class! lol so i gotta study, and i get to go home early today :)
When they have these competitions, usually each club goes to another school who’s hosting that particular sport. At sanchu, they usually have the volleyball section, so of course that was being done today.
First the boys played and they won! It was my first time watching the boys play, because there are only 2 male teams in ashikaga, with about 12 female teams, so the girls’ is not so interesting to me lol. Oh! and my boys were playing! It was so much different from the females’. They don’t shout and scream every sec lol and i can hear what they’re saying so clearly; え～あそぶ！let’s go! lol just like that. My boys, shotaro, ryuji, nakami, kimura, oohirakun, shiraishi, iwameji…yea, my 3rd graders :)
Oh, yesterday i received a piece of paper to write some message to the PTA and the kids for some school magazine, and this is what i wrote, without writing the english and translating :)
昨日、ちょっと目が眩んだ、痛みが強くて。仕事の後、病院に行って、今全然痛くない、親切があってから抗生物質をもらった。再発の可能性は低いと思うって、医者が。バドミントンに行ってはなくて、友人に勧めらせた、体を休んで、早く治るのため。今週は３回行かないよ、来週、絶対に行く、時間がないから、足利で。もうすぐだよ、引っ越しする。もちろん、勉強を続けていた、バドミントンのことを頭がいっぱいなのにw。
今日は、生徒たちはスポーツの試合があって、授業がない！！でも、勉強しなければね、または、早く帰る～～
試合があると、それぞれのクラブは分ける、別な学校の中で。三中で、バレブ分が行われる。
まず、男子がバレブの試合をして、勝った！初めて男子の試合を見たから２つのチームがある、足利で、１２つ女子のチームがあるし、ちょっと興味がないんだw、うるさいから。男子の試合は本当に違うよ、彼らは、リラクスして、強くて、言ってる言葉もはっきり聞こえたし、例えば「え～遊ぶ！Let’s go!」そのままでw。１番好きな男子だけど、上原くん、りゅうじ、中水くん、木村くん、大平くん、白石くん、岩目地くん。。。３年生です！
あ！昨日なんか、１枚紙をもらって、PTAと生徒たちにメッセージを書かないといけなくて、学校の雑誌のため「三中タイムズ」という。最初は英語で書かないでから訳した＾＾：
メッセージ
１年間、とっても楽しかったです！
生徒たちに教えただけでなく、みんなが、私にもたくさんで大切なこともお互いに教えてくれたんです。みんなに慣れている最中に、１学期もう終わってしまいました。
これからも、頑張ってください！
Day 156 16/05/12 足利第三中学校
16日05月12年(水)栃木足利三中、最高25最低13〈今18、晴れ)
Today is such as nice day! high of 25?! Sunny?! Yup!
Those kids re gonna burn up outside doing their sports exams lolol and that means no class for me~ So, until lunch, i’ll be studying all day. Hopefully they don’t bother me to do anything, and i’d hope that they all stay inside so that i could study peacefully and not have anyone walking by my desk and watching me.
Its become a habit now, this studying thing. I’m getting 6 hours or less of sleep every night nowadays, and even when i feel tired at work, when i get home, i just relax a bit, eat, then get straight into studying, So everyday i can get at least 4 hours of knowledge lol I have to, cuz theres way too much info that i need to know.
After first period, i realized that i really had no free time at all -_- no time to study, but i did have a blast checking out the students physical abilities. The students rotated doing several activities that checked different aspects of course. I, along with ishihara and tezuka, were checking how flexible the students were, using a contraption that basically measured how far to their toes they could touch. I asked the name of it, but even my japanese dictionary couldn’t provide a definition, just 5 kanji lol 長座体前屈 -> long, stay(sit), body, in front, bend lol i’m just like wtf is this? lol i could understand from seeing the kanji, but how do i describe the name for this in english? Certainly not with using all those 5 words lol
I was fortunate enough to examine only the boys :) all grades, but not all classes. Thereafter, only the second grade girls were left, but were already being examined by the other 2 teachers. So during that time, i decided to try it out myself, and i could stretch to 50cm lol even though i haven’t stretched or done any of this stuff in such a long time. The girls from 2-1 noticed and came over and asked me to do it again. They were all surprised and excited, then started to ask me all kinds of questions. First starting with questions from beta beta station, then it eventually went into singing songs, dancing, and finally bf >-< it was really good, because i could bond with the girls, and now their confidence has increased! They not only try conversing with me, but they try in english first, and they got so excited, they started with japanese as well, trying to get to know me as a person, and not just know that i’m their english teacher :) That was a good experience, and now i’m sure their participation in class will also improve.
今日はいい天気ですね～最高は２５？！晴れ？！よかった～
生徒たちは可愛いそうだな（笑）外で体育のテストがあるから。だから、授業がない～なし！（笑）暇があるので、１日中日本語の勉強をする予定です！勉強することが折らなくてよかったね。みんなが外に行ってほしい（笑）静かに勉強でキルのために。いれば、机の側に歩きながら、私に見えるから。そんなことは私にイライラにならせるよ。
とにかく、習慣に慣れたそうだよ（笑）勉強が。毎日、４時間以上勉強してみようよ。本当に頑張るけど、勉強して以来、毎日、６時間以下しか寝れなかった。仕事で疲れてるのに、かえった後、少しだけど、リラクスしたり、夕食食べたり、友達と話したりしてます。その後、また勉強して戻ってくる。しないといけないけど、試験だけでなく、日本語は、ただ、言語だから。
１時間目の後、暇がないんだと気づいたけど、生徒たちの健康神殿は超面白くて、楽しかった！