Technically day 6 but today 4...
I am feeling tired and need some sort of liquid refreshment...
Well today was a new day of teaching. It was first day with students in a class at the school where I had mistaken last week Thursday to be the first day. That sounds really confusing but I know what I'm talking about.
School was pretty good for me. I haven't done any real teaching since all the beginning class are self-introductions. Of'course I needed to "change" a few deatils since my life isn't that intersting is it... For instance I downloaded a pic of a Kawasaki Ninja and told everyone that it was my bike. I am quite aware that I never did and nor will I ever own (if my mom has something to say) a bike but because I know how to ride a bike I assumed if I were to buy a bike it would be a mid 90's Kawasaki Ninja. I feel its a bike that I can probably handle. And the chance of them actually finding out that I don't have a bike would be very slim, which could be easily covered up with another lie.
I also said I don't know how to do the hula. Another stereotype that I need to fight through with a machette. You would expect that as soon as someone knows you're from Hawaii its safe to say that the first few questions have to have one containing something about your hula ability. Usually people put their hands up and start waving them around the most stereotypical hula move. (you all know what I am talking about.) I simply just told them that in Hawaii there are two types of hula dances the male and the female. The one that eeryone mimics is the girl one and since I am not a girl I can't do it. Then I just say that I don't know the male ones either. This usually gives the hint that one cannot learn female hula if you are a a male and no one knows of male hula so the subject is automatically dropped.
But other than that it has been awesome at school.
This past weekend was pretty fun. On Saturday Krystal and I slept in due to the mild hangover we were having after a night of The Official Kyoto City JET Welcome party, Karaoke with our bosses, and a few more hours of dancing. I believe I passed out early Saturday morning and woke up soemtime after 1:30. Then we spent the day just watching some movies and I would say it was a very productive day.
On Sunday we went to COSTCO! Our savior.. There were could get what small piece of home it would give us. Can foods by Campbell, SPAM, olive oil, TP, and the usually Costco hot daog and pizza. It was so good to see items that I recognized like Kirkl.land. The whole day was devoted to Costco. We left Kyoto City around 11 and arrived in Amagasaki. It was about a 30 minute train ride.Whioch is not far at all. Shopping took a good 3 hours and we were on the way back home . We took our suitcases to carry the "luggage" we bought at Costco. Everyone's suitcase was filled with things like peanut butter, jam, deordorant, gum, fresh fruit (the furits here are crazy expensive and I dont know why Japanese people don't have scurrvy) and many more things that make our stay in Kyoto not so Japan-esque.
So here I am now after teaching 4 lessons today, out of breathe, sweaty, (humidity not helping at all), and tired. At least the classes I had today were all decent and no class gave me a bad impression. Sigh... Four more days to go...
Break it DOWN!!!
Well today was a new day of teaching. It was first day with students in a class at the school where I had mistaken last week Thursday to be the first day. That sounds really confusing but I know what I'm talking about.
School was pretty good for me. I haven't done any real teaching since all the beginning class are self-introductions. Of'course I needed to "change" a few deatils since my life isn't that intersting is it... For instance I downloaded a pic of a Kawasaki Ninja and told everyone that it was my bike. I am quite aware that I never did and nor will I ever own (if my mom has something to say) a bike but because I know how to ride a bike I assumed if I were to buy a bike it would be a mid 90's Kawasaki Ninja. I feel its a bike that I can probably handle. And the chance of them actually finding out that I don't have a bike would be very slim, which could be easily covered up with another lie.
I also said I don't know how to do the hula. Another stereotype that I need to fight through with a machette. You would expect that as soon as someone knows you're from Hawaii its safe to say that the first few questions have to have one containing something about your hula ability. Usually people put their hands up and start waving them around the most stereotypical hula move. (you all know what I am talking about.) I simply just told them that in Hawaii there are two types of hula dances the male and the female. The one that eeryone mimics is the girl one and since I am not a girl I can't do it. Then I just say that I don't know the male ones either. This usually gives the hint that one cannot learn female hula if you are a a male and no one knows of male hula so the subject is automatically dropped.
But other than that it has been awesome at school.
This past weekend was pretty fun. On Saturday Krystal and I slept in due to the mild hangover we were having after a night of The Official Kyoto City JET Welcome party, Karaoke with our bosses, and a few more hours of dancing. I believe I passed out early Saturday morning and woke up soemtime after 1:30. Then we spent the day just watching some movies and I would say it was a very productive day.
On Sunday we went to COSTCO! Our savior.. There were could get what small piece of home it would give us. Can foods by Campbell, SPAM, olive oil, TP, and the usually Costco hot daog and pizza. It was so good to see items that I recognized like Kirkl.land. The whole day was devoted to Costco. We left Kyoto City around 11 and arrived in Amagasaki. It was about a 30 minute train ride.Whioch is not far at all. Shopping took a good 3 hours and we were on the way back home . We took our suitcases to carry the "luggage" we bought at Costco. Everyone's suitcase was filled with things like peanut butter, jam, deordorant, gum, fresh fruit (the furits here are crazy expensive and I dont know why Japanese people don't have scurrvy) and many more things that make our stay in Kyoto not so Japan-esque.
So here I am now after teaching 4 lessons today, out of breathe, sweaty, (humidity not helping at all), and tired. At least the classes I had today were all decent and no class gave me a bad impression. Sigh... Four more days to go...
Break it DOWN!!!
posted by Chris at 7:37 PM
1 Comments:
it's weird to hear that japan has a costco. costco seems too midwestern, white trash like. well, i'm exaggerating. hawaii has a costco, after all...
do the people in japan wear funny uniforms at makudonarudo too?
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