1 for Bad 2 for Good...
I’m at my third junior high school and feeling pretty good. The first graders here all come from the elementary school that I taught at last year. Walking into the class made me feel like a celebrity rather than a zoo exhibit. So far so good in regards to the school, nothing really crazy has happened. I think this school is much smaller than the other two I have been too. Just had al lesson with the second graders that went by much more smoothly than I had expected. For my introduction lessons, I have been using a different approach than what I did at elementary school. In elementary I just showed them a picture of something and kind of gave them a background antidote or something. But with the junior high kids I have been using a different method called “Gambling.”
It seems to be going over well since I everyone like s to gamble. I give them the jist of “me” first like “my age, my family, Hawaii, and etc”. Bur when I get into my favorites, that when I have them bet “fake money” on which one is to be correct. For example I ask them, “what is my favorite movie?” And then I show them a picture if Star Wars and Spiderman. Then they bet which is correct. I haven’t done a lesson yet that was a “miss”. I’m pretty proud of myself from stealing that idea from someone.
This past weekend was pretty good. Just being paid after a drought of “non-spending” makes one feel pretty good. Anyway on Friday we went to a surprise dinner thing for our friend The Miich. Michiyo is our P.A’s wife, which at times can be much cooler than our P.A. Anyway we went to this small restaurant with the hopes that nothing could go wrong ‘cause we were paid and because it’s a birthday party. Were we wrong…
The service there was pretty bad since the restaurant couldn’t support a 15-person party. They suggested to us that we get the set menu so that the cooks would have an easier time getting us all of our food but that turned out to be a disaster. It took about 3 and half hours for all the dishes to come out. And on top of that they didn’t finish 11 of the 15 courses because… they ran out of rice! Isn’t that absurd?! After 3 and half hours of no food and no beer (which they ran out of too) we decided that the importance wasn’t getting the rest of our food but getting the hell out of there and not paying for anything. The party started at about 8:30, we left the place around 11:45 foe the kebab place.
The kebab place, being a hole in the wall is our favorite place to go for a midnight snack and/or beer. William (P.A.) being guilty for recommending such a crappy place for a surprise party, treated everyone to drinks and a kebab. After filling our stomachs with good, fast food we headed over to the All-You-Can-Drink karaoke party! The karaoke was a good night seeming that I haven’t been to karaoke for a while. It was so good that we ended up staying out until 4!
Saturday was a lazy day seeming that we woke up at 1:30. We weren’t really sure if our fiend was going to come over for dinner but we decided to clean house nevertheless and waited for the important conformation call. The call came in around 5 and we had to scramble to out together a meal worthy of dinner guests. We had a really good temaki buffet with Akane, Morito, and Hiakru-kun. We met Akane at the volunteer camp we did in February and got to know her and her cute 5-year-old son. We first met her son at the most recent COSTCO trip and have been friends ever since. I actually that the night was going to be a night of adult conversations and issues but I had it totally opposite! They played video games with their son and even did some magic tricks for us. We showed them how to play Crazy Eights, which they were amazed to find out that anyone could play UNO with a deck of cards.
Then on Sunday we were told that they was a German food festival happening at the river so we just had to go. We had sauerkraut pasta, German potato salad, sausages, and beer. The beer wasn’t German but I didn’t hear too many people complaining. After another day by the river we decided to go home for some yakiniku. By the time everyone got to Kevin’s house we were all lazy so we decided to order pizza and play some video games. I don’t know of its because I7m getting old or what but I seem to really get into golf, XBOX Tiger Woods golf that it. We must have played until 1 in the morning, and on a school night! It was so dun and the most impressive thing about the game was that you could make a character to look almost exactly like you. In some cases it was really scary how close you can actually get it to look like you.
And then it was back to work. Well, I’m hardly gonna call this work since its gonna be a short week. On Thursday Krystal leaves for Korea and I leave for Taiwan. What’s in Taiwan? Tons of Chinese food, beaches, mopeds, and whatever 3 straight guys and a Gay dude can do in 7 days! See yah guys on the beach!
BREAKING IT DOWN!
It seems to be going over well since I everyone like s to gamble. I give them the jist of “me” first like “my age, my family, Hawaii, and etc”. Bur when I get into my favorites, that when I have them bet “fake money” on which one is to be correct. For example I ask them, “what is my favorite movie?” And then I show them a picture if Star Wars and Spiderman. Then they bet which is correct. I haven’t done a lesson yet that was a “miss”. I’m pretty proud of myself from stealing that idea from someone.
This past weekend was pretty good. Just being paid after a drought of “non-spending” makes one feel pretty good. Anyway on Friday we went to a surprise dinner thing for our friend The Miich. Michiyo is our P.A’s wife, which at times can be much cooler than our P.A. Anyway we went to this small restaurant with the hopes that nothing could go wrong ‘cause we were paid and because it’s a birthday party. Were we wrong…
The service there was pretty bad since the restaurant couldn’t support a 15-person party. They suggested to us that we get the set menu so that the cooks would have an easier time getting us all of our food but that turned out to be a disaster. It took about 3 and half hours for all the dishes to come out. And on top of that they didn’t finish 11 of the 15 courses because… they ran out of rice! Isn’t that absurd?! After 3 and half hours of no food and no beer (which they ran out of too) we decided that the importance wasn’t getting the rest of our food but getting the hell out of there and not paying for anything. The party started at about 8:30, we left the place around 11:45 foe the kebab place.
The kebab place, being a hole in the wall is our favorite place to go for a midnight snack and/or beer. William (P.A.) being guilty for recommending such a crappy place for a surprise party, treated everyone to drinks and a kebab. After filling our stomachs with good, fast food we headed over to the All-You-Can-Drink karaoke party! The karaoke was a good night seeming that I haven’t been to karaoke for a while. It was so good that we ended up staying out until 4!
Saturday was a lazy day seeming that we woke up at 1:30. We weren’t really sure if our fiend was going to come over for dinner but we decided to clean house nevertheless and waited for the important conformation call. The call came in around 5 and we had to scramble to out together a meal worthy of dinner guests. We had a really good temaki buffet with Akane, Morito, and Hiakru-kun. We met Akane at the volunteer camp we did in February and got to know her and her cute 5-year-old son. We first met her son at the most recent COSTCO trip and have been friends ever since. I actually that the night was going to be a night of adult conversations and issues but I had it totally opposite! They played video games with their son and even did some magic tricks for us. We showed them how to play Crazy Eights, which they were amazed to find out that anyone could play UNO with a deck of cards.
Then on Sunday we were told that they was a German food festival happening at the river so we just had to go. We had sauerkraut pasta, German potato salad, sausages, and beer. The beer wasn’t German but I didn’t hear too many people complaining. After another day by the river we decided to go home for some yakiniku. By the time everyone got to Kevin’s house we were all lazy so we decided to order pizza and play some video games. I don’t know of its because I7m getting old or what but I seem to really get into golf, XBOX Tiger Woods golf that it. We must have played until 1 in the morning, and on a school night! It was so dun and the most impressive thing about the game was that you could make a character to look almost exactly like you. In some cases it was really scary how close you can actually get it to look like you.
And then it was back to work. Well, I’m hardly gonna call this work since its gonna be a short week. On Thursday Krystal leaves for Korea and I leave for Taiwan. What’s in Taiwan? Tons of Chinese food, beaches, mopeds, and whatever 3 straight guys and a Gay dude can do in 7 days! See yah guys on the beach!
BREAKING IT DOWN!
posted by Chris at 10:35 PM
1 Comments:
hey chris,
not sure how arrived here... but hey whatsup! Wow you're still doing the JET thing. damn i envy you, those pics make me wanna go to japan sooo bad :P you planning on going to the expo 2005? i really wanna go to that and maybe we will in july.
~myko
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