Antici...pation
I just bought some tickets to go home in the summer. I should be on a plane on August 12 and staying home until the 28th. I don't know why but every since I made the reservations I feel real anxious to go home. I mean, when was the last time you were away from home for 10 months? And with that said not just away from home but away from Hawaii, and America in general? The "coolness" of it goes away after about 2 months or so. I mean for people that go away for college must feel it too. Anyway the biggest thing about going home would be talking to people what its like to live in Japan, but on top of that I have this unquenchable desire to... EAT EVERYTHING I can think of. The cravings for Zippy's, Jack in the Box, fruit punch, Taco Bell, and "jus' local kine grinds" is driving me insane! Just thinking about it now is making my mouth water. Anyway just a little longer and then its CHOW TIME!
In school/work news just finished another week at Ikubun J.H.S, giving me two weeks experience in junior high. Actually funny story about Friday. I walked in the staff office thinking that it was gonna be a cruise day when the secondary teacher Ms. Sayaka Hiraiyu makes a B-line straight towards me. The look on her face says everything but "cruise day". She normal takes the primary teacher role for only the 7th graders, and the usual primary teacher Mr. Yamada teaches 8th and 9th grade. Anyway Ms. Hiraiyu comes to me and asks, "Do you know what the plans are for Mr. Yamada's classes today?" How am I, the assistant language teacher, who's main job is to be a tape recorder to read aloud passages in native English know what the plans are? I give her a shrug and ask why would I know. Apparently Mr. Yamada, who was perfectly fine the day before had something nasty to eat and was at home experiencing explosive diarrhea. So what does that mean? 2 lessons for the 8th graders and 2 lessons for 9th graders are lost in limbo. So Ms. Hiraiyu fractically tries to put a lesson together and comes to me seeking advice. Coming from an awesome elementary background I try to give her my best ideas. The difficult thing about junior high is that they have a textbook and it must be followed to the letter so just playing any old game to past the time is forbidden. This did slow us down a bit but it didn't stop us. Anyway I decided that if I were to make an ass out myself the lesson would go by quicker and the students would probably NOT mutiny. She didn't seem to object as long it has something to do with the current language function. Anyway the language function being "SUBJECT look/looks/looked Feeling and past present sentence structures I went in front of the class and gestured a certain "feeling" and the students answered with "you look/Chris looks/Chris looked ~~ and then I said "Yes, I am ~~ because I was ~~ . It was a little tiring and lame but the students got a show and the day wasn't a total loss.
One more funny thing. In the 9th grade class the students knowing that Mr, Yamada was not there they decided to act more demonic than usual. Standard "substitute teacher day." Anyway Ms. Hiraiyu is a really young teacher, like 22 right out of college in her first year. Anyway the students see her more as an older sister than a teacher and rarely take her seriously. Anyway the students weren't paying attention as usual when a girl, (girl that usually doesn't listen and your typical rebel girl) gets up and goes clearly to the other side of the room to talk to her friend. She gets her information and goes back to her seat. Then a moment later she walked up to Ms. Hiraiyu and whispers something into her ear. Ms. Hiraiyu listens carefully and then in a not very inconspicuous way reaches around her back and does something. Evidently the top pf her underwear was showing and the girl just told her. But the funny thing is that when everyone noticed Ms. Hiraiyu shift her pants they all looked at one boy in the back of the class. Supposedly he was the one that noticed it first and let everyone in the class know. Then everyone started ragging the kid about looking at Ms. Hiraiyu's butt/underwear. They were asking things like, "what are you doing looking there, are you checking out Ms, Hiraiyu, and what color was her underwear since you got a good look?" So what am I doing? Trying really hard not to laugh in the back of the class. Incase no one knew my mind stopped maturing at the age of 13.
Sorry for such a long post but there is one more thing. Yesterday we threw a surprise party for my friend Kevin. Well his birthday is really next Saturday AND the same as his girlfriend. Anyway Val being the devious woman she is planned a party without any signs of knowing by Kevin's part. She organized the whole day, inivitations, and had every angle covered so that when the time came to yell "SURPRISE" Kevin would had definitely shit his pants. Which he did. His face was so priceless and Krystal was keen enough to get it on video. It was a crazy party with people, booze, and Taiwan. Taiwan being so awesome we re-lived it again on the balcony.
Number of weeks in planning = 3
Cost of cell phone bill for planning = 5,000 Yen
Number of emergency text messages made = 22
Cost of "fake" but real dinner date to get Kevin out of the house = 6,000 Yen
Number of people hiding in the living room = 30
Number of lies told by Val to cover up surprise party = 238
Cost of seeing Kevin's face when he shit his pants = PRICELESS
Broke HIM down!
In school/work news just finished another week at Ikubun J.H.S, giving me two weeks experience in junior high. Actually funny story about Friday. I walked in the staff office thinking that it was gonna be a cruise day when the secondary teacher Ms. Sayaka Hiraiyu makes a B-line straight towards me. The look on her face says everything but "cruise day". She normal takes the primary teacher role for only the 7th graders, and the usual primary teacher Mr. Yamada teaches 8th and 9th grade. Anyway Ms. Hiraiyu comes to me and asks, "Do you know what the plans are for Mr. Yamada's classes today?" How am I, the assistant language teacher, who's main job is to be a tape recorder to read aloud passages in native English know what the plans are? I give her a shrug and ask why would I know. Apparently Mr. Yamada, who was perfectly fine the day before had something nasty to eat and was at home experiencing explosive diarrhea. So what does that mean? 2 lessons for the 8th graders and 2 lessons for 9th graders are lost in limbo. So Ms. Hiraiyu fractically tries to put a lesson together and comes to me seeking advice. Coming from an awesome elementary background I try to give her my best ideas. The difficult thing about junior high is that they have a textbook and it must be followed to the letter so just playing any old game to past the time is forbidden. This did slow us down a bit but it didn't stop us. Anyway I decided that if I were to make an ass out myself the lesson would go by quicker and the students would probably NOT mutiny. She didn't seem to object as long it has something to do with the current language function. Anyway the language function being "SUBJECT look/looks/looked Feeling and past present sentence structures I went in front of the class and gestured a certain "feeling" and the students answered with "you look/Chris looks/Chris looked ~~ and then I said "Yes, I am ~~ because I was ~~ . It was a little tiring and lame but the students got a show and the day wasn't a total loss.
One more funny thing. In the 9th grade class the students knowing that Mr, Yamada was not there they decided to act more demonic than usual. Standard "substitute teacher day." Anyway Ms. Hiraiyu is a really young teacher, like 22 right out of college in her first year. Anyway the students see her more as an older sister than a teacher and rarely take her seriously. Anyway the students weren't paying attention as usual when a girl, (girl that usually doesn't listen and your typical rebel girl) gets up and goes clearly to the other side of the room to talk to her friend. She gets her information and goes back to her seat. Then a moment later she walked up to Ms. Hiraiyu and whispers something into her ear. Ms. Hiraiyu listens carefully and then in a not very inconspicuous way reaches around her back and does something. Evidently the top pf her underwear was showing and the girl just told her. But the funny thing is that when everyone noticed Ms. Hiraiyu shift her pants they all looked at one boy in the back of the class. Supposedly he was the one that noticed it first and let everyone in the class know. Then everyone started ragging the kid about looking at Ms. Hiraiyu's butt/underwear. They were asking things like, "what are you doing looking there, are you checking out Ms, Hiraiyu, and what color was her underwear since you got a good look?" So what am I doing? Trying really hard not to laugh in the back of the class. Incase no one knew my mind stopped maturing at the age of 13.
Sorry for such a long post but there is one more thing. Yesterday we threw a surprise party for my friend Kevin. Well his birthday is really next Saturday AND the same as his girlfriend. Anyway Val being the devious woman she is planned a party without any signs of knowing by Kevin's part. She organized the whole day, inivitations, and had every angle covered so that when the time came to yell "SURPRISE" Kevin would had definitely shit his pants. Which he did. His face was so priceless and Krystal was keen enough to get it on video. It was a crazy party with people, booze, and Taiwan. Taiwan being so awesome we re-lived it again on the balcony.
Number of weeks in planning = 3
Cost of cell phone bill for planning = 5,000 Yen
Number of emergency text messages made = 22
Cost of "fake" but real dinner date to get Kevin out of the house = 6,000 Yen
Number of people hiding in the living room = 30
Number of lies told by Val to cover up surprise party = 238
Cost of seeing Kevin's face when he shit his pants = PRICELESS
Broke HIM down!
posted by Chris at 10:23 PM
1 Comments:
Well Joel if your checking out girls more (like all guys ARE doing) you would know that the fashion for women are to wear those low rise pants. Its not like the teacher was wearing really hoochie momma low riders but they were low rise pants and if you have normal underwear on the pants can ride down and show the elastic of the underwear.
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