Getting a little too personal...
So anyway I’m at one of my junior high schools and I relieved that the experience is getting better. When the week first started out it wasn’t as I hoped it would be but then it started to pick up for the better. The school I’m at now is a school that my friend had last year. So I assumed that my experience here would not be as drastic as it would be if they never had an ALT before. But things kind of got off on the wrong foot.
Well the teacher comes up and introduces himself and everything looks ok. But then he drops the bomb on me, asking me if I had a game for the two lessons we were going to teach today? I guess I don’t mind that we play game sin class and I become synonymous with “FUN” but 45 minutes before a lesson is uncalled for. I decide to take a stand and not give into this guy but his defense is just as strong. We sit there in stale mate, staring at each other. I’m saying, “I’m not just gonna give you a game with nothing to go on.” And he’s saying, “Your job is ALT, and I ‘m pretty sure that means you have to come up with a game when I ask you for one.” The stale mate lasts for about 25 minutes where he gives up and walks back to his desk. Then my guilty conscience kicks in and I suggest a game to do in his class. But come on. As a junior high teacher he should be the one coming up with lessons and how to teach them. I already have enough freedom in elementary school, I don’t need that kind of attention in junior high.
But as the week came along he seemed to lighten up a bit and I already prepared myself for the dreadful question, “Do you have, game?” I actually feel that the kids here are really good. They all have an enthusiasm for English that is pretty much non-existent in my other schools. The first years here, are ok since most of them came from my elementary school last year.
At this school they have an English elective course with a few students in it. Today was the first day I had one of these classes. Today was a pair of two girls that had pretty good English capability. Then I was asked the dreaded question, “Do you have game?” But not by the teacher but the two kids too. I guess I could think of a game to play in 10 seconds with just two students, female students…wink wink… OY! That would be wrong… We ended up playing Magical Banana…. HAHAHAHA that sounds funny too! Anyway for you non-perverted people Magical Banana is a word association game. You start off with Magical Banana is __________. For example lets say “Delicious”. Than the next person had to say, Delicious is Pizza. As long as the two words had something in common the game could keep going. Anyway the teacher and I played to get it going and on TWO occasions the teacher revealed something… personal. So anyway it was my turn and I was given “Big is the ground” (they call their field “ground” here) So I said, “The ground is dirty.” Then the teacher who is next to me says, “Dirty is my heart.” WTF!? The two third girls went crazy! I was wondering if he did that on purpose to get the students riled up or he was genuinely talking about himself. The girls, grossed out, said that that one didn’t count and he had to make a new one. Then later in the game I get passed, “Green is Jungle” which then I pass “Jungle is Dangerous.” My teacher takes “Dangerous” and links it to “Love.” The kids go crazy again and make comments about how you’re not supposed to put your own images into the game. I just that it was funny that he would actually say that. I mean the word association is there but for third year junior high schoolers, I thought his choices were a little inappropriate.
While we’re on inappropriate, one of the girls was doing something kind of weird. So of’ course you know that junior high school students have to wear uniforms. And these girls had uniforms and were wearing skirts. But the girl that sat across from us kept putting her knees up on the table ledge. So if you can imagine, it’s a straight path down to look, “you know where.” And she was totally oblivious to it. She kept on with game and every once in a while move her skirt up but with your knees like that there’s no way you can’t see. So anyway I kind of moved to the left so the other student would block the view but every time I passed the game to the teacher he was totally looking down her skirt! I didn’t know what to say. Do I tell the girl to put her legs down, because it looks obvious that people could see? I don’t know if she was doing that on purpose or not. But a few times she did “open” her legs too wide to be on purpose… Anyway, NOT THAT I WAS LOOKING but I know for sure that the teacher was. But the elective class was entertaining never the less. I have two more elective classes tomorrow and the teacher suggested we play Magical Banana again. Maybe he just associated “Magical Banana with Junior High School Panties.”
Break it Down!
Well the teacher comes up and introduces himself and everything looks ok. But then he drops the bomb on me, asking me if I had a game for the two lessons we were going to teach today? I guess I don’t mind that we play game sin class and I become synonymous with “FUN” but 45 minutes before a lesson is uncalled for. I decide to take a stand and not give into this guy but his defense is just as strong. We sit there in stale mate, staring at each other. I’m saying, “I’m not just gonna give you a game with nothing to go on.” And he’s saying, “Your job is ALT, and I ‘m pretty sure that means you have to come up with a game when I ask you for one.” The stale mate lasts for about 25 minutes where he gives up and walks back to his desk. Then my guilty conscience kicks in and I suggest a game to do in his class. But come on. As a junior high teacher he should be the one coming up with lessons and how to teach them. I already have enough freedom in elementary school, I don’t need that kind of attention in junior high.
But as the week came along he seemed to lighten up a bit and I already prepared myself for the dreadful question, “Do you have, game?” I actually feel that the kids here are really good. They all have an enthusiasm for English that is pretty much non-existent in my other schools. The first years here, are ok since most of them came from my elementary school last year.
At this school they have an English elective course with a few students in it. Today was the first day I had one of these classes. Today was a pair of two girls that had pretty good English capability. Then I was asked the dreaded question, “Do you have game?” But not by the teacher but the two kids too. I guess I could think of a game to play in 10 seconds with just two students, female students…wink wink… OY! That would be wrong… We ended up playing Magical Banana…. HAHAHAHA that sounds funny too! Anyway for you non-perverted people Magical Banana is a word association game. You start off with Magical Banana is __________. For example lets say “Delicious”. Than the next person had to say, Delicious is Pizza. As long as the two words had something in common the game could keep going. Anyway the teacher and I played to get it going and on TWO occasions the teacher revealed something… personal. So anyway it was my turn and I was given “Big is the ground” (they call their field “ground” here) So I said, “The ground is dirty.” Then the teacher who is next to me says, “Dirty is my heart.” WTF!? The two third girls went crazy! I was wondering if he did that on purpose to get the students riled up or he was genuinely talking about himself. The girls, grossed out, said that that one didn’t count and he had to make a new one. Then later in the game I get passed, “Green is Jungle” which then I pass “Jungle is Dangerous.” My teacher takes “Dangerous” and links it to “Love.” The kids go crazy again and make comments about how you’re not supposed to put your own images into the game. I just that it was funny that he would actually say that. I mean the word association is there but for third year junior high schoolers, I thought his choices were a little inappropriate.
While we’re on inappropriate, one of the girls was doing something kind of weird. So of’ course you know that junior high school students have to wear uniforms. And these girls had uniforms and were wearing skirts. But the girl that sat across from us kept putting her knees up on the table ledge. So if you can imagine, it’s a straight path down to look, “you know where.” And she was totally oblivious to it. She kept on with game and every once in a while move her skirt up but with your knees like that there’s no way you can’t see. So anyway I kind of moved to the left so the other student would block the view but every time I passed the game to the teacher he was totally looking down her skirt! I didn’t know what to say. Do I tell the girl to put her legs down, because it looks obvious that people could see? I don’t know if she was doing that on purpose or not. But a few times she did “open” her legs too wide to be on purpose… Anyway, NOT THAT I WAS LOOKING but I know for sure that the teacher was. But the elective class was entertaining never the less. I have two more elective classes tomorrow and the teacher suggested we play Magical Banana again. Maybe he just associated “Magical Banana with Junior High School Panties.”
Break it Down!
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