Running a class and enjoying the week

After such an intense saturday, I figured I'd take it easy Sunday and just took the day to enjoy games, had some delicious food, and pretty much just took it easy.

Monday, I had an enjoyable day with my classes and students. There were only 4 classes, with the 5th being moral education. At lunch, I had a fun time talking with the students I was sitting with (as opposed to last week, where I sat at the front of the room since I only ate in the class a couple times last week. One of the boys I was eating with is pretty talkative. The guys at my table got a kick out of learning the word 'dumpling'. :-P

I also talked with Kawai-sense who wants me to lead a class on Wednesday, so I came up with the idea to do a 'baseball grammar' game.

In the afternoon I went to the gym and watched the 3rd years singing with a couple other professors. After the period ending, I stuck around with the choir teacher's homeroom which is also the 'select choir' of a sense. They were fantastic, energetic, and fun. the teacher asked me if there was anything I wanted to add after they got done, and I just gave some basic tips about how to stand and stuff, which was fun.

The teacher also was a little shocked I think that I actually had some experience singing.

After school got done, I left and walked 1/2 to the train station with some of my students and had a fun time with them. so far I'm really enjoying getting to know these students.

for dinner I made some curry, and although I had a tough time getting the rice cooker to work, I finally got it, had tons of curry, and basically felt like awesome.

today, I dropped off my garbage on the way to school, got in and had several classes with some beginning students and still did my self introductions, which was a tad boring, but these were classes I had on the first day of class, so it was neat to see them again.

I also had class with the 'amazing' students with Kasuga, which was fun just because I'm always surprised just how good these students are. I also gave some cd's to one of the girls in the class who I had told I would bring some music to after she played some music last class.

Today, I finished up the baseball game work, which went well, and Kubota-sensei told me that some of her students talked to her today saying that they walked with me yesterday and that they were shocked that I could speak japanese. But she told them it was just a bluff on my part. :-P

I was planning on taking some pictures of school today, and although my camera was fine this morning, as of this afternoon it was on the fritz. I'm still trying to get it to work. Hopefully all will be fine here in the 24 hours.
I made some fried rice for dinner tonight, which was interesting to try and make. But it all turned out well!

I'm looking into making a trip up to Matsumoto this weekend to meet up with an OT'er who's going to be there, and it's only a couple of hours away.