morning game and today

Yes yes, I know it's been forever since I've posted. I'll try and turn that around here. :P

So this morning, Kubota sensei was giving speaking tests to the class I was with, so she had me practice some new dialogue with some of the students for a bit. Well, we finished in like 20 minutes, so we had nothing to do for the next 40. So we played a game called castles. The best part of this though, was that the boys team wanted to be called 'Barak Obama'. So on the top of their castle, I drew an american flag as their flag, and then i drew a little barak obama underneath it.

the game was going pretty well, the students were having a good time with it. Then i drew a cannon on their castle, and before I knew it, we had an 'Oooobama cannon' thing going on. it was pretty lulzy, since every time the boys got a question right, they would 'fire' the obama cannon at the girls castle.

also a bonus was one of the students who the boys called 'boss', as well as a couple of the boys getting really intense when it came to writing on the board.

Next period, I'm going to the bank to make sure I can send money home this week, since I have to start paying off all that debt I've accumulated. :P

Tomorrow I'm going to the mid-year conference in Shiojiri near matsumoto for thursday and friday. we stay in some dorms and go to 5 different presentations. i'm the secretary for one of them, which means i have to take notes on the presentation and turn in a paper talking about the points presented. it looks to be pretty blech, but whatevers, I'll survive.

saturday i'll be going to nagoya with about 15 other teachers for the day. we'll visit a meiji era villiage and have lunch there, and then spend the afternoon in a big mall. i'm hoping to pick up a usb video game controller there so i can play some of the games on my computer i have, particularly ken griffey jr. 's baseball, lul.

i also agreeded to go to the end of the semester party in december the day before i leave for china, so i have a feeling the trip to nagaoya and to seoul that day will be pretty long. haha.