My third year girls really don't want to listen at all now - today was the second last class and they know that they have no reason to work anymore. But they are talking to me more now that they don't have to, which is nice. So while they aren't really doing any of the work that they are assigned in class, they are probably speaking and listening to more English than they have for the last 3 months!
My other first year classes were really quite good, actually. I think that over the break, there were a lot of New Year's Resolutions made to study harder and be better behaved in class... I wonder how long this will last!?
After school, I went for a quick shufti to the nearby shrine/temple to take photos of the New Years mikuji (fortunes from a shrine) tied to strings. Four boys of about 4-5 years old were playing hide and go seek in the grounds while I was there, and they looked at me like I was some crazy awesome thing that they had never seen before, paused for a second, then one of the raised his finger, pointed at me and yelled "Ahhhh, Gaijin" like they yell "Ahhhh, Gojira" in the movies. Ahhh, living in Japan...
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| Omikuji (New Year's fortunes) tied to strings in our local shrine. You tie up the bad ones to try to make them not come true. |
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| Our local shrine in winter |
Food Highlight of the Day: Super nice fresh bananas. Are they in season or something? They are really good at the moment.
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