Today was the last class I will have with the third year (3年生) Akashi Shimizu culture class. This is a good and bad thing – I am probably as happy as the students that I won’t have to try to get them to join in activities that they don’t want to do, but I am sad that I won’t get to see these 23 students that I quite like (as people, not necessarily as students) any more. I ended up giving the class my email address to keep in touch if they would like. A lot of them wrote it down, and said that they would like to write to me. I am not sure if I will ever hear from them again, but I hope that I at least run into them at kaiten sushi sometime.
I tried something a bit fun in my first year (１年生) classes today, and it worked well in 3 of my 4 classes. The other class is very hard to control – there are two ADHD boys who are pretty disruptive, and most of the girls refuse to talk unless they are one-on-one. Sadly, the class that failed a bit was last, so I came away feeling a bit useless, until on the way out of school I talked with a few of the students who were running laps around the school. They were actually happy to talk to me, and we chatted in English for about 5 minutes. I felt a lot better after that.
I tried something a bit fun in my first year (１年生) classes today, and it worked well in 3 of my 4 classes. The other class is very hard to control – there are two ADHD boys who are pretty disruptive, and most of the girls refuse to talk unless they are one-on-one. Sadly, the class that failed a bit was last, so I came away feeling a bit useless, until on the way out of school I talked with a few of the students who were running laps around the school. They were actually happy to talk to me, and we chatted in English for about 5 minutes. I felt a lot better after that.
On the way home, I picked up my Amazon order at a convenience store. One nice thing about living in Japan is that convenience stores (“conbini”) are really… convenient. I have paid bills, bought bus tickets, concert tickets, soccer tickets and bought a LOT of hot and cold coffee from conbinis, but today was my first COD (cash on delivery) experience at a Lawson (one chain of convenience store here). I took in my customer number and password number, punched them into a machine, got a receipt, walked to the counter to hand it over, paid my money like I had just bought it from the store, and walked out happily with my new books about using Japanese particles. All in less than 5 minutes. No wonder Japan is not a credit card-using society, when it is that easy to buy something online. I ordered the books on Wednesday or Thursday last week, they were ready to pick up on Friday, and it took my 5 minutes today to get them. Oh conbinis, how I will miss you!
Food Highlight of the Day: My 7-11 sandwiches for lunch!
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