i just had the most pathetic meeting with one of my japanese english teachers. it's just after 9:00am, and we had a short meeting to discuss our 2nd grade class together during 4th period. H-sensei is this incredibly buoyant, extremely energetic man who's always talking really fast and with just so much conviction and vigor. he really takes his teaching seriously and strongly believes in making a difference with the students.
in contrast, this morning i feel like absolute mush. i have no idea why, but my brain has just refused to wake up. my body has been up and at it for over two and a half hours but my brain just absolutely refuses to catch up.
we went over today's teaching plan, and he asked for my input on several things - ie - questions to ask to students about a particular dialogue (MLB, baseball dogs). the warm-up is going to be my speech about baseball in canada, and my interest in it. "did justine-sensei watch MLB in canada?" he asked me. i looked up at him with tired, unfocused eyes and simply answered, "no." i could see the disappointment in his face and his determination to remain positive and genki. in his oh-so-delicate way he said, "ah! justine sensei! do you think...ah! could you...ah! would it be possible for you to say "YES I DID!" and tell all the students about baseball in canada!? i think they would be very interested to know about baseball in canada! could you say YES please??"
he then discussed the next part of the lesson - where we would take an idea from the dialogue, and make a "did you ~?" sentence out of it. he asked me for several ideas about these sentences to ask the students. "ah! justine sensei! will you please make a 'did you' question for the students!?!???" i tried desperately to register what he was saying but it was so difficult. i stared at the piece of paper in front of me for about four solid seconds before replying "um. yes." what is it going to take for me to wake the hell up this morning?
also desperately trying to sort out plans for july. just found out my friend esther will be in vietnam and i'm trying to see if it's feasible for me to skip over and meet up with her for a week or so.
life is tough man, life is tough.
in contrast, this morning i feel like absolute mush. i have no idea why, but my brain has just refused to wake up. my body has been up and at it for over two and a half hours but my brain just absolutely refuses to catch up.
we went over today's teaching plan, and he asked for my input on several things - ie - questions to ask to students about a particular dialogue (MLB, baseball dogs). the warm-up is going to be my speech about baseball in canada, and my interest in it. "did justine-sensei watch MLB in canada?" he asked me. i looked up at him with tired, unfocused eyes and simply answered, "no." i could see the disappointment in his face and his determination to remain positive and genki. in his oh-so-delicate way he said, "ah! justine sensei! do you think...ah! could you...ah! would it be possible for you to say "YES I DID!" and tell all the students about baseball in canada!? i think they would be very interested to know about baseball in canada! could you say YES please??"
he then discussed the next part of the lesson - where we would take an idea from the dialogue, and make a "did you ~?" sentence out of it. he asked me for several ideas about these sentences to ask the students. "ah! justine sensei! will you please make a 'did you' question for the students!?!???" i tried desperately to register what he was saying but it was so difficult. i stared at the piece of paper in front of me for about four solid seconds before replying "um. yes." what is it going to take for me to wake the hell up this morning?
also desperately trying to sort out plans for july. just found out my friend esther will be in vietnam and i'm trying to see if it's feasible for me to skip over and meet up with her for a week or so.
life is tough man, life is tough.
posted by Justine at 8:35 p.m.
8 Comments:
sounds like you're having the same kinda morning as me. i did a bad thing.hehehehehe! i had 1st period with a jte that never does anything and leaves all the planning to me, which is fine but he can get a bit annoying when he doesn't even check the T.T. schedule,just expects me to let him know and plan/do everything. he also must think i'm telepathic or something coz i'm supposed to know exactly what they're studying(incidentally i am very good at this!). usually i am fine with all of this. it's my own fault, i do everything so they expect it,it's kinda a compliment they trust me, but today i am not happy about it. so i did a bad thing, i went to the toilet right before the bell went for 1st period and because he never checks the schedule he went to class w/o me blissfully ignorant of our lesson.i don't care. i enjoyed my little rest/extra cup of coffee.sometimes i just cannot summon up the willpower to do anything.
does this make sense. i am still asleep and dreaming about lost(yup i'm hooked on a new show).
btw i booked the night bus to osaka.yay! i'm taking nenkyu on the fri, leave on the thur night and come back on the sun night, arrive back in niigata at 7 a.m. on the monday and going straight into school. i'll be wrecked but i'm still young(ish). not as young as pam but then who is? ;-)
haha kel i totally don't blame you! we all feel like that sometimes!
yay for osaka! are you coming to kobe???
Japanese teachers...not teacher's
i can never get those apostrophes right...good thing i don't have to teach them
fixed!
yup i'll hang out in osaka for a while on friday,then get local train to kobe (only 20 mins) and meet up with marijana after work, get drunk/eat western food, sleep, repeat,repeat, meet up with everyone/tom at some point, get night bus home on sunday, go straight to work on mon a.m. nice!
nice nice nice! tanoshimi!!!
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