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Friday -- I am 130 centimeters old
Hmm, seems like I last updated on Thursday night, eh... I think that was the day I just came home and ate instant noodles and tried to go to sleep at a reasonable hour.
Friday was Sachi's last day of work at GEOS. She took me to the post office bank to start an account, and I screwed up some writing stuff so it took like 40 minutes to do, but oh well. Lots of people came by to say goodbye to her, and many people brought in more sweets (seriously, all week people were bringing by cakes and cookies and candy for her. Apparently quitting your job is like having a birthday.)
I had bought new sticky-balls that morning from the 100-yen shop, so I ended up spending a bunch of time in the afternoon playing catch with various little kids who come to our school (either for lessons or with their parents who are taking lessons). Around 5pm or so, this guy from Honbu showed up to do finishing-up work with Sachi, and to be the temporary manager on Saturday. It was funny because he's apparently a fairly high-up guy in the manager chain, so our phone kept ringing because everyone was trying to get in touch with him. Eri took me aside at one point and was like "Ok, you need to, let's see... tuck in your shirt, fix your jacket, put more pins in your hair to keep it back..." it was strange, because we've been pretty relaxed most of the time, I guess.
I only had 2 kids in my 6pm class this time, and one was the girl who's probably the best student in the class, and the other is the boy, who just likes to cause trouble and get attention. So I taught the numbers from 60 to 150, for the lesson of "How tall are you? I am _____ centimeters tall." I measured them on the height chart I put up, and so with the girl, I said "How tall are you?" and pointed to the paper where we had written "I am 142 centimeters tall," and she stumbled a little over it but got it right. The boy, on the other hand...
Me: "How tall are you?"
Boy: "Nani?"
Me: "How TALL are you?"
Girl: "Baka." (points to his paper where it's written "I am 130 centimeters tall")
Boy: "..."
Me: "I am..."
Boy: "I am"
Me: "What's this number?" (pointing to 130)
Boy: "Hyaku san ju."
Me: "In English?"
Boy: "A hundred and three."
Me: "A hundred and what?"
Boy: "Shiranai."
Me: "A hundred and THIRTY."
Boy: "..."
Me: "Please say a hundred and thirty."
Boy: "A hundred and sirty."
Me: "Very good! Can you say 'centimeters tall?'"
Boy: "Nani?"
Me: "I am a hundred and thirty centimeters tall."
Boy: "I am a hundred and thirty."
Me: "[sigh]" To the girl: "How tall are you?"
Girl: "I am 142 centimeters tall." (she makes a face at the boy)
We ended up playing a few numbers games, one with a dartboard on the whiteboard where they had to throw the stickyballs and say the appropriate numbers in English (so the girl totally won even though the boy could throw better, because if he hit something I'd say "What number is this?" and if he wouldn't say it in English I wouldn't give him the points). Then I did an exercise with pronunciation of "thirty / thirteeeen, forty / fourteeeeen, fifty / fifteeeen" and so on, putting cards on the table and having them hit the right ones with hammers, except neither of them (even the girl) really could tell the difference. Yikes.
The boy's older brother is in a kids' class with Duane at the same time so they left together but the girl's mother didn't show up for a while so we played catch in the lobby and counted numbers; we got up to around 85 by the time my 7pm Sprint 7 student showed up. She was pretty amused and tried talking to my kid student in English a little. Our class went really well overall, as it always does, though we were talking about Saiyuuki for a bit, it took her a good 5 minutes to realize "wait a minute, if you watched the movie that means YOU UNDERSTAND JAPANESE WTF".
No class at 8pm so did a little preparation for my Mill B at 9, and then spent some time talking to Eri's college student from her 7pm class. Or more like, Sachi and Eri and I were all talking to him, with the usual thing where they all talk in Japanese and I just interject things in English from time to time, and then at some point the college guy says in Japanese, "Wait, Deanna-sensei understands us in Japanese?" and I said in English, "No, not while I am inside this building. Why are you all talking in Japanese? I don't understand you!"
My 9pm went reasonably well too, and then afterwards I came up to the office to turn in my paperwork and since I hadn't really talked to the manager guy before, and I assumed he didn't really speak English since nobody from Honbu seems to, I said in Japanese, "Wait, where are all the other sheets in here? Where should I put this?" and he replied in Japanese, "Whoa! You speak Japanese?" and I was like "Er, a little...?" "Oh, where did you learn?" "I studied it in college and so on..." and of course then Sachi came by and was like "Oh yeah, you should see, she can write her address in kanji and all of this other stuff too, it's pretty crazy," and the guy's like "Really! That's amazing! How lucky to have a new teacher who actually knows Japanese," and I said "I really just study it now for baseball stuff," "Oh, for baseball stuff? You like pro yakyu?" and of course I said yes, and explained that I'm a gigantic Fighters fan, and have been to tons of games and stadiums in Japan, and the manager guy's like "Oh, I used to play baseball in school, I was even scouted by a few teams, I used to be a shortstop," and I'm like "WHAT?"
So, yeah. I ended up sort of leaving work quickly though since I think they had a lot of work to do for Sachi's last day. I went to McDonald's to grab some food quickly (plus, I hate to say this, McD's has been a sort of weird every-now-and-then-I-need-something-stupidly-American fix for me, maybe once a week) and then came home, and tried to go to sleep quickly so I could get up early Saturday, but didn't really succeed and instead watched TV and whatnot.
Friday was Sachi's last day of work at GEOS. She took me to the post office bank to start an account, and I screwed up some writing stuff so it took like 40 minutes to do, but oh well. Lots of people came by to say goodbye to her, and many people brought in more sweets (seriously, all week people were bringing by cakes and cookies and candy for her. Apparently quitting your job is like having a birthday.)
I had bought new sticky-balls that morning from the 100-yen shop, so I ended up spending a bunch of time in the afternoon playing catch with various little kids who come to our school (either for lessons or with their parents who are taking lessons). Around 5pm or so, this guy from Honbu showed up to do finishing-up work with Sachi, and to be the temporary manager on Saturday. It was funny because he's apparently a fairly high-up guy in the manager chain, so our phone kept ringing because everyone was trying to get in touch with him. Eri took me aside at one point and was like "Ok, you need to, let's see... tuck in your shirt, fix your jacket, put more pins in your hair to keep it back..." it was strange, because we've been pretty relaxed most of the time, I guess.
I only had 2 kids in my 6pm class this time, and one was the girl who's probably the best student in the class, and the other is the boy, who just likes to cause trouble and get attention. So I taught the numbers from 60 to 150, for the lesson of "How tall are you? I am _____ centimeters tall." I measured them on the height chart I put up, and so with the girl, I said "How tall are you?" and pointed to the paper where we had written "I am 142 centimeters tall," and she stumbled a little over it but got it right. The boy, on the other hand...
Me: "How tall are you?"
Boy: "Nani?"
Me: "How TALL are you?"
Girl: "Baka." (points to his paper where it's written "I am 130 centimeters tall")
Boy: "..."
Me: "I am..."
Boy: "I am"
Me: "What's this number?" (pointing to 130)
Boy: "Hyaku san ju."
Me: "In English?"
Boy: "A hundred and three."
Me: "A hundred and what?"
Boy: "Shiranai."
Me: "A hundred and THIRTY."
Boy: "..."
Me: "Please say a hundred and thirty."
Boy: "A hundred and sirty."
Me: "Very good! Can you say 'centimeters tall?'"
Boy: "Nani?"
Me: "I am a hundred and thirty centimeters tall."
Boy: "I am a hundred and thirty."
Me: "[sigh]" To the girl: "How tall are you?"
Girl: "I am 142 centimeters tall." (she makes a face at the boy)
We ended up playing a few numbers games, one with a dartboard on the whiteboard where they had to throw the stickyballs and say the appropriate numbers in English (so the girl totally won even though the boy could throw better, because if he hit something I'd say "What number is this?" and if he wouldn't say it in English I wouldn't give him the points). Then I did an exercise with pronunciation of "thirty / thirteeeen, forty / fourteeeeen, fifty / fifteeeen" and so on, putting cards on the table and having them hit the right ones with hammers, except neither of them (even the girl) really could tell the difference. Yikes.
The boy's older brother is in a kids' class with Duane at the same time so they left together but the girl's mother didn't show up for a while so we played catch in the lobby and counted numbers; we got up to around 85 by the time my 7pm Sprint 7 student showed up. She was pretty amused and tried talking to my kid student in English a little. Our class went really well overall, as it always does, though we were talking about Saiyuuki for a bit, it took her a good 5 minutes to realize "wait a minute, if you watched the movie that means YOU UNDERSTAND JAPANESE WTF".
No class at 8pm so did a little preparation for my Mill B at 9, and then spent some time talking to Eri's college student from her 7pm class. Or more like, Sachi and Eri and I were all talking to him, with the usual thing where they all talk in Japanese and I just interject things in English from time to time, and then at some point the college guy says in Japanese, "Wait, Deanna-sensei understands us in Japanese?" and I said in English, "No, not while I am inside this building. Why are you all talking in Japanese? I don't understand you!"
My 9pm went reasonably well too, and then afterwards I came up to the office to turn in my paperwork and since I hadn't really talked to the manager guy before, and I assumed he didn't really speak English since nobody from Honbu seems to, I said in Japanese, "Wait, where are all the other sheets in here? Where should I put this?" and he replied in Japanese, "Whoa! You speak Japanese?" and I was like "Er, a little...?" "Oh, where did you learn?" "I studied it in college and so on..." and of course then Sachi came by and was like "Oh yeah, you should see, she can write her address in kanji and all of this other stuff too, it's pretty crazy," and the guy's like "Really! That's amazing! How lucky to have a new teacher who actually knows Japanese," and I said "I really just study it now for baseball stuff," "Oh, for baseball stuff? You like pro yakyu?" and of course I said yes, and explained that I'm a gigantic Fighters fan, and have been to tons of games and stadiums in Japan, and the manager guy's like "Oh, I used to play baseball in school, I was even scouted by a few teams, I used to be a shortstop," and I'm like "WHAT?"
So, yeah. I ended up sort of leaving work quickly though since I think they had a lot of work to do for Sachi's last day. I went to McDonald's to grab some food quickly (plus, I hate to say this, McD's has been a sort of weird every-now-and-then-I-need-something-stupidly-American fix for me, maybe once a week) and then came home, and tried to go to sleep quickly so I could get up early Saturday, but didn't really succeed and instead watched TV and whatnot.
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