Mmmm, donuts
First, I'm going to do a rare "happy birthday" message here, to both ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
teravell and garzahd. Laura because she keeps my hope alive that I will meet some other cool GEOS teachers here and Matt because, ironically, the last time he posted was on my half birthday, with a cool days-of-the-week trick, pointing out that among other things, 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, and 12/12 are all on the same day of the week. Now it is 12/12. I started teaching class at GEOS on 8/7, so 8/8 was my second day there, also a Wednesday. Yikes, four months has passed already?
Lots of crazy stuff happened today, the craziest being some guy in a normal business suit coming into GEOS around 7pm and trying to ask me questions in Japanese and mostly failing since I couldn't tell what he was saying. I explained that there was no manager and the Japanese teacher was in a class at the moment, so if he wanted to know something he should come back later. Luckily one of my students was around for the exchange, and after the suited man left the building my student, who looked slightly shocked, said two things to me in English:
1) "You speak Japanese. I did not know that."
2) "Why are the police asking questions here?"
And then I got pretty shocked too because I know the word for police -- keisatsu -- and I swear I didn't hear this guy say that. Whoops. So I freaked out a little bit.
My 7pm started a little late as a result, and inbetween the 7 and 8pm, the student hung around a bit and explained in Japanese to Eri what had happened. I felt really bad about the entire thing but everyone was pretty nice about it. This might be due to the fact that after the 7pm class I got out my big box of Krispy Kreme assorted donuts and offered them to my 7pm students AND my 8pm students who had to wait like 10 minutes for class to start while we sorted things out. Everyone was all like "Ooooo, Deanna brought us exotic American-store donuts!"
(Heck, in my 3pm Passages 2 class I literally ended up giving a spontaneous 10-minute lesson on how to describe donuts/cakes/etc, after my students took some donuts. "It is covered with powdered sugar. It is filled with strawberry jam." and so on.)
It worked out that I only had 7 students today, so a dozen donuts was about right. I got to eat 4 of them, and gave the rest to Eri and students. On the one hand I feel good for spreading the happiness around -- most of the people were all like "OMG, I always wanted to try Krispy Kreme but didn't want to wait two hours," but on the other hand I just kind of ended up spending $4 per donut on the ones I actually ate. Maybe I can justify this all as a desperate attempt to gain back all the weight I've lost, so I can stop worrying about buying new clothes!
Speaking of new clothes, I wore the new brown dress shirt today and I was really happy about it, except I noticed that the sleeves are a LITTLE bit short. Not too surprising if you think about it, I guess.
We have another one of these "Intensive Week" things next week. Joy. I finalized my schedule today, so students could start signing up. I'm honestly looking forward to running some of the listening classes since they focus on talking about sports, and the other listening class is talking about actors and movies, but the rest of them this time around aren't particularly inspiring.
teravell and garzahd. Laura because she keeps my hope alive that I will meet some other cool GEOS teachers here and Matt because, ironically, the last time he posted was on my half birthday, with a cool days-of-the-week trick, pointing out that among other things, 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, and 12/12 are all on the same day of the week. Now it is 12/12. I started teaching class at GEOS on 8/7, so 8/8 was my second day there, also a Wednesday. Yikes, four months has passed already?Lots of crazy stuff happened today, the craziest being some guy in a normal business suit coming into GEOS around 7pm and trying to ask me questions in Japanese and mostly failing since I couldn't tell what he was saying. I explained that there was no manager and the Japanese teacher was in a class at the moment, so if he wanted to know something he should come back later. Luckily one of my students was around for the exchange, and after the suited man left the building my student, who looked slightly shocked, said two things to me in English:
1) "You speak Japanese. I did not know that."
2) "Why are the police asking questions here?"
And then I got pretty shocked too because I know the word for police -- keisatsu -- and I swear I didn't hear this guy say that. Whoops. So I freaked out a little bit.
My 7pm started a little late as a result, and inbetween the 7 and 8pm, the student hung around a bit and explained in Japanese to Eri what had happened. I felt really bad about the entire thing but everyone was pretty nice about it. This might be due to the fact that after the 7pm class I got out my big box of Krispy Kreme assorted donuts and offered them to my 7pm students AND my 8pm students who had to wait like 10 minutes for class to start while we sorted things out. Everyone was all like "Ooooo, Deanna brought us exotic American-store donuts!"
(Heck, in my 3pm Passages 2 class I literally ended up giving a spontaneous 10-minute lesson on how to describe donuts/cakes/etc, after my students took some donuts. "It is covered with powdered sugar. It is filled with strawberry jam." and so on.)
It worked out that I only had 7 students today, so a dozen donuts was about right. I got to eat 4 of them, and gave the rest to Eri and students. On the one hand I feel good for spreading the happiness around -- most of the people were all like "OMG, I always wanted to try Krispy Kreme but didn't want to wait two hours," but on the other hand I just kind of ended up spending $4 per donut on the ones I actually ate. Maybe I can justify this all as a desperate attempt to gain back all the weight I've lost, so I can stop worrying about buying new clothes!
Speaking of new clothes, I wore the new brown dress shirt today and I was really happy about it, except I noticed that the sleeves are a LITTLE bit short. Not too surprising if you think about it, I guess.
We have another one of these "Intensive Week" things next week. Joy. I finalized my schedule today, so students could start signing up. I'm honestly looking forward to running some of the listening classes since they focus on talking about sports, and the other listening class is talking about actors and movies, but the rest of them this time around aren't particularly inspiring.
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http://www.doughnutplant.jp/eng/index.html
Of course, I have no knowledge of geography where you are, so it might be a trek
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule
Just an expanded version of Garzahd's post, complete with official name.
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