Survived!
I am REALLY glad I stayed till midnight copying stuff on Wednesday, otherwise today would have been SUPER hellish, but instead it was just plain busy. I'm about to speak GEOSese for a second, but basically I had four Intensive Sprint classes today (and my usual Millennium A) and the AVERAGE number of students per class was 5. Two of the classes had 6 students in them. Normally Sprint classes are supposed to have 4 people tops, so. I'm not used to having huge classes; I even had to steal an extra chair from our spare/French classroom, since I only have 6 chairs in my room including mine.
On the other hand I think the classes actually went pretty well. The later class with 6 people had 2 Sprint 5's, 2 Sprint 6's, and 2 Sprint 7's, so rather than having to make anyone feel bad for being above or below their level, I could just pair up the people at their levels, and then we played a Hotel Lobby game in groups of 3 which was really funny, and thus the 6 people worked out pretty well. The earlier class with 6 people was a bit more chaotic, although it featured one of my students saying, "Deanna-sensei... is [Kazuhiro] Kiyohara a has-been?" It really took a pretty big effort to not completely fall over laughing at that one. They also were like "Is Darvish a heartthrob?" Hehe. The other student showed me her pen that she had from when Atsunori Inaba played for the Yakult Swallows... she's apparently been a big fan of his for a while.
After work, in theory I was going to meet up with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rjmccall and catlyons, who just arrived in Tokyo and are here for the next few days, but they accidentally walked the wrong way and ended up at Nezu station instead of at Nippori, so ended up not coming up to Akabane after all. Tomorrow they'll have more time to figure things out, so hopefully we can meet up after I'm done with work for real. Now I just have to figure out if anything's decent and open late in Akabane, or if it makes more sense to wander Nippori-wards. Of course, I only really know one great open-late place in Nippori and something tells me it wouldn't make sense to take them to Erika...
On the other hand I think the classes actually went pretty well. The later class with 6 people had 2 Sprint 5's, 2 Sprint 6's, and 2 Sprint 7's, so rather than having to make anyone feel bad for being above or below their level, I could just pair up the people at their levels, and then we played a Hotel Lobby game in groups of 3 which was really funny, and thus the 6 people worked out pretty well. The earlier class with 6 people was a bit more chaotic, although it featured one of my students saying, "Deanna-sensei... is [Kazuhiro] Kiyohara a has-been?" It really took a pretty big effort to not completely fall over laughing at that one. They also were like "Is Darvish a heartthrob?" Hehe. The other student showed me her pen that she had from when Atsunori Inaba played for the Yakult Swallows... she's apparently been a big fan of his for a while.
After work, in theory I was going to meet up with
rjmccall and catlyons, who just arrived in Tokyo and are here for the next few days, but they accidentally walked the wrong way and ended up at Nezu station instead of at Nippori, so ended up not coming up to Akabane after all. Tomorrow they'll have more time to figure things out, so hopefully we can meet up after I'm done with work for real. Now I just have to figure out if anything's decent and open late in Akabane, or if it makes more sense to wander Nippori-wards. Of course, I only really know one great open-late place in Nippori and something tells me it wouldn't make sense to take them to Erika...
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