Fortune day
Hahahaha. You know, every time my friends go on game shows they fucking OWN them. I remember watching two years ago as ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ohsochewy tore up Jeopardy, and so tonight, from across the planet, due to the magic of Youtube, I got to see happysteve completely own Wheel of Fortune.
I don't want to spoil it for any friends who haven't seen it yet, but I watched from the videos linked on Happy's journal here.
I guess the weirdest thing about it all is that it's bringing all these crazy college flashbacks into my mind. You know, like being able to say "Hey, see that dude on Wheel who just won a metric crapload of money? I used to play Worms in his dorm room in the summer of '96 because he was the only one of us with airconditioning, and I roadtripped across Pennsylvania with him, singing Animaniacs duets in the car, so I could geek out with Weird Al Yankovic's drummer about ancient Minolta cameras."
Good thing Carnival is in less than two weeks! (oh crap I am SO not ready for this trip though...)
My kids' class today was my last Friday with this group as a whole. Next week, the two older girls and the boy move up to the KH class on Wednesdays, and the youngest girl will stay in on Friday all by herself, which sucks for her. If I had my choice I'd just move the girls into a class and keep the boy by himself. Better for everyone, but hey, it's not my choice.
Today's class was the "yearly review", so I just kinda did a bunch of different things we'd done with a bunch of different words and all. The best was, I reviewed big numbers and I asked everyone, "how tall are you?" Now see, I have a growth chart on the wall which I used when we did that lesson before, back in September. And so all four kids' heights were recorded on there. And they've all grown about 2-3 centimeters taller since then! They were SO surprised! (But then they were like "uhh... I don't know how to say my new height number in English...")
Oh, yeah, they decided I am the Crane Game Pro, thanks to the growing pile of random toys on my bookcase, which I always let them play with. They wrote it all over my whiteboard:
One other really funny thing is that the tall girl actually called me by my name today, for the first time ever, I just realized. I don't think the kids know my name for the most part, they just call me Sensei, but today the one girl called me Deanna-sensei. So that was new and interesting.
I had a call from another GEOS teacher today who works in Nishinasuno and he was SHOCKED that I actually know where it is. He was like "Are you stalking me? Nobody outside of Tochigi has any fucking clue where we are." I'm like "Uhh... I memorize kanji by staring at train maps. Sue me."
My student who sort of lives in Hokkaido came back to class today after three weeks of being too busy at work! And now next week he's going back to Hokkaido to visit his wife & kids, and I'm going to America in two weeks, so I won't see him for three weeks, right before I go off to Hokkaido. Funny that. And he's going to America for a week in June, too.
Tonight I stopped in the arcade by Kawaguchi station and I FINALLY BEAT TENTAIKANSOKU HYPER godDAMMIT. I'm never playing that song again.
ohsochewy tore up Jeopardy, and so tonight, from across the planet, due to the magic of Youtube, I got to see happysteve completely own Wheel of Fortune.I don't want to spoil it for any friends who haven't seen it yet, but I watched from the videos linked on Happy's journal here.
I guess the weirdest thing about it all is that it's bringing all these crazy college flashbacks into my mind. You know, like being able to say "Hey, see that dude on Wheel who just won a metric crapload of money? I used to play Worms in his dorm room in the summer of '96 because he was the only one of us with airconditioning, and I roadtripped across Pennsylvania with him, singing Animaniacs duets in the car, so I could geek out with Weird Al Yankovic's drummer about ancient Minolta cameras."
Good thing Carnival is in less than two weeks! (oh crap I am SO not ready for this trip though...)
My kids' class today was my last Friday with this group as a whole. Next week, the two older girls and the boy move up to the KH class on Wednesdays, and the youngest girl will stay in on Friday all by herself, which sucks for her. If I had my choice I'd just move the girls into a class and keep the boy by himself. Better for everyone, but hey, it's not my choice.
Today's class was the "yearly review", so I just kinda did a bunch of different things we'd done with a bunch of different words and all. The best was, I reviewed big numbers and I asked everyone, "how tall are you?" Now see, I have a growth chart on the wall which I used when we did that lesson before, back in September. And so all four kids' heights were recorded on there. And they've all grown about 2-3 centimeters taller since then! They were SO surprised! (But then they were like "uhh... I don't know how to say my new height number in English...")
Oh, yeah, they decided I am the Crane Game Pro, thanks to the growing pile of random toys on my bookcase, which I always let them play with. They wrote it all over my whiteboard:
One other really funny thing is that the tall girl actually called me by my name today, for the first time ever, I just realized. I don't think the kids know my name for the most part, they just call me Sensei, but today the one girl called me Deanna-sensei. So that was new and interesting.
I had a call from another GEOS teacher today who works in Nishinasuno and he was SHOCKED that I actually know where it is. He was like "Are you stalking me? Nobody outside of Tochigi has any fucking clue where we are." I'm like "Uhh... I memorize kanji by staring at train maps. Sue me."
My student who sort of lives in Hokkaido came back to class today after three weeks of being too busy at work! And now next week he's going back to Hokkaido to visit his wife & kids, and I'm going to America in two weeks, so I won't see him for three weeks, right before I go off to Hokkaido. Funny that. And he's going to America for a week in June, too.
Tonight I stopped in the arcade by Kawaguchi station and I FINALLY BEAT TENTAIKANSOKU HYPER godDAMMIT. I'm never playing that song again.
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I'm going to have to beat that kid at, like, Supermarket Sweep or something to reclaim my rightful title as Supreme Money Winner of teh Intarwebz.
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Congrats on your Jeopardy wins, fellow awesome-gameshow-contestant!
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B.... F.... G.... :)
Congrats on passing Tentaikansoku :D
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