2 weeks down already. o_o I think I'm in the only time in my life where I don't want the weekend to come, because it means another week is over and I'm a week closer to going home.
1st-3rd grade yesterday. SO. CUTE. SCRATCH MY EYES OUT.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I think that I connect the best and motivate the best with little kids. Maybe I just have more experience with them(nurture.) Maybe it's just who I am (nature.) I think I'm not afraid to be totally weird and silly and out there with them. They respond to my energy where older kids might laugh at it. In any case, I don't think it won't change. I WANT it to change. I want to get equally comfortable with other grade levels. Tomorrow is middle school, which (expectedly) is the most challenging. I think they're more obedient and focused than American middle schoolers, but still have their little problems with maturity and respect.
Yesterday Mai and I went to the SUIZOKUKAN (水族館)! The Nagasaki Penguin Aquarium! It's about half an hour away so we took a bus there which cost Y400 each time which I was VERY DISPLEASED about. That's like, four meals. -_- That's one of my biggest shocks, how expensive transportation is here. But it was worth it. I need to do stuff and explore my town/region or there's (sort of) no point in me living here.
The aquarium was great! :)
Baby!
Today we got a new girl in our English Club class named Kaho and she's FOUR. ♥_♥ We were introducing ourselves and the 7-year olds were all shy and quiet and she was just like "YAMASHIRO KAHO DESU!" The other kids were like ...Did a 4-year-old girl really just speak that comfortably and loudly? Showin' them up. And it was extra cute because she knew what she was supposed to do but she didn't know how to say it in English so she just went for it in Japanese. And we played animal charades which worked really well and was super cute and fun for them.
I want to stop and smell the roses more, just remember that I'm here and how lucky I am to be here. I usually crystallize and define experiences only in hindsight, but I want it to happen now so I can really appreciate it. It's hard to explain. I enjoy my small responsibilities here. I enjoy, for now, having a boss and not being my own boss (as most full-time teachers are.) When I leave the suspension bridge I'm teetering on, when the string is cut and I fall into the world of full-time work life, I won't have so many of the luxuries I have now. It's a scary prospect.
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