Yesterday was a pretty productive day at elementary school:
-I taught 6 classes, played animal pictionary 5 times, made three 4th graders cry, managed to not throw up while kids ate whole pregnant fish, and got chased by a 5th grader with a frog.
Elementary school, it’s insane.
Today is my 23rd birthday! I’m at jr. High today and wanted to enjoy it with my students, but as it turns out, I have NO classes ALL day because of testing. This is quite lame. However, I’m trying to make the most of it by planning an english bulletin board.
I also decided to ask one of my JTEs to eat with her class. It was a little awkward because I’ve never eaten with them before, and they are shy about talking. There was a second of panic over who I would sit with, but Belt!boy, who always asks for my belt but doesn’t really speak much english otherwise, freaked out and told me to sit with his group. We didn’t talk very much, but a few students tried to speak a little English. Afterwards my JTE said they had enjoyed it and asked me to come again, so that’s always nice.
One girl in that class had been asking me how to say “kintama” in English. I didn’t know what the word meant, so the best I could offer her was “gold ball” which is a literal translation. They always laughed at this so I finally looked it up. Unsurprisingly “kintama” means testicles, so I guess I wasn’t really that far off with the answer.
