Yes....Mr. Wonderful...

Sept. 16th Wednesday

So today was a super fun day at the middle school as it usually always is anyways. Today after English class I told the 3rd year kids that I want to see the final routine all together because I didn't get to teach them the day before since I was teaching at the elementary. The kids were awesome enough to take time out of their busy matsuri/festival prep day to perform for me. AND THEY DID EXCELLENT!!! Well, there were some areas that were a little choppy, but for never having danced before and volunteering to do this in 3 days they were amazing! I was sooooo immensely proud of them!!!! I cheered and shouted and jumped up and downI was so happy. The kids caught on to my happiness and also felt very proud of themselves. XDXDXD When I asked them how was the lesson that Yoneda-sensei taught in my stead yesterday they were like..."Well, we understood the moves, but because it wasn't the real thing (me) teaching it looked a little weird and wasn't as cool. And just now when you were reteaching us the last steps it was totally different looking. Much much cooler!" LOL I couldn't help laughing, because I could totally understand how they feel since I've seen Yoneda-sensei try to mimic my dancing. It looks...interesting. haha But I applaud him for teaching the steps and being able to dance along. He really is an amazing teacher. Of course, he is the PE teacher so there has to be some physical ability in him. =P Anyways, I told the kids they were "awesome" and now they use that word everytime they see me. hehe.

Afterwards I decided to walk around because it was festival preparation time. Outside the teacher's office I saw 4 of my fav female 2nd year students putting up tissue paper flowers as a border decoration for a large board with a bunch of pictures glued together spelling an expression that I was like WTF? And I found out the expression was just a word that the current famous comedians say...I was very confused and was seriously like WTF is this word? Is it even Japanese? lol When I saw the girls I got all excited and went over to them. They were putting the paper flowers on their heads and it looked so cute I wanted one too. So they put one on me. lol They said pink looked best on me. Not my favorite color, but hey, it did look cute on me according to all the girl students who were super excited to see the flower on my head. =P And all my 3rd year boy students were like "dude, even the teacher has one on her head!??" lol But they all commented that I looked beautiful and cute. haha. Good boys. I feel like I'm the only teacher who does these weird things with the students. I like it though. It's fun and I get close with the students. I spent quite a while with the girls decorating. And we had fun talking about stuff. I inserted English here and there, but majority of it was in Japanese. I swear, if I didn't know Japanese I don't think they would talk to me as much. And because I try with Japanese they try speaking English with me too, practicing what they learned that day. I was proud of them. Anyways, so the other teachers who saw me would either give me funny looks or say I looked really cute. haha. =P

Then afterwards, I went through the 2nd year's 80% finished maze. It wasn't difficult to get through, but fun nonetheless. Then I went to help the 3rd years with their carnival activities that they had dubbed "Adventure World". LOL One of the girls was like "Why did we call it Adventure World? It seems like we have some kind of sci-fi attraction when it's just festival activities." lol When they were choosing the name, I had the last say in it because I was there in the room at the time. So I did the "innie minnie miny moe" thing between Adventure Land and World and it ended up being that. Afterwards when i was leaving a bunch of the students were still at school doing more festival preparations! I was amazed at their dedication! Go kids!

At 5:30 was my enkai (welcome party) for elementary since we had yet to have one. And it was not only for me, but also for and Hirano-sensei (the 2nd grade teacher) who is leaving on maternity leave in which the newly come Kudou-sensei (who is very handsome and tall who I will from now on refer to as Mr. Wonderful) will replace. So it was a party for all 3 of us. And it was themed with food. lol It was so cute. All the teachers who were presenting something and us new ones and leaving ones were given props to wear to represent what we liked to eat. I was an uni sushi in which I was given a taped together circular roll of black paper to represent the nori (seaweed) which went around my head so I couldn't see and a wig the color close to uni. lol I couldn't see but still had to present an opening speech with the thing over my head. So I'm not sure if I was able to be clear in my speech. =P Hirano sensei was a bowl of ramen! I will post these pictures soon! You have to see this ramen bowl thing! It's amazing and cool and super goofily cute! And then Mr. Wonderful was a box of curry. lol

We played a guessing quiz game on how well we know the teachers and I knew Takagi-san the best so I was able to guess her part. It was really quite a lot of fun. And I got to sit next to Mr. Wonderful the whole time. And damn, he has a nice toned body. Even Watanabe-sensei (the male 6th grade teacher) was impressed. He was like "Dude, flex your arms." In which Mr. Wonderful did, and Watanabe-sensei was just like "SUGOI!" lol Seriously, his arms were AMAZING!! Like, damn those are nice arms, and his chest too! Watanabe-sensei was also trying to mimic Mr. Wonderful's toned chest. He is seriously fit and not in a bad ugly way! It was because he used to play rugby in school. He's a super kind guy who loves nature and is very smart. His face isn't too bad either. He's one of those almost perfect guys. In a way, he is better than Mr. Gorgeous. Mr Gorgeous is just gorgeous and cool-like and has a nice body but he doesn't think too much of his students which gets me a little down about that because I care for the students alot even if they don't really want to learn English and very lifeless in my class. They don't really try and some of them just give up too easily. So I try to make my classes weird and fun for them. Their happiness makes me happy. So it disappointed me a little about his attitude with the kids.

After the first party ended we went to the nijikai (second party) and sung Karaoke, but it wasn't my best. I actually sung terribly. haha. =P But Mr. Wonderful's voice was beautiful! I was like "Hirai Ken?" Takagi-san and I had a good girl to girl talk and decided to hang out more together in the future because we were the only 2 girls around the same age. lol And she told me to just call her Yuki from now on. YAY! ANd I don't have to use desu/masu with her anymore! Friendship progressing! So we said during silver week we would go do something. WOO! We both do absolutely nothing during our free time except stay at home and surf the internet or other things. lol So we're going to hang out a lot more now! A FRIEND!! ^o^ Anyways, that was the end of our day. And I've decided that I have taken an interest in Mr. Wonderful now because I'm sure he's not married and doesn't have a girlfriend. Or I hope he doesn't have a gf because then I would have to become disinterested in him. My rule that I try to follow. Try. lol

Sept. 17th Thursday

One more day until the middle school festival! I'm so excited! Today I went to the high school to play a game called Landmines with the students that uses English directions. There are pieces of paper with pictures of bombs on them scattered all over the floor. And you have to maneuver around them while wearing a blindfold. One person gives directions while the other does the walking. And I was super surprised that they didn't know what left or right was!!!! I was like...dude you learn that in elementary/middle school! It's one of the most important and basic English words. I was shocked actually. But at least this game will be sure to make them remember. They have to know it to play otherwise they can't and everyone has to play no one is left to stay on the sidelines. Even the kids who thought it was mendoukusai had to play, but I know that secretly they enjoyed it. =P Because it's these kinds of thing you'll rememeber. English class is the only time when they can play games and get up and go to the gym during class time to do weird things. Anyways, all the kids were really into it and enjoyed it. So I was super glad and happy for that fact. Mr. Gorgeous said that it's okay if the students don't seem like they're into it because they have no will and are just stupid. But I said that it doesn't matter in English class, because whether or not you have the will you still have to do it and these activities are games that they will enjoy, not paperwork; so regardless they will join in or cause their teammates shame and not look cool in class.

I'm trying to devise a way that will make sure that everyone in class participates regardless if they really want to or not. Because whatever I do they will do it because they enjoy it. Even the game today, many of the boys and girls, at first, were like "Jeez, this is so mendoukusai (troublesome)" but still did it anyways and were laughing and having fun. They just say those things to seem cool and pretend that they don't really think it's worth their time. But I know they like these little games. Their expressions don't lie. =P I'm glad for that. They had just received their test results back and were really unhappy so this game possibly cheered them up a little.

Then I went over to the elementary school and played the same game. And it was a huge success! Even Watanabe-sensei was so excited with this game. He said it was the first time all year and all the times that he's been teaching that he's had so much fun in class and thanked me. I was so happy and my chest just swelled hearing that. BIG SUCCESS! The kids were laughing and excited during the whole game. They loved it. And were also really happy everytime I play "Theresa says" (my rendition of Simon Says). I did that with directions today. lol I love the kids here.

After dinner today I decided to ask Yuki if she wanted to go out for dessert with me. She had accidentally broke the laminator by feeding the stuff in the wrong side. lol And was feeling very down from that so I thought it might cheer her up. Besides I haven't really gone to dinner or anything with her yet. So dessert it is. We had so much fun talking about random crap and she says she wants to go with me to the festival on saturday. So together we will go! ^^ She also said that her parents told her that I can go visit her house anytime and have dinner with them!!! XDXDXDXDXD I'm so excited to do so! YAY! Anyways afterwards we decided to go see if anyone was still at the elementary at 9pm and there still were! Mr. Wonderful and Ootani-sensei were still there workin away. We snuck up quietly by the windows to peer in so that they wouldn't see us. And when they walked by the windows, we would duck. lol We were so inconspicuous. =P I think I will make some kind of food for them or something next time and bring it to them during this hour because they're always at the school until so late at night and i'm not sure if they've eaten. I think I would like it if someone brought me food while I was still working late into the night. Anyways, we tried not to be loud or be seen and then snuck back to my car and went back home. haha.

Otsukare-sama for reading! I will post more on other good things later and pictures. Oh, and I got to ride in Mr. Gorgeous's car today. It was cute, the interior was sleek, and it smelt sexy. lol But I think I'm starting to prefer Mr. Wonderful over Mr. Gorgeous