Friday, September 4, 2009

Back to School, in brief

I just wanted to write a quick note to assure anyone who is terribly disappointed that I haven't posted in awhile that I haven't abandoned the blog. I'm back in Shikokuchuo and I've started teaching, but I still don't have internet in my apartment and I haven't settled into a routine yet. Once I do, I will be sure to return to my habit of writing extremely long posts, I'm sure!

For now, let me just say that my last week in Matsuyama was a lot of fun, but it made settling back into Shikokuchuo a little difficult at first. I was spending most of my days relaxing and hanging out with other English-speakers, and then suddenly I was getting up at 6, working, speaking Japanese all of the time, and that was before I started teaching! I was a nervous wreck the day before my first lessons, as my wonderful and patient mother and sister can tell you. But the lessons went pretty well, the kids are great, school lunch is actually quite good (chicken curry and naan on Thursday!) and my fellow teachers are very kind and patient with me. I still feel like I don't know what's going on half of the time, but I assume I'll get used to everything in time. I move to another school next week, but I've got 9 classes under my belt now, and I'll be teaching the exact same thing: my self introduction. Since I know a lot about myself and I have some fantastic pictures of home that Nathan kindly printed out and sent to me, it's a good lesson with which to start.

More details to follow, but lots of love to those back home!

1 comment:

  1. Best video ever:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG9vYZmoqmg

    Also -- you get chicken curry and naan as school lunch?! AWESOME.

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