November 28, 2004
Welcome to my thing on the world wide whochamacallit
The most irregularly updated thing of terrible and intensity, you will laughing, crying and be sleep. Enjoy my loved family and friends I make this wonderful for you enjoy. Now fix English after much Japanese public school. :D
Well, at long last, after holding your breath for 4 months, I have finally started a thing and it has one entry! Woo hoo! You may have to hold your breath a lot longer for entry number two. In the meanwhile, I plan to play with fonts, fiddle with colors, twiddle my toes, think about uploading photos (but not actually doing so), ponder interesting idea-ma-bobs for articles for my thing, and generally cause you to loose hair 37 years earlier than originally scheduled by the great secretary in the sky.
BUT your wait will be rewarded (in 6 years time). You will be able to witness and behold great feats of not-finishing and procrastination, soggy wit and bad humor, and the occasional flash of brilliance which I so deem it fitting to bestow up this thing, and so forth etc. etc. and so on. Right.
If you are a friend or family and I've sent you an email and you've stumbled across this and you wonder what HAS he/she/it been doing with his/her/its self these past few (insert whatever time period)?.... (gasp!) I will illuminate you with my exciting exploits of the past few months.
I have arrived in Japan and am living fairly near to that great city, Tokyo. I teach English (ha!) to kids at average and slightly below average high schools, special needs schools and the occasional super-duper-these-kids-speak-better-English-than-me high schools. (That may be a slight overexaggeration.) I will be talking more about my days at school later, so I won't taint your mind now with sweeping generalizations.
I feel very lucky to have been given this opportunity, no gaff. I'm serious. I am getting paid to meet kids and teachers, go travel around my prefecture, try my hand at teaching (mostly fun games, really), and generally get a down-at-the-ground view of what Japan is about. Well, the more developed part near Tokyo, that is. :D People seem pretty civilized and the pay is good. So, hey, I'm happy as a little fishy poo.
Christmas is coming (it's been heralded in Japan since sometime in October) so it's time to get down and get those fun Christmas English lessons planned. Since I meet my kids very rarely (maybe one every two or three weeks), my first Christmas lesson will be this week. I am thinking something along the lines of a Christmas fair: six stations with different Christmas related activities using one or more of the four language skills. Those would be reading, writing, speaking and listening. I think I'm going to do the following stations: write your own Christmas/hannuka/etc. card, watch a Xmas movie clip and fill in the blanks in the dialogue, learn a xmas song, do a Xmas dialogue with me, xmas quiz and xmas around the world display and puzzle. Wish me luck. I have a lot of research and preparation I will need to do in the next couple of days. Aiiga!
Well, I think I've babbled enough for now. It is getting late, and I fear for my wakefulness tomorrow should I not slepeth right now. Ditto for my English abilities!
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