Day 50, May 2 (Thurs)

Most of the day I just felt sick. But I had fun skyping with people :)

My elementary classes went well. In the first one, when I was teaching classroom phrases (I forgot, once more please, I don’t know), I taught them ‘I got it’ and added the alternative ‘ah ha!’. For some reason, a group of girls were really cracked up by me saying that with the gesture. They ambushed me when class was done, and one girl kept asking me to do it. The others looked through the flashcards, and when one picked up my bag they all had to hold it to remark on how heavy it was, whereupon the first girl offered to pound my shoulders in return for me saying ‘ah ha!’ again. 

In the second class, there is a boy who is always reading through most of the class. At the end, he asked me to hold up my hand, so he could punch it (I guessed that’s what he was doing), then I said ‘wow, nice, do it again’ and that caught him by surprise, he followed me to the stairs and said we should have a match, I said I was wearing a skirt so I couldn’t. 

Kids are funny.

After this, I drove to Ikeda. I just wanted to go somewhere. There’s not much in Ikeda, but I did manage to find a shrine, and I got to drive under the torii. 

For dinner, I made donburi again, basically stir-fry with egg (and, in this case, tofu) on rice.

This was dessert. Mmm... I love these roll cakes.

But they’re dangerous. When I was in Japan with Mia, we would split one, right? So you know what happens when I get one on my own....

I had J.High dictation, then I took my trash to a pick-up location, and tried to hold out as long as I could so maybe I can sleep later tomorrow so maybe I’ll last later tomorrow... because today I started to fail around 7:30. My head is clogged and I have this infernal cough. Hugh said he's heard that new teachers are always sick the first year. I hope he was teasing....