Fun Times at 小学校

So, despite getting up way earlier than usual, not being ready for any of my classes, and biking 15 minutes in typhoon rain and wind (um, hey, wet underwear and swearing loudly to the Japanese gods), shougakkou was a TON of fun today. I openly admit that kids are annoying and should often hide in sound-proof rooms where they won't bother me (good thing I didn't mention that in the JET interview), but my shougakkou kids are sooooo cute! Oh yeah, shougakkou means elementary school.

Anyway, I started off the day by introducing myself to the whole school through a TV broadcast. WTF? It was the most ghetto old-school 1950's newsroom video camera I've ever seen, but I was still impressed. It was broadcast to every room, and I could hear the kids screaming back "HELLOOOOOO!" and stuff from their classrooms. It was fun.

None of my classes crashed and burned, and most of them went extremely well. They all pretty much asked me the same questions..."How big are you?," "Why are you that big?," "Do you have a girlfriend" (one for every day of the week is my answer), etc etc. For some reason shougakkou kids are extremely interested in what bugs I like? I got asked this multiple times. My answer of course was none, and that Japanese bugs are scary radioactive giants.

I ate with the 6nensei, which were not all bitchy and too-cool-for-school like I had heard they would be. They invited me to play soccer during recess, but I sadly had to do prep. for the next class. I will play with them next time, though. I'm sure they'll be amazed by my athletic abilities.

I didn't sleep much last night, but I had tons of energy thanks to the kids (and perhaps partially thanks to two energy drinks I had that made me feel as if my heart was going to burst from my chest at any moment).

So yes, 小学校=let's having fun times!

K, I will stop being a dorky teacher person now. Got to get going to the potluck at Sean's. Hopefully this typhoon agrees with me and lets me bike to the station in peace...