While I am glad that it is summer vacation, the days of being a pointless ALT have begun! Friday I biked my ass through an hour of rain to the BOE to waste time until the mysterious shougakkou ALT meeting in the afternoon. It was only me, Cindy, Tom and Robert there, and we were bored out of our minds within minutes! Never a good sign. The meeting was at 3, so we went for a 2 1/2 hour lunch to waste time, when all of a sudden Cindy got a call from our advisor on her keitai. Um, that’s never good! Mr. Goino was like, “Where are you? Didn’t you hear that the time changed? PLEASE HURRY!” We then sort-of quickly walked (hehe) to the BOE, only to find that we weren’t having an orientation that afternoon, but we were teaching shougakkou teachers English for no apparent reason?! Sooooooooooooooo pointless! Cindy and I threw together a half-assed lesson very quickly and then taught it. It went okay. Thank god for back-up games!!!
On Monday we did the same thing (tho I was lazy and trained and taxi-ed to the BOE this time, muahahaha) and it went even better. It was obvious that no one wanted to be there, so we pretty much just wasted time with games. As if shougakkou teachers have a burning desire to learn English for no reason during the summer! At least we were able to escape an hour early and “go back to school.”
Tuesday was the best day of the summer so far, as we attended a 90-minute meeting at Ota City Hall about our upcoming UNESCO English Camp. After that we “went back to school”….which is code for going to AEON and going shopping all day long! Hahahaha. We shopped at AEON for a while, then Genki Sushi-ed it up (sushi lunch for 5 bucks, yeeea!), then I spent far too much money on clothes at Uniqlo. However, it has been forever since I bought new clothes, so that is kind of justifiable….sorta. Yes, a very busy and difficult day being an ALT!
Today is my first day at school with no one to talk to, so there may be a significant increasing in blogging during these days! Stupid fake summer vacation!
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