UNESCO Kyanpu

Last week was a busy week (usually an oxymoron during the summer!) for ALTs, as we all had to go to the UNESCO English Camp from Wednesday through Friday. Each chuugakkou sends their English-y students, and they get to play games, speak English, do skits, etc. It is pretty much an excuse for everyone to get no sleep and have a big sleepover (don’t tell UNESCO that!). There were 15 ALTs (!!!) and 51 kids, so it was a lot of people. We all stayed the night there (well, most of us) Wednesday and Thursday night, so by the end of camp everyone was pretty much sleepwalking.

Each ALT got a group of about four people, and Cindy and I combined our 2nensei boys groups so that it was more fun and less awkward. We were in charge of doing a skit, and we ended up doing Harry Potter. Dude, Yasufumi (one of our boys) is totally an Asian Harry Potter, it was a bit freaky! It was actually a fun skit to prepare…I had forgotten the maturity level of 2nensei boys, as they attempted to incorporate as many fart jokes as possible within the five minutes. We also had the backbone of all skit humor….cross-dressing! We needed a Hermione, and since the group was all boys, we had Akihito dress in drag. Oh, it was amusing. He got wayyyy into it! He did his make-up over like three times! A bit worrisome!

Anyway, the camp was a lot of fun. It is nice to see the kids outside of the school setting, as you can actually see their real personalities….plus you can get all kinds of gossip out of them! Woot! I found out what they think of teachers, who is dating who (I know at least one of those should be “whom,” but whatever), etc! I need to hang out with my kids more often ;)

The only bad thing about the camp (other than getting NO sleep) was that the food was UNBELIEVABLY awful. Like, I have never had worse food in Japan EVER. Our first meal was curry, which is the basic “It’s cheap and you can’t fuck it up, so let’s have curry!” meal. Yet somehow they fucked up fucking curry. It was the saltiest shit EVER. It was like a salt lick with brown sauce over it. UGH. All of the meals were awful, and in the entire three days we had like one serving of vegetables. I felt sooooooooooo fat and malnutrition-ed on Friday that my dinner was just a shitload of vegetables. Fucking camp food! Ugh.

But anyway, the camp was way more fun than hanging out in the boring shokuinshitsu, plus I get 2 days of daikyu out of it! Yeeeea!