haha. . . these people are great. . . kaori, who just turned 41 yesterday, is doing the dance from her junior high sports festival. . . i have three sports festivals to go to in the next four weeks or so (one for the junior high school, one for the elementary school, and one for the nursery schools). . . don’t ask me what a sports festival is because i still really do not understand. . . all i know is that my junior high school students look like they belong in the military. (we practice for this thing a few hours everyday.) some girl blows a whistle and shouts a command, and all the students move in unison. . . i think i have to run in a relay and do something else. . . i’m on the red team if you care to know. . . (which reminds me, we have no school colors and no school mascot. . . no one in japan does!!!). . .
anyway. . . the typhoon has passed with no major damage (not in kahoku anyway. . . guess it was pretty tough in kyushuu). . . i did not have to walk home in the typhoon. . . instead, i had personal taxis everywhere i went. . . during the worst part of the storm, yamashita-san and i watched spiderman 2. . . today, everything is back to normal. . . sunny and really, insanely hot!!!
i had my first lessons at the nursery schools this morning. . . my favorite by far!!!! three classes (about twenty minutes each) at the birafu nursery (ages three, four, and five) followed by one mixed class at the futaba nursery (ages three through five). . . before my class at futaba, i got to play with the one and two year olds for a bit. . . in fact, they wondered into my lesson with the older kids later. . . so, so cute!!! i really need to learn japanese though. . . they have so much to say! . . . the little ones pulled out books for me to read (but they were all in japanese!!!). . . ahhh!! so. . . this afternoon, kaori has been teaching me tosaben, which is the local dialect of japanese . . . similar to hick-english i think. . .haha. . . as long as i stay in kochi-ken, i should be fine. . . hmmm. . .
essentially the same report as always. . . kind people, tons of fun. . . life is good. . . oh, i am going to “light exercise” (aerobics maybe?) tonight with all the middle-aged women in my office. . . ha, am i really at this stage of my life? i hope not, but it’s fun every now and then!
mata ne!
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Hey^^ I think I know what sports festival is, I think it is similar to the ones I had in my junior high. hahaha..
It is really fun to read your post!
Sangmeekuma
Hey Erinn:
So, thought you had slipped off the face of the earth, but finally discovered your blog (really did not know what a blog was). Well you certainly are having unique adventures and don't sound bored at all, but wringing whatever you can out of this challenging experience. I'm glad you hung in there to do this JET program. And you are a very entertaining and talented writer (well we knew that already). School has started- no Erinn visits (sad, sad).
ccenter guy
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