EXHAUSTED, but good!
Up at 7:00 this morning.... SEVEN! EEEEEK!!!!!! I am NOT a morning person... If you can't tell.
Left at 7:30 for school. Grandma's friend who volunteers at the school (I think...) went with me. She stayed the whole day, which was both kind of weird and kind of nice. There's a group of girls, seems like a nice group, that accepted me in almost immediately. We played dodge ball together in PE... And they ate lunch with me, and helped me understand what was going on. Good stuff. We played freeze tag after lunch too.... Even the teacher played. :p I like our teacher. She's really nice.
Today they had a kanji test.... I kind of jokingly tried it.... Which was good (that it was jokingly), because I couldn't answer anything. :p Then they went to the computer lab for a while, where I was given permission basically to roam the web... Man, those computers were painfully slow. It was awful. But hey.... I'll live. I have this connection here (at the house), so not a problem. After that was PE, where we played dodge ball, jumped rope, played basketball, then played dodge ball again. Quite a wide arrangement of things. Then it was back upstairs for math... Now THAT was talking my language! And best of all, FRACTIONS! I love fractions.... So I did the work, just because I love fractions. :p
After that was lunch... Yay for lunch! It was good too. Bread with chocolate spread stuff, salad (with cheese in it! And ham!), and stew.... It was really good! :) Then we went outside and played tag. And then it was back inside, for a time of the day that truly amazed me.....
This is why Japanese have such better work ethic than Americans. They're raised with it. After going outside, we came back in and CLEANED. Yes, the students clean the school. They don't need janitors.... They use a resource already at hand. The STUDENTS! And you know what? I liked it. There was something kind of gratifying about it... I'm not sure what. Something about being on the floor, in-between flights of stairs.... And having people walk past and apologize for walking on the cleaned area.... There was something oddly gratifying about that. It helped that a little kid suddenly said "Kiree!" when they saw the part that I cleaned... That means "clean" or "pretty".... That made me laugh, and feel good at the same time.
After cleaning, the 6th graders did calligraphy... And I gained the strange roll of assistant English teacher. My teacher (6th grade teacher) is also the English teacher, so she invited me to join her instead of doing Japanese calligraphy... I also helped in an English class on Wednesday, so I went ahead and did it again... Man, those 4th graders were scary. Todays group was really rowdy! They seemed very... Excited, I guess. That was insane.... They were all standing up and yelling at me to throw the ball their way.... The ball was to give them permission to come up to the board and answer the question. I got so confused I just started throwing it and letting whoever gets it get it.... Not trying for a specific person.
After that, I went home... I was TIRED! But still, I was happy. I agreed to start going every day but Tuesdays. Tuesdays are my Japanese class at that place in Kimitsu.......
So I got home about 3:00... And Yuutaro wanted to play MarbleBlast Gold (the Apple game... He's basically addicted to it), so I let him... And I showed him my Chiba zoo pictures (they WILL get on here eventually). Then we had dinner (tonkatsu sandwich)... And grandma and me got ready to go to a think known as Dondonyaki, I think.... Yeah. Just googled it... :p Anyway, essentially it's a big fire. It's more significant than that, but you know me... To me it was a big fire. We were being picked up, and so we did that... Went there, ate some soba and a sausage (a GOOD sausage!!!! I'm so American.... But I didn't have it with ketchup!). Then went to watch the big fire... I got some great pictures that will also get on here eventually.... But it was windy, so the fire never made it up to the top of the thing they were burning (tall tall thing).... Flames were still taller than me (A LOT taller... It was huge!), but it never made it to the top... Oh well. It was still awesome. Very very cold though... That wind takes all the warmth right out of you!
So after the big big fire, we had some yakitori, stood by a small fire (in a barrel... With holes in it), and ate stuff.... Then we came back home. I took my bath, and now here I am.
Long day, and I'm exhausted. Tomorrow I'm going to a potluck... The place I go for my Japanese class is having a potluck...
Left at 7:30 for school. Grandma's friend who volunteers at the school (I think...) went with me. She stayed the whole day, which was both kind of weird and kind of nice. There's a group of girls, seems like a nice group, that accepted me in almost immediately. We played dodge ball together in PE... And they ate lunch with me, and helped me understand what was going on. Good stuff. We played freeze tag after lunch too.... Even the teacher played. :p I like our teacher. She's really nice.
Today they had a kanji test.... I kind of jokingly tried it.... Which was good (that it was jokingly), because I couldn't answer anything. :p Then they went to the computer lab for a while, where I was given permission basically to roam the web... Man, those computers were painfully slow. It was awful. But hey.... I'll live. I have this connection here (at the house), so not a problem. After that was PE, where we played dodge ball, jumped rope, played basketball, then played dodge ball again. Quite a wide arrangement of things. Then it was back upstairs for math... Now THAT was talking my language! And best of all, FRACTIONS! I love fractions.... So I did the work, just because I love fractions. :p
After that was lunch... Yay for lunch! It was good too. Bread with chocolate spread stuff, salad (with cheese in it! And ham!), and stew.... It was really good! :) Then we went outside and played tag. And then it was back inside, for a time of the day that truly amazed me.....
This is why Japanese have such better work ethic than Americans. They're raised with it. After going outside, we came back in and CLEANED. Yes, the students clean the school. They don't need janitors.... They use a resource already at hand. The STUDENTS! And you know what? I liked it. There was something kind of gratifying about it... I'm not sure what. Something about being on the floor, in-between flights of stairs.... And having people walk past and apologize for walking on the cleaned area.... There was something oddly gratifying about that. It helped that a little kid suddenly said "Kiree!" when they saw the part that I cleaned... That means "clean" or "pretty".... That made me laugh, and feel good at the same time.
After cleaning, the 6th graders did calligraphy... And I gained the strange roll of assistant English teacher. My teacher (6th grade teacher) is also the English teacher, so she invited me to join her instead of doing Japanese calligraphy... I also helped in an English class on Wednesday, so I went ahead and did it again... Man, those 4th graders were scary. Todays group was really rowdy! They seemed very... Excited, I guess. That was insane.... They were all standing up and yelling at me to throw the ball their way.... The ball was to give them permission to come up to the board and answer the question. I got so confused I just started throwing it and letting whoever gets it get it.... Not trying for a specific person.
After that, I went home... I was TIRED! But still, I was happy. I agreed to start going every day but Tuesdays. Tuesdays are my Japanese class at that place in Kimitsu.......
So I got home about 3:00... And Yuutaro wanted to play MarbleBlast Gold (the Apple game... He's basically addicted to it), so I let him... And I showed him my Chiba zoo pictures (they WILL get on here eventually). Then we had dinner (tonkatsu sandwich)... And grandma and me got ready to go to a think known as Dondonyaki, I think.... Yeah. Just googled it... :p Anyway, essentially it's a big fire. It's more significant than that, but you know me... To me it was a big fire. We were being picked up, and so we did that... Went there, ate some soba and a sausage (a GOOD sausage!!!! I'm so American.... But I didn't have it with ketchup!). Then went to watch the big fire... I got some great pictures that will also get on here eventually.... But it was windy, so the fire never made it up to the top of the thing they were burning (tall tall thing).... Flames were still taller than me (A LOT taller... It was huge!), but it never made it to the top... Oh well. It was still awesome. Very very cold though... That wind takes all the warmth right out of you!
So after the big big fire, we had some yakitori, stood by a small fire (in a barrel... With holes in it), and ate stuff.... Then we came back home. I took my bath, and now here I am.
Long day, and I'm exhausted. Tomorrow I'm going to a potluck... The place I go for my Japanese class is having a potluck...
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