It seems I got behind again.
Nice job Emi (emphasis on the sarcasm)....
Alright... I posted on Monday, but just my old pictures.... Nothing about Monday itself....
So, Monday. Everything was pretty normal. Up, go to school, come home, waste time. A normal day. See?
So, a bit more into what we did at school on Monday... It is our week to do volunteer stuff in the morning, so I helped sweep the walkway when I got there. I see a lot of irony in calling it "volunteer" work when we're assigned a week to do it.
Then I worked on my Japanese stuff while the rest of the class switched seats and stuff.
Then we made sandwiches. That's right, we made sandwiches. We made some for teachers, then we made some for ourselves. They were good too. There was ham, cheese, egg salad, tuna, and butter.... So we got to mix and match with that a bit.
It shouldn't be a surprise that after we MADE sandwiches, we ATE sandwiches! :) Yes, we ate our sandwiches for lunch. Along with some soup (as always), some strawberries, and some cake. That was a good lunch..... :)
After that, our usual after-lunch free time.... Where many people in the class practiced jump roping. The contest was after cleaning, so it was their last minute practice.
Then, of course, cleaning. I'm cleaning the 2nd floor bathrooms again.... Wiping the floor and all that. It's not too bad.
And finally..... The contest. Competition... Whatever. The 6th grade jump rope competition! They had the long jump ropes, the kind two people turn while other people jump. One for each class, of course. Two people did the rope thing (whatever the proper term would be...) while the rest of the class ran through.... The point was to get as many people as possible through in 3 minutes..... Then another 3 minutes.... Then another 3 minutes. There were short breaks in-between. Add the three totals together, and whoever has the highest number wins.
Class 6-4 got 211, 224, then 238, which gave us a total of 673.... Over 100 less than the 3rd place class, who got 780..... Obviously jump roping is not this class' strong point.... And I wasn't even trying... Yikes!
So that was a sad time for 6-4.... Not that we expected anything better, but still.
Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday. I kind of like Tuesdays, because they're extremely easy to blog about. The only thing worth mentioning is Japanese class at KIES. I'm not usually to fond of Tuesday classes..... I usually have a lot of trouble following what's going on. Yesterday was good though. I think I got it all OK.
By the way, Chinese really confuses me. Everyone else in the Tuesday class (yesterday, anyway) is Chinese, so I heard quite a bit of it.... And I was so so so confused. I'm glad I don't have a reason to learn Chinese.... Just trying to differentiate sounds made me confused.
The rest of the day I just did, well, nothing worth mentioning. Computer, mostly.... I coded the transcript of the second Matthew West chat for TOUMWS, but probably no one who reads this cares..... Unless someone from the MW boards actually followed my link.... I know one person did, though I don't know if she's still reading... If so, hi froggie! :p
Today. Yes, today. Started off normal.... Wake up, eat stuff, go to school. Did the "volunteer" stuff, did some Japanese, then, to be totally honest, was bored...... A Jr. High teacher came (because the 6th graders will be gaduating next week) and talked about, well, I can't totally be sure.... But I was told it was about cell phones and dangerous stuff on cell phones or something..... I'm guessing they're talking about inappropriate sites and all that. Of course it was all in Japanese, and didn't really matter to me anyway, because I wont be going to Jr. High here.
Then we went to the gym... The 6th graders practiced some stuff for their graduation ceremony.... I sat and watched, and probably got in the way, though no one said anything (except for when they asked me to move my chair forwards a little). They sat up straight, stood up straight, sat up straight... Lots of that stuff that would make a lazy American like me tired. :p Then they practiced going on stage, receiving the graduation diploma thingy, bowing, then going off stage...... Every single one of them, one at a time. Then they did some more sitting/standing/whatever stuff..... And bowing. And reading a thing. I just sat there, and may or may not have been getting in the way.
After that was done, finally, we went back to the classroom. I did a bit more Japanese, then it was lunch time. I don't entirely know what we ate, but it was food.... And that's what matters to me. :p
After lunch we immediately went to cleaning. I helped clean the 2nd floor bathroom again, of course.
Then, it was an early release! Yay! We got ready to go, and were FREED! :p
Well, except for one thing..... I was told to walk home with the kids today. No one was home, and I am the only one of us with a key. It's true that I was the first out, and could VERY easily have been home to let them in, but I had already agreed to wait.... So wait I did. And wait, and wait, and wait. They must have been let out 15 or 20 minutes later than me. In that time I stood by the gate, waiting. Lots of random people said hello (or konnichiwa, and sometimes sayoonara) to me.... Later I was surrounded by 1st graders again.... Maybe some other grades too. I can't really tell. They all tried to talk to me.... And some just stared. One kid just kept looking up at me with wide eyes and his mouth wide open.... It was hard not to laugh.
Finally Nanako and her friends showed up, and a minute or two later, Yuutaro. We walked home, and I still had a couple kids attempting communication. :p I'm sure it's good for me and all that.... I know. It is also moderately annoying, though more than that, funny.
Finally we got home, and with my key were able to get in no problem. I off course headed to my computer.... Later accompanied by a thing of Mother Farm ice cream! Yum! Tomoko got home around 5:00, and thanked me for being able to let us all in.......
Then at 5:30 we all left. Tomoko, Nanako, Yuutaro, and me. We went to Nana's swim practice.... Yuutaro and I mostly played games the whole time, but that's OK. ;) After that we went to dinner.... Yum. Dinner. I ate a pizza (seafood pizza!) and a plate of fries.... Probably not a WHOLE plate because we got an order to share, and then we also got some other side orders that also came with fries.... But there were lots of fries, anyway.
It was about 9:15 when we got home.... I took a quick shower, then came back here to my computer... Grandma got home not long after I finished my shower.
So that's about it.... Oh and today was hot! I wore my sweatshirt in the morning, but took it off while we were in the gym.... Had my "History Maker" T-shirt on... :p It wasn't HOT really... It was warm, and VERY nice. I was wearing all black though (no, I am not "gothic"... My random choices sometimes end this way), so it got hot for me sometimes.
People seemed to have trouble believing I wasn't cold.... Especially in the evening. It got a bit chilly in the evening, but we weren't outside long enough to make putting on a sweatshirt worth it, so I didn't bother. It wasn't that chilly anyway.
Alright... I posted on Monday, but just my old pictures.... Nothing about Monday itself....
So, Monday. Everything was pretty normal. Up, go to school, come home, waste time. A normal day. See?
So, a bit more into what we did at school on Monday... It is our week to do volunteer stuff in the morning, so I helped sweep the walkway when I got there. I see a lot of irony in calling it "volunteer" work when we're assigned a week to do it.
Then I worked on my Japanese stuff while the rest of the class switched seats and stuff.
Then we made sandwiches. That's right, we made sandwiches. We made some for teachers, then we made some for ourselves. They were good too. There was ham, cheese, egg salad, tuna, and butter.... So we got to mix and match with that a bit.
It shouldn't be a surprise that after we MADE sandwiches, we ATE sandwiches! :) Yes, we ate our sandwiches for lunch. Along with some soup (as always), some strawberries, and some cake. That was a good lunch..... :)
After that, our usual after-lunch free time.... Where many people in the class practiced jump roping. The contest was after cleaning, so it was their last minute practice.
Then, of course, cleaning. I'm cleaning the 2nd floor bathrooms again.... Wiping the floor and all that. It's not too bad.
And finally..... The contest. Competition... Whatever. The 6th grade jump rope competition! They had the long jump ropes, the kind two people turn while other people jump. One for each class, of course. Two people did the rope thing (whatever the proper term would be...) while the rest of the class ran through.... The point was to get as many people as possible through in 3 minutes..... Then another 3 minutes.... Then another 3 minutes. There were short breaks in-between. Add the three totals together, and whoever has the highest number wins.
Class 6-4 got 211, 224, then 238, which gave us a total of 673.... Over 100 less than the 3rd place class, who got 780..... Obviously jump roping is not this class' strong point.... And I wasn't even trying... Yikes!
So that was a sad time for 6-4.... Not that we expected anything better, but still.
Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday. I kind of like Tuesdays, because they're extremely easy to blog about. The only thing worth mentioning is Japanese class at KIES. I'm not usually to fond of Tuesday classes..... I usually have a lot of trouble following what's going on. Yesterday was good though. I think I got it all OK.
By the way, Chinese really confuses me. Everyone else in the Tuesday class (yesterday, anyway) is Chinese, so I heard quite a bit of it.... And I was so so so confused. I'm glad I don't have a reason to learn Chinese.... Just trying to differentiate sounds made me confused.
The rest of the day I just did, well, nothing worth mentioning. Computer, mostly.... I coded the transcript of the second Matthew West chat for TOUMWS, but probably no one who reads this cares..... Unless someone from the MW boards actually followed my link.... I know one person did, though I don't know if she's still reading... If so, hi froggie! :p
Today. Yes, today. Started off normal.... Wake up, eat stuff, go to school. Did the "volunteer" stuff, did some Japanese, then, to be totally honest, was bored...... A Jr. High teacher came (because the 6th graders will be gaduating next week) and talked about, well, I can't totally be sure.... But I was told it was about cell phones and dangerous stuff on cell phones or something..... I'm guessing they're talking about inappropriate sites and all that. Of course it was all in Japanese, and didn't really matter to me anyway, because I wont be going to Jr. High here.
Then we went to the gym... The 6th graders practiced some stuff for their graduation ceremony.... I sat and watched, and probably got in the way, though no one said anything (except for when they asked me to move my chair forwards a little). They sat up straight, stood up straight, sat up straight... Lots of that stuff that would make a lazy American like me tired. :p Then they practiced going on stage, receiving the graduation diploma thingy, bowing, then going off stage...... Every single one of them, one at a time. Then they did some more sitting/standing/whatever stuff..... And bowing. And reading a thing. I just sat there, and may or may not have been getting in the way.
After that was done, finally, we went back to the classroom. I did a bit more Japanese, then it was lunch time. I don't entirely know what we ate, but it was food.... And that's what matters to me. :p
After lunch we immediately went to cleaning. I helped clean the 2nd floor bathroom again, of course.
Then, it was an early release! Yay! We got ready to go, and were FREED! :p
Well, except for one thing..... I was told to walk home with the kids today. No one was home, and I am the only one of us with a key. It's true that I was the first out, and could VERY easily have been home to let them in, but I had already agreed to wait.... So wait I did. And wait, and wait, and wait. They must have been let out 15 or 20 minutes later than me. In that time I stood by the gate, waiting. Lots of random people said hello (or konnichiwa, and sometimes sayoonara) to me.... Later I was surrounded by 1st graders again.... Maybe some other grades too. I can't really tell. They all tried to talk to me.... And some just stared. One kid just kept looking up at me with wide eyes and his mouth wide open.... It was hard not to laugh.
Finally Nanako and her friends showed up, and a minute or two later, Yuutaro. We walked home, and I still had a couple kids attempting communication. :p I'm sure it's good for me and all that.... I know. It is also moderately annoying, though more than that, funny.
Finally we got home, and with my key were able to get in no problem. I off course headed to my computer.... Later accompanied by a thing of Mother Farm ice cream! Yum! Tomoko got home around 5:00, and thanked me for being able to let us all in.......
Then at 5:30 we all left. Tomoko, Nanako, Yuutaro, and me. We went to Nana's swim practice.... Yuutaro and I mostly played games the whole time, but that's OK. ;) After that we went to dinner.... Yum. Dinner. I ate a pizza (seafood pizza!) and a plate of fries.... Probably not a WHOLE plate because we got an order to share, and then we also got some other side orders that also came with fries.... But there were lots of fries, anyway.
It was about 9:15 when we got home.... I took a quick shower, then came back here to my computer... Grandma got home not long after I finished my shower.
So that's about it.... Oh and today was hot! I wore my sweatshirt in the morning, but took it off while we were in the gym.... Had my "History Maker" T-shirt on... :p It wasn't HOT really... It was warm, and VERY nice. I was wearing all black though (no, I am not "gothic"... My random choices sometimes end this way), so it got hot for me sometimes.
People seemed to have trouble believing I wasn't cold.... Especially in the evening. It got a bit chilly in the evening, but we weren't outside long enough to make putting on a sweatshirt worth it, so I didn't bother. It wasn't that chilly anyway.
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