Thats me in my suit on my first day of work. Looking good, eh?Again this is mostly copypasta'd from an email to my parents. Oh well. Original content soon to come Im sure.
Afew days later (long weekend due to monday being a national holiday) I started work in Oji. There is nothing more nerve racking than getting up infront a class of Japanese kids, who cant stop staring at the only foreigner in the room, and then introducing yourself. Once the introductions over you feel slightly relieved but then come the questions, and I guarantee atleast one girl in every class will get bullied by her classmates into asking if you have a girlfriend, which the rest of the class find hilarious. My 3-1 class also seem to find it hilarious that I look like 2 people in their year, which meant that they started going crazy part of the way through my introduction - I didnt know what the hell was going on, or how to control them so I just kind of stood there looking embarassed. Essentially most of my lessons, apart from the PTA class and the ex-PTA class, are team teaching where Im just an assistant to help with marking, to read things out or talk to them in english etc. Just to add on about teaching, my 1-7 (i think they were 1-7) are apparently amazing at noticing look-a-likes so three girls in the back were quick to point out that I look like Buzz Lightyear which is my new nickname (only with those 3 though, luckily the rumour hasnt spread to the rest of the class - athough Barney-sensei seems to find it amusing).
A few pictures to make this post a bit more interesting:
LtoR: Me, Mike, Kuni, Wakana, Matsuya?, Lynsey, Erling, Tom
LtoR: Erling, Matt, Me, Hina, Yumi
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