Anxiety Ridden

I really need to learn how to relax. This job is stressing me out. Teaching English is stressing me out--this is supposed to be one of the easiest jobs in the world!! I love my all-girls school and my commercial high school is all right, but my technical high school drives me crazy. It's like I'm in Dangerous Minds, except I can't even understand the rude comments that the students are saying. It's bad because I'm supposed to be an ASSISTANT teacher, but the teachers at that school just make me run the whole class so they can take a break. I guess they deserve a break considering they work at this school full-time, but still--I was hoping to have a really easy and mindless job for a year!

On the bright side, there's only 3 more days until Adamski is here!!! I'm so excited and anxious that I can't sleep. Time is gonna fly, and I'm already dreading having to say goodbye again. It's gonna be 10 short days together, after 2 long months apart...

Sleeping Cutie :) 

Mallrat!

Yaaaay, I finally got to go to a real mall yesterday! It was HUGE! Well, it was probably about half the size of Pacific Centre in Vancouver. But still, that's considered pretty big over here. It felt like I was transported back home temporarily. If it wasn't for all the Japanese people walking around, I could've sworn I was in Canada again...

First day of school

School officially started this week. I had my first day of class today. When I did my first presentation, I got NO reaction from the kids whatsoever. They just stared at me blankly--they didn't laugh, talk, or respond in any way. It was a little frustrating, but apparently that's typical when it comes to Japanese students. My second class went a little better. We played a game so the kids were a lot more active.

Tomorrow I have to go to my technical high school, which is 99% boys. I'm a little terrified. Apparently most of the students at this school are delinquents who hate English. Hopefully I won't get harassed too badly...despite the fact that I look like a 12-year-old...

COUNTDOWN UPDATE: TWO MORE WEEKS!!!