Whappenin’…

Teaching
Exactly 9 weeks till I’ll be back home.  I think it’s sort of changed my outlook on things now that there are only two months left.  Even since April, the start of the new school year, I went into it with a different mentality.  I have so few lessons with each class so why not just have fun with the kids.  It’s not like I can actually teach them anything really.  Their level is so low that it’s most beneficial just to get them used to hearing English much less have to use it.  I used to get stressed if I couldn’t get through my whole lesson (feeling pressured by the JTE) but now I could really care less.  I would rather the kids retain 80% of the shortened lesson than 25% of the entire rushed lesson.  If I could speak Japanese and if we didn’t have to teach with a JTE I think it would be so much fun. 

Sports Day
Today was Sports Day at my base school.  I’ll upload pictures to Facebook soon.  Basically they had a bunch of events like the 100m, 1000m for girls, 1500m for boys, an obstacle race (consisting of running a bit, doing 2 somersaults, running some more, crawling under a net, more running, grabbing a snack hanging from a pole with your teeth, then running to the finish line), 4×100m relay, a typhoon relay, “centipede relay”, tug-o-war and jump rope.  It was really entertaining to watch but the weather wasn’t great.   The teachers took part in a few events so I did the 4×100m relay with them.  We ended up having 8 people because they didn’t feel like running the full 100m so each teacher ran 50m.  We finished last.  It was kind of funny because the guy that was supposed to pass me the baton ended up just running past me like 10m and he had to turn back when everyone was yelling.
Before the race, one of the teachers said to me, “warming up,” which I took to mean as, “you should start warming up.”  It reminded me of HIMYM where Barney says, “you don’t train for a marathon, you just run it.”  I stretched a little, sprinted my 50m, and thought, “wow, I’m not even breathing hard or sweating or anything.”  So I failed to stretch afterwards.  I got home and sat down in front of the computer.  Five minutes later I tried to get up and my quads were cramping like crazy!  Hahaha.  My first thought was, “WOW! It’s Barney-syndrome,” where his legs didn’t work after the marathon.  Lesson learned.

Weekends
9 weekends left and I think I’ve made plans for about half of them.  It’s still kind of hard to get out on weekends with the weather being the way it is and it won’t get any better as June is tsuyu or the rainy season.  It rains pretty much everyday for a month, so I’ve heard. 

Pharmacy
One more month until I hear from them.  *Fingers crossed*