March 30th 2011

I have been having a hard time with my new contract. My new co-teachers have poor English ability so it is hard for me to communicate with them. I decided I am just going to have to review the rules each day until the kids can repeat them verbatim. I have been doing it for about a week and so far it has been working great. Maybe I will make it after all.

Some funny stories from today:

A student asked me"Oh teacher!!!! Do you like Pokemon?" "Yes?" I replied. "What is this Pokemons name in English" He asks as he holds up Pokemon shaped eraser. I take a closer look and have no idea. "Come on" I say as I sit down at my computer, "Let's find out". It ended up being one I had never heard of: "Munchlax". Turns out it is a baby Snorelax... Weird I had no idea. Also I told him I would trade Pokemon with him. Amusing.

A student violated class rule #6: "no Justin Beiber" when she put a picture of him on the board. So I ran screaming from the back of the room to the front, grabbed the picture off the board and ate it. Yum. Ok, So I did not eat it, only put it in my mouth and chewed on it a bit. My class laughed hysterically and it got their attention which seemed to be fixed on me (magically?) for the whole class, I should eat more Justin Beiber more often.

also a kid fell asleep 2nd period and every one thought I was going to wake him up mean but I just placed my hand on his shoulder and woke him up nice. I don't know why he is falling asleep, he could have issues at home but I told him "No Startcraft or Maple Story after 10pm."

that was my day. The end.