SO! Teaching is weird!! There are a lot of different levels of students and each class is something new. There are somewhere around 800 students that come fairly regularly (within the last 6 months). The school has 14 classrooms which are really just big cubicles with a curvy desk and a bunch of chairs (me + up to four students). So it definitely keeps you on your toes. Japanese is not allowed at any time, so with the lower level students you start to feel like Tarzan and Jane. Throw in some hand signals (‘square’, ‘next to’) and you’ll feel like a moron in no time. I’m already complaining that my intelligence level has fallen since arriving. :) But, it’s pretty fun. You just try to make people laugh and not make it a boring lesson….. I’ll try to take some pictures of the school so you can get a better idea of what it all looks like.
Answer to a popular question: I do NOT sleep on the floor. ;-) Those are tatami mats, and then i have a foam mat (2″ thick) and then a futon mattress that’s maybe 3″ thick that I sleep on top of. I’ll have to take a picture of the whole shebang…..
What a relief, thought for sure since you were the newest person to move in that you’d gotten the floor to sleep on!
Keep on having fun with the classes and laugh as much as possible. Dad