Kate’s Quests

I had class last night and while correcting my kids homework I came across some interesting sentences. They have to copy sentences into their notebook from their folder. The sentences were: He was helping Grandma. She was listening to the radio. They were cooking supper. And in one student’s notebook, I got: She was listening [...]

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Before I go into the trip, I just wanted to share some picture from the recital! Singing doe-ray-me I love my Kosuke’s face in this one (back row and far right). There are more pictures like this on Flickr with more of my students. I have a ton! Singing and dancing to “Who’s afraid of [...]

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Yesterday the kids at the school I work at had a recital. The thing went all day long and was broken into two halves. Some classes had their part in the first half and some in the second. I had most of my classes in the second half so I hung around for most of [...]

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I had a lesson yesterday afternoon (my favorite lesson) and we were going over some idioms. One of the idioms was “to crack a smile.” I was explaining what crack meant and she was finally understanding me and said, “Oh! Like you have some crap in a glass!” I busted up and explained that the [...]

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Since the English exams were nearing (they were this morning for many of my students) some company gave our school good luck presents for the kids. So the head of the school walked into our classroom about 10 minutes before the students arrived and handed the Japanese teacher and I each a bunch of bananas. [...]

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I met up with Jocelyn yesterday for coffee in Zushi and had a really great time. It’s so rare for me to find someone I really enjoy talking to that’s married to someone in the military. I haven’t had much luck in the past so it’s always nice to confirm that they are actually out [...]

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I had two classes last night and I have to say that these particular classes make me feel very unhelpful. I love the Japanese teacher to death, but she spends so much of the class translating for the kids…I know they’re not really learning anything. When I took the job, I was warned of this. [...]

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OMG. The Jehovah’s Witnesses are stalking me! I have said that I’m not interested. I’ve told them that I’ve done my own exploring and came to my own decisions about God and spirituality and today I turned them away for the the fifth time. The first time the came, I was just surprised to find [...]

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While I was in class last night, the Japanese teacher that I often work with asked me what DJ and I were going to do on Christmas. I explained that we would probably just hang out at home with the kitties. We would have to be asleep fairly early because we have catch a very [...]

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Now I’m teaching classes at a school in Japan and the students are so cute. In one of the classes, the Japanese english teacher hid me behind a blackboard and had the students ask me questions about myself. Then they were to draw me. I did the same for them, but their drawings were much [...]

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