Photobucket

So i've also updated my photobucket. If you people want to see some more pics and a few videos of my little vacation just go to the link under My Photos on the side --->
or go to the bottom of the page .

enjoy ^^

Little vacation

We had a nice three day weekend so instead of just going into the city and shopping me and Rebecca went to Niijima Island ^_^
A three day camping trip on a nice little island off of Tokyo bay...with a 8 hr ferry ride sleeping on a deck.-_-
It was nice, people having little picnic parties, i brought vodka, some one else had juice, some had snacks. We meet some nice Japanese people on this trip who were really kind and helpful throughout the whole trip.

We played on the beach, got sunburned. Went snorkeling(another FIRST) the next day, i burnt my back. oh good burning times ^^ the onsen was beautiful and the water felt great both at the beach and in the onsen. We were able to meet a lot of great people from around the world (the group that we went on the trip with is called "Tokyo Gaijins") but don't know if we'll ever see them again.

I had fun during the trip but at the same time i didn't enjoy the whole experience.
I was eaten alive by mosquito, they just loved me. We had a cramp small tent, my ass was hurting from the bike we had to ride around in for the three days ( i haven't ridden a bike for like more than 5 yrs). My bag was heavy and had to put the straps on my burnt shoulders which made them a nice raw skin color.
other than that i had fun and would luv to go snorkeling again and hiking....just stay in a cabin or even hotel next time.
Well here's some pics of the island.

first week of class

So my first day at school i gave my self-introductory,one to the office staff and then in front of the students. after that i did nothing all day. ok thats a lie, i looked thru all the stuff that was on my desk.

After that i've been a human tape recorder ^_^ YAY!....-_- this makes the first half of the class kinda boring. in the last 10 minuets of class we get to sing a song. if i know the song the teacher has me first do a run thru of the songs words and then makes me sing them with them repeating after me. after that we sing the song along with he music. thats like the best time of the class.

other than that i'm sometimes asked to play a game with the students to go along with the lesson plan. now those can get out of hand once the kids get a hand of it especially if it's getting them out of there seats.

this is all with just the jr high kids.

now with the elementary school, the head teacher tells me what he wants me to teach the kids for the week and i have to make up a lesson plan for that. so far this has consisted of greetings, flash cards of the lesson and then a game to follow that. I love going to the elementary school since they're more energetic play also they're so freakin cute you just want to hug them ^^

Typhoon

ok so I was going to talk about my first week teaching but not anymore.

I am currently at the tip of a typhoon YAY :D
I'm so lucky, my first big storm.
This year will have a lot of first times for me ^^

The storm will really hit us (Gunma prefecture) around 9am tomorrow but we won't be under the eye of the storm. There really hasn't been any big announcements... well there has been announcements i just can't understand them. The last one they made is about the tv going out, but thats ok I got the good old internet to entertain me ^_^

So I got let out of school early since I don't have a car and have to take the school bus home (yes i take the bus with most of the students so I get to go home earlier than the other teachers^^) all due to the storm, even though it wasn't that bad yet.

I got back to my part of the town, so I decided to go to the bank just so i have some cash on me (this is a cash based society, not much for cards here) and to one of the local stores. I bought a few things and a pair of rain boots and i'm kinda glad i did now. While i was in the store the clerk took out the town hall's type of monthly paper which had a picture of me and a introduction( i've been doing A LOT of these) that i wrote when i first got here. She kept pointing at it and trying to talk to me. The only thing I understood was how this is my second time here in Japan. As i started walking home, thats when started pouring, a few minutes after i got into the house it REALLY started raining hard.

A couple of hours after I got home the English teacher that i team teach with called me to inform me that there would be no school tomorrow. YES my first time staying home from school because of the weather!

So yes a big storm is a comin'...kinda here already cuz it's getting hella loud out there. the wind is REALLY picking up and it's starting to rain a lot harder now. Tomorrow will be a lot worse thats for sure.

I'll talk about my first week in school once I get the pictures downloaded from my camera.

oh, the power just went out for a bit, kinda used to that back home ^^
good thing i had a candle burning just in case it did.
i wasn't that upset about the light, i was upset cuz i had no more internet :(
But it's ok now, we got POWER hahahahaha, i'm going to get ready for bed now...or make some somores ^_^

Ja nee.

here are before and after pics of the river in my town