So the day started off with myself and the other NETs (native english teachers) waiting in our respective group rooms for the kids to arrive. We had about 6-7 come, so each group of us had 2 kids to demonstrated our lesson plans. My group had Sota a 5ish year old boy, and Tomoko a 5-6 yo girl...
Now we were warned that Sota was a little shy and is usually very unresponsive to new people. And boy oh boy was he unresponsive. CUTE ....but unresponsive. He sat quietly in his own world for the 1½ hours. Tomoko on the other hand was very talkative, and engaging. She surprised us all during our demonstrations, and was soo super cute!!
So it was really good to work with the children cause we were forced to simplify our language, we had to use our gestures and at the end of the day... we taught those kids! :-D
so that was the first lesson, we had 2 more to do, both of which where with our peers roleplaying the students. The 1st of the 2 was a Baby class, and I can safely say I was one hot mess! I was completely unprepared firstly, but that was because most of the night was spent prepping for the 1st demo with the kids. Secondly I was having one of those moments where everything that could, would go wrong. So I got'er done, and that was that. The 3rd Lesson was a repeat lesson of the Junior High lesson. That one went really well, and flowed smoothly. I was pleased with that one. And the feedback we received afterwards was pretty positive :)
So the rest of the day included business talk, scheduling and final wrap ups.... So my 1st class of the week will be a Baby and Mommy class >_< im a little nervous. lol
After we ended for the day, we where taken to diner by our trainers, and then we all went to Karaoke, karaoke was good and it was nice to have a last night with everyone. I left a bit early cause i was hitting my exhaustion point, but we all had a good time :)
and now I'm off once again, things packed up and ready to go on the train to my new apartment in Kobe Itayado,
Okayama it was fun,
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