Before the Last Training Day

Ok...

So I haven't posted in a couple of days pretty much because training has been one interesting and busy as fucking hell week. To give the short version of it all, we have been all doing 8 + 1(lunch) hours a day of training, plus another 3-5 hours of homework lesson planning a day. thats 12-14 hours on average. Granted im usually on the lower end of that scale cause im awesome, but its a lot of work.

We have everyday been taught how to lesson plan and teach a new age group type of class, and every following day we have had to lesson plan for the previous + new group so our schedules looked like this:

Tuesday -  learnt 2-6yo lesson plan [LP] (probably the most common age group from my school)
Wednesday - Taught 2-6 LP, learnt 6-12 LP
Thursday - Taught 6-12 LP, Taught 2-6 LP learnt 12-15 LP
Friday- Taught 12-15 LP, Taught 6-12 LP, learnt Baby LP (6mth - 2 years... i know right)
Saturday (today and still to come) - Teach 2-6 LP to a real Japanese class, Teach Baby LP, Teach 12-15 LP.

To make it easier, we weren't doing new LP's when we repeated a age group, but instead improving on the ones that we taught before and redoing them. But each new LP included new props, new sequencing, and new stresses. Again nothing unexpected, but it was a lot of long days and a fair bit of vending machine coffee (which you can get hot or cold out of the machine).

Which leads me to today. Today we are about to teach out first set of real Japanese kids using the very first lesson plan we started on Tuesday. So we've been critiqued, we had our corrections and now we get to test and apply.. YAY!... wait sorry im in Japan.. YATTA!!

So thats all you get for now, I'm carrying my camera to training today to get some pre and post stress pics and to hopefully sneak a pic of the kids I'll be teaching. Till then .. :p


Steve.