Hey guys,
Ok so today was the first day of actual training, and its
seems like the vacation is over. We started at 10am, but in Japanese time, that
is really 9:45am. Myself and Derek, the other NET in training got there a
little early just to be safe, and we found an empty lobby room with shelves of
indoor slippers, all bright aqua blue, or sea green, the perfect compliment to
any black suit. Anyway the girls showed up shortly after, we all waited maybe a
minute or 2 and then our trainer Rachael came down to greet us.
And then it began...
So Personally I didn't find training day1 too bad. We are
supposed to be overwhelmed, we are supposed to make mistakes and we are supposed
to fuck it up. So I tried to keep a calm head about it and take it all in, and
go from there. Basically for the first day we found ourselves learning the
basic body of the lesson, how to prepare, and whats expected during. We learnt
and sang songs, and there are songs for everything! "Up up up up up stand
up!" and the other most common, "Down down down down down Sit
Down!"
Anyway the day went on, we were given chances to practice
each section of the lesson ourselves with feedback from the trainers. The
material itself isn't the hard part because that's already provided, it's the
conviewing of it in the order that we are supposed to that is probably the
hardest, But that will come with practice because it seems every lesson section
follows a pretty simple formula. And I assume that all the other lessens for
the other age groups with be somewhat similar. That being said, lesson planning
that's a long long time to do, especially when you've never really done it.
This I think is where most of us will feel the actual stress. But hey, others
have gotten through and so will we. :)
Anyway That's my update.
(PS go to the flickr so see pictures of Okayama castle, from the day before)
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