Day 202 { Japanese Classroom Management / More Karaoke } - Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Day 202 { Japanese Classroom Management / More Karaoke }
I almost got to my Tuesday school late again, because of my seemingly irresistance to the internet in the morning.
The grade 6 class at this school is probably my worst class out of all the 5 schools I teach at. There are especially 2 male kids that continually disturb the class and seem not to care about what is going on. The teacher for this class is so soft that the kids don't even take him seriously. He will be telling them to shhhh and all they do is laugh and sometime make fun of him. I remember at one point when the teacher was trying to get this guy to keep quiet, and all the kid did was attempt to stick the teacher with a pin... hmmm ....
I almost got to my Tuesday school late again, because of my seemingly irresistance to the internet in the morning.
The grade 6 class at this school is probably my worst class out of all the 5 schools I teach at. There are especially 2 male kids that continually disturb the class and seem not to care about what is going on. The teacher for this class is so soft that the kids don't even take him seriously. He will be telling them to shhhh and all they do is laugh and sometime make fun of him. I remember at one point when the teacher was trying to get this guy to keep quiet, and all the kid did was attempt to stick the teacher with a pin... hmmm ....
This kinda thing angers me but what can I do? Absolutely nothing but either continue teaching or keep quiet myself. This is because the Japanese school system allow the kids to pretty much do what they want, fortunately, most of the kids are very well disciplined. But there are however a few bad eggs, like the ones in the 6 grade class at my Tuesday school. This is the only school I have this type of problem with. There are a couple schools here though where I heard that there are some seriously suicidal kids and some other kids who run around and behave crazy. But the ALTs have to just sit and watch, we can't do anything, and many times, the teachers don't do a thing about it.... It's not our place to do or suggest anything so we have to just stand off. This is just the Japanese way of doing their thing...
The few grade 6 kids at my Tuesday school are are not extremely terrible, but they are very disruptive. The other thing about this class is that, it seem as if all the girls and all the boys are in some sort of malice. I heard thats what happen most times though as soon as they get to grade 6 and onwards to Jr. High School and high school. Its as if the girls and the boys are arch enemies. I was trying to get this group of grade 6 girls and boys together to play a game; and it was like trying to book a ticket to mars on air Jamaica or like trying to get Bush and Bin Laden to discuss politics over coffee. It just wasn't happening.
So again after I taught the 3 classes, I was bored... So I went to run around with the kids in the gym then read some interesting blogs.
I then went home, after which me and my land lord went to dinner. Athough my landlord is this really cool guy, he can get extremely annoying and stupid when he is drunk. At the first restaurant he brought me to, the lady who owned the restaurant wanted to touch me hair, so I gave her the go ahead. It was the first time she was touching a black man's hair and she is probably about 65. After this, my landlord in his druken state suddenly felt like touching my adam's apple and occationally sticking my arm with this pointed iron knife looking thing???? We then linked up with one of his other friends and we went to a small karaoke bar. I realise that I actually enjoy doing this karaoke thing more than I initially thought. The choice of songs were somewhat limited, so I sang or attempted to sing the following songs:
ルーキーズ オリジナル動画を作ってみた (shiawase desuto)by Greeeen
How you remind me by Nickel back
Banana Boat song by Harry Belafonte
It was fun and the other Japanese there, espcially liked the Banana Boat song and Boombastic. They also hailed my attempt at the first 2 Japanese songs, but laughed when they noticed I was simply trying to pronounce the hiragana and katakana characters that pop up on the screen. When I see one I recognise, I say it very loud ;) and the rest is just mumblings along side some very rich, sophisticated, profound CRAP!!! ..... Apparently because my eyes are humongous (thanks to my Dad), granting me wonderful aliases in the past like "Public eye" and "bulby"; they (my eyes) supposedly bulge during my singing. While I was singing one of the songs, I noticed my landlord and his friend moving towards me, each with a chop stick, and motioning as if they wanted to stick me in the eye... ahhh bwoyyy!!! How did these men get married???? Or is it that the Japanese girls are just as nuts as them lol... ???
Ok later
The few grade 6 kids at my Tuesday school are are not extremely terrible, but they are very disruptive. The other thing about this class is that, it seem as if all the girls and all the boys are in some sort of malice. I heard thats what happen most times though as soon as they get to grade 6 and onwards to Jr. High School and high school. Its as if the girls and the boys are arch enemies. I was trying to get this group of grade 6 girls and boys together to play a game; and it was like trying to book a ticket to mars on air Jamaica or like trying to get Bush and Bin Laden to discuss politics over coffee. It just wasn't happening.
So again after I taught the 3 classes, I was bored... So I went to run around with the kids in the gym then read some interesting blogs.
I then went home, after which me and my land lord went to dinner. Athough my landlord is this really cool guy, he can get extremely annoying and stupid when he is drunk. At the first restaurant he brought me to, the lady who owned the restaurant wanted to touch me hair, so I gave her the go ahead. It was the first time she was touching a black man's hair and she is probably about 65. After this, my landlord in his druken state suddenly felt like touching my adam's apple and occationally sticking my arm with this pointed iron knife looking thing???? We then linked up with one of his other friends and we went to a small karaoke bar. I realise that I actually enjoy doing this karaoke thing more than I initially thought. The choice of songs were somewhat limited, so I sang or attempted to sing the following songs:
ルーキーズ オリジナル動画を作ってみた (shiawase desuto)by Greeeen
Haruka Kanata by Asian Kung fu Generation
Boombastic by ShaggyHow you remind me by Nickel back
Banana Boat song by Harry Belafonte
It was fun and the other Japanese there, espcially liked the Banana Boat song and Boombastic. They also hailed my attempt at the first 2 Japanese songs, but laughed when they noticed I was simply trying to pronounce the hiragana and katakana characters that pop up on the screen. When I see one I recognise, I say it very loud ;) and the rest is just mumblings along side some very rich, sophisticated, profound CRAP!!! ..... Apparently because my eyes are humongous (thanks to my Dad), granting me wonderful aliases in the past like "Public eye" and "bulby"; they (my eyes) supposedly bulge during my singing. While I was singing one of the songs, I noticed my landlord and his friend moving towards me, each with a chop stick, and motioning as if they wanted to stick me in the eye... ahhh bwoyyy!!! How did these men get married???? Or is it that the Japanese girls are just as nuts as them lol... ???
Ok later
Comments
Yuh say yuh landlord married right? So is his wife alive? I cant recall his wife ever going to dinner wid unnu?