Go Cubs, Go!

Hurry up and go!

After my long weekend, coming back to an empty school was the last thing I wanted to do. There are no teachers here, no students… it's the vice principal, a handful of teachers who are coaching sports and me… Me and the cicadas….

Thursday can’t come soon enough.

Yay! Thursday! Today I get to be a judge for a senior high school “Recitation Contest.” 

I didn’t know what to expect but it was very exciting. It reminded me a lot of Speech team in high school. The kids were given the choice to pick from either a segment of Hellen Keller or Obama speeches or to read a passage from the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I was super excited for the Harry Potter speeches! Unfortunately there weren’t many, maybe Japanese students think Harry Potter isn’t good speech contest material.  There were some excellent speeches and hard dedication by all the students and I can only hope that I have more experiences like this one in the future. I was impressed.

The rest of the week has been preparations for my first class introduction. I cheated a little and made a video. I hate talking about myself it makes me self conscious, so instead I let a video do  most of my talking for me. After showing it to some of the English teachers, I am hopeful that the students will like it. It seems that the teachers enjoyed it. I also have to make a mini intro and am thinking about ending it with, teaching the students how to sing the chant, “Go Cubs, Go!” We’ll see what happens.