School

School has been good so far. The English teachers we work with are nice and the kids think we are such novelties, that they pay attention and listen to us. We have basically been creating worksheets to go with lessons and reading things for the classes for pronunciation. There is a lot of down time, since we don’t need too much preparation. The kids leave at 3:25 and the teachers work until 5:00. Dan has taken to reading during that time(he is reading Japanese fiction), but I haven’t been able to bring myself to read my NY bestseller on the job yet. Here are pictures of school.

Kids in the hall. They have a uniform, but they can where their sports uniforms instead. There are boys at this school too, but the girls seem to be more interested in having their picture taken.

This is one of the student bike parking lots. All the students ride their bikes to school- a lot of the staff does too.

This is where the students enter. It is the equivalent to a basement, but it's just inside from the bike area. They keep their inside shoes in the cubbies, take their outside shoes off on the tile, then step up onto the platform to put their inside shoes on.

Here are some camera shy girls.