I love Fridays!! Gotta love it when the weekend is here! So today I had a full day of class...all 6 periods in a row at the elementary school. I guess it was a pretty long day...at the end of the day I was literally falling asleep in the teacher's room! I was mentally and physically tired!
But it was a pretty good day...filled with BINGO! Haha. For the 4th grade classes I did a "How are you?" BINGO game. They all liked it and got into it. It's amazing how much stamps amuse and satisfy kids. I guess it was also the joy of getting BINGO that really brought the excitement. Well that went well. I also had the 5th grade class where we played a game and then continued on in the textbook.
The 6th grade classes were not as good...I guess the students are more rowdy and don't care as much...or so it seems. They are a little more troublesome and like to be more obnoxious. One of the teachers actually grabbed one of the kids by his collar and dragged him out of the classroom to scold him! Wow...but I guess he needed it or he wouldn't have stopped misbehaving. I didn't exactly see what the kid did because during that time we were doing an activity where everyone was moving around, and I was on the opposite side of the room. I just saw the part where the teacher had him by the collar and was dragging him out. Interesting day...
Well, the day ended and I was sitting in the teacher's room, thankful that the day was over! While I was teaching the classes, I didn't have a tired feeling. I guess the adrenaline running through helped. But it was when I actually sat down and took a deep breath that I suddenly got tired and was exhausted! Haha. I could feel my eyes getting heavy and droopy...and I almost really did fall asleeep. But I managed to stay awake and make it through until I had to leave.
Tonight I was planning on going up to Chiba with my buddy just to go hang out and get out of the inaka for the night. So we hopped on the train. But while I was at my station, I saw a man who looked familiar...very familiar...
Then I realized that it was one of the guys from my BOE! It was the head man! Haha! Go figure! We saw each other and were dually surprised and started talking! He was headed up to Mobara for a reunion with old friends for a high school or college get together...something to that effect! So he saw me and my buddy on the train and we were all talking. Then we also saw another JET who is in a city about 20 minutes away from us! Haha, so we were all on the train talking with each other. I guess it was the night to be on the Sotobo Line! Haha.
Well my buddy and I finally made it up to Chiba and we went to dinner. Then we headed to the Hub which is a pub. A lot of foreigners usually go there. And they were there tonight! My buddy and I started playing darts, and we met a guy who was with his friend. The guy was from England and his friend was from Scotland. They were nice guys and we played a few rounds of darts with them. They were really funny and amusing, so we had a good time. We played one round for shots. The losers had to buy shots and either drink themselves or buy for the winners. Well, I could only have the feeling that they were trying to hussle us at first...I felt like they were pretending to not be as good during the first round on purpose...but I guess they just wanted a friendly game of darts! They were really nice and we had a really good time. My buddy and I lost by a little bit, so we got a round of shots. But the Englishman and Scottish man offered to pay for half and wouldn't take no for an answer. So we were sitting with a few shots of a drink that was extremely strong! I myself didn't have one....as I don't have the best alcohol tolerance. I was just sitting back with my own drink enjoying watching the others take down this drink!
Well, apparently the Scottish man had lived in North Dakota for around 10 months while he was in high school. Haha...pretty random, but he was funny and had some good stories of his times in North Dakota. It was really amusing and as I said before, we all had a good time. Well, it came time for my buddy and I to leave...our last train to get back home was 11:30ish so we headed out for the night. The nice thing about my location is that it's really not too far from a decent sized city like Chiba. About an hour or so. We finally made it back and I'm ready for bed!
Good night and a good weekend to all!
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