Wednesday....

Today I had my 2nd Elementary School day in a row....talk about tiring! Haha!

I have a conference up toward Chiba city tomorrow and Friday. Since I normally have elementary school on Friday as well, I was going to miss it. But the BOE didn't want me to miss teaching those classes so they scheduled me to take those classes today instead of being at the middle school.

Well, the day was tiring but it's over, so I guess it's not so bad! I taught numbers lessons, a lesson from the textbook, and fruits for the classic Fruit Basket game!

It was kind of nerveracking because one of my classes was canceled and replaced with another grade because of "Influenza!" They sent home the 6th graders early today because quite a few of them were absent because of the sickness. After I heard that, I was wondering why they don't just send the whole school home early...there's probably a chance that if someone had it leftover in their system, it could spread pretty easily. I thought it would have just been better to send everyone home...but oh well! I hope that I don't get sick!

Well, I'll be at the conference tomorrow and Friday and it will be cool to catch up with some of the other Chiba ALTs that I haven't seen in awhile. I hope the conference isn't too bad! On Friday, I also have a presentation. It's for all 1st year ALTs and they have to do a demo teaching lesson with one of the JTEs at their middle or high school. I practiced earlier this week with my teacher so I feel pretty good, but it's still something left on the plate to do. Wish me luck!