i know i owe all of you out there who read this thing about fifteen posts and i will get to them soon. it has been an uber busy couple of weeks, er, month here and i am just getting caught up with everything myself. for the time being though, here was the high light of my day.
teaching 3rd graders this afternoon. the homeroom teacher (who i teach the class with and also who plans the class, i just come in as an assistant) tells me and the kids that we will sing a new song today. great. no problem. these songs are super easy to learn and i usually know them or can pull them from some deep memory store from childhood. so she starts the CD and it is a super easy song as i thought. basically they are saying words of foods in japanese and then asking for the kids to try and give the english word, but doing this all in a sort of musical way, more like a call and response form. the song starts easily with fruits and foods like ham and bacon. really essential if you are learning english as an 8 year old child in japan. i mean who knows when you will be having breakfast with some foreigners next and they will want to know your favorite breakfast meat? who knows??, it really is just smarter to be prepared. :) so next comes curry and some other various japanese favorites, followed by my favorite, biru. thats right folks, that translates in english to beer. really, really important for the youth on this island to know this word. really. so glad that we could include it in our english lesson this afternoon.
i couldnt stop laughing on the inside or thinking about how strange this all was. not only was this a song that the teacher has chosen, but a CD that some japanese company had made and then the japanese govt had chosen that specific CD to include in the elementary ciriculum here. the kids and the teacher didnt even flinch or think it was weird. i was the only one. still am.
japan is so strange some days. i love it here. :)
hope you are loving life where you are today as well.
catchin up soon,
beth
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