Wednesday, 15 October 2008

I'm a Lock Star! Lol I mean Rock Star!

So I just came back from my first nursery school class, and I feel like a rock star. If you feel sad, my solution to you is: go play with little kids. I’m dead serious. They jumped all over me and cried if they didn’t get to touch my hand. All I heard the entire time was Kasandora sensei Japanese-nonsense-this and Kasandora sensei. Japanese-nonsense-that. They served me Oolong tea out of flowers and dirty water and asked me if their mud rice balls were delicious. I was like Maria in the Sound of Music and they followed me like little ducks; I bet I could have started singing and they would have too. I was able to kind of teach them duck, duck goose, but the hokey pokey was just too much for them. Kate and I had a half hour meeting with 4 nursery school principals (4 of them) prior to today and they asked that I dress up for Halloween (since I won’t see them on Halloween). So I was Sacajawea and even found a Native American Doll, they loved it.
My first adult class was fun as well; I love being able to actually talk to them without singing or playing games. I introduced the concept of Show and Tell to them. The first Show and Tell was funny, the old guys get up and ramble on and on about their airplanes or whatever else they’re interested in. Then the other old people start asking questions in Japanese and I have to remind them that this is an English class. But we have fun, they are a great group. One guy brought his Swiss nail clippers to Show and Tell. Believe me it was fascinating...I didn’t want to touch them, but other people passed them around like they were the greatest thing ever. Then he explained that in his photo album, a picture of the aforementioned nail clippers could be found on page 54. It was actually pretty hysterical and I can’t wait to see what people are going to bring to my next adult class.