Today my OTE had my 3年 write what they thought about me in English…… Some of the more interesting ones were: – Mr. Taccone is a pervert. – His body is very hairy. – His favorite food is his mother’s face. – He likes Japanese women. – If he could speak Japanese well, he would be cute. – He is like a cat. I don’t know how to feel about this ^^;
Every year we are given a work diary at school. I like to decorate mine each as they are otherwise a little bland.
This year I went with a mashup of Where the Wild Things Are and Adventure Time ^^
…….yeah it’s been a slow day at work.
So I was quite ecstatic when the coach of the track and field club (who I have been training with everyday) finally asked me to go swimming with the students this morning. The school pool has sat tantalizingly cool and refreshing across from my desk but realistically a world away up until now!
Anyhow I just finished up spending the last 90minutes swimming with my kids, playing games and whatnot. Now with what feels like retinal chemical burns, it’s painfully clear why the boys laughed at me when I said I didn’t need goggles…… Shouganai live and learn ^^;
Today I taught a 1年生 (first grade) One Piece themed lesson that I had been working on all week and needless to say the kids went crazy for it, BIG SUCCESS!
After class one of my students came up to me and was like ‘This is Tako-Sensei. He is my hero’ (Today’s grammar point). If you are an ALT and would like to check it out or use it I have uploaded it in the link below.
#meltedhearts #clichéilovemykidspost
Time??? Try Fuck!?
So this isn’t actually from one of my students but a good friend of mine sent me this the other day, completely baffled as to what one of her students had written.
Any ideas deciphering this little gem…….. No well here’s a great example why you shouldn’t blindly use google translate without double checking!
In this case the student had google translated “タイムトライヤル” (time trial) … However google split the ‘trial’ into ‘try yaru’.
Now yaru 殺る in Japanese literally means ‘to do’ however can also be read using 犯る…… Which is ‘to have sex with’
And so of corse google translated yaru into “fuck” hence “time try fuck”.
All the LULZ!!! (^_^;)
Nawwwww after writing my principal a thank-you letter for supporting me last week during my self introduction in front of all the principals in Kobe.
I came to school this morning to find he had written an article expressing how impressed he was with me in the weekly staff newsletter.
All day the other teachers have been telling me how surprised they are I learned to read and write (to be honest I’m still terrible). Feeling fair good about life today (*^^*)
I typed up copy below and provided liberal translations.
◇ 先日ALT紹介と，勤務説明会がありました。
ダニエル先生もしっかりと日本語で自己紹介していましたよ。
At a briefing for work the other day, the ALT’s introduced themselves.
Daniel spoke his self introduction firmly in Japanese.
「私は〜〜台中学校のダニエルといいます。好きな食べ物は餅です。八ツ橋は最高に美味しいで〜〜〜す。」
(Quoting some of my speech)
「I am Daniel from (my schools name) JHS, the food I love is mochi. Yatsuhashi (a specialty from Kyoto) is the most delicious’」
他校の校長先生からも大ウケでした。
It was well received by the other Principals there.
そして翌日，校長先生の机の上に，ダニエル先生からの手紙とチョコレートがおかれていました。とても優しい内容に嬉しくなりました。
Also the next day, on my table in the principals office, Daniel placed a letter and some chocolate (Terry’s chocolate orange in fact *^^*). His kind actions made me very happy.
仲間って良いですね！
He is a very good friend of mine!
Here is a copy of the letter I have him.
Just finished making my new student reward system for 2013 l, this year they are getting hipster animals, why you ask…..
When I asked my new OTE what kind of reward tokens she wanted me to make all she said was ‘I don’t care, whatever makes you happy’.
Now ithought to myself yano what always makes me happy kitsune, tako, pugs and mother fracking grumpy cat! (*^◯^*)
I have noticed these air temperature graphs present in every school and government building I’ve been inside in Kobe, I can’t help but only see Fin the Human from Adventure Time in them every day whenever I glance one in the 職員室 (Staff Room).
Right????
Every 12 months in all public organizations in Japan a grand mass personnel swap occurs which called Jinjiidou 人事異動 (annual staff reassignment).
As most JET participants will find themselves working at a public school of some description this change tends to affect us quite considerably.
For me personally this change has completely flipped my day to day life on its head, all 3 of my 校長先生 (principals) at my schools have been switched in the coming year. Most teachers are switching the year level they teach and most importantly, my l inexperienced and largely incompetent chief OTE has been replaced with a woman who is her polar opposite!
Regardless I have high hopes for the future.
So today was the big day for most 三年生 (9th grade) students with it being the day of sotsugyou 卒業 (graduation).
nihonomnom 