Monday, March 5, 2012

Graduating Classes and Japan Puberty Stage

School lunch with "Congratulations" dessert
The school year ends in March, and early March for the graduating class.  As it is, my 3rd year junior high school students (9th grade) are finishing up this week, with a graduation ceremony on Saturday.  I only knew them a little more than half a year, but will be sad to see them go (except for one class who doesn't talk at one of my schools, good riddance to the lot o' ya! Haha)  The final lesson is them writing stuff about their teachers, embarrassing moments, fun times, predictions for themselves in 1 week, 1 year and 10 years, and writing down who is most likely to be an actor/actress, be a doctor, get rich and who will go to jail.

I'm nearing what I think is my puberty stage in Japan now.  When I first got to Japan and for the first few months I was still trying to figure out how things work, what teachers expected of me, and trying to see how I could get the students to connect with me.  Now I more or less know what's going on and what I should be doing.  Case in point: This blog is being written during work.  OH BAM!

Trying to think of what to do with my 2nd years (8th graders) for their last class.  Maybe Jeopardy or something.

卒業式【そつぎょうしき】 (sotsu/gyou/shiki) (n) graduation ceremony; graduation exercises

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