Monkey See, Monkey Do

So, in addition to my three main schools (of which one is even more main by being my base school), I have a once a month special needs school (a former blind school, but now includes other special needs students [also apparently Helen Keller visited once which is pretty cool {it's a 107 years old school}]). I went again today.

It's not a particularly fun place. Not that any of my schools except Minami is (though Tuesday, the Chuo kids would quiz me on One Piece whenever I walked past). However, today was some kind of assembly. I actually participated a bit. There was some kind of quiz game where you had to run to the true or false side. I decided to be the lone person standing on the wrong answer to "Is Doraemon a robot cat?" and got out immediately. It was funnier that way, not trying to be a slacker.

Then I joined in on the rock-paper-scissors tournament. We had a bit of difficulty deciding when to shoot. I ended up winning round one, and after a vicious battle of ties, lost round two. The loser had to join his chain of people behind an every growing chain of people following the last winner. The prize was a person in a box (well, actually the blanket she was holding, but I would have preferred the person).

Classes sizes are incredibly small. One is four students or so, and the other is two. I only teach two classes there and spend most of the rest of my time on my phone. This time I at least brought my Russian book to study. Today was the election, so it was especially fun watching Facebook posts. Sometimes one of the teachers tries to invade my room they throw me into because they have no desk for me and make conversation.

The classes are mostly just talking about whatever pops into my head. There are "lesson plans", but it's basically "talk about semi-relevant stuff". Usually the classes break down into Japanese anyway. At some point (albeit last time) I invented a new food concept - tako + okonomiyake = takonomiyake. I want to try to make this.

I was supppppppposed to go to Minami afterwards to protect my promise that I would show the second half of the movie last week to the ESS. So I left early after my last class and went straight to school. The ESS teacher had tried to talk me out of it (as she does most things she is afraid would be a bother to me) and mentioned how she wouldn't be there today - but neglected to mention today was a shortened schedule. By the time I had arrived, club activities had already gone on for 30 minutes. I searched the whole school, but the ESS members were already gone. This makes the third time I have missed an ESS event where I said I'd be there because of various miscommunications. Tsubura's going to kill me...

At least I have pecans for a potential pecan pie for Thanksgiving. Slowly converting the club into a baking club...