FIRST CLASS

Started work at my new high school in Himeji called Toyo Himeji High School, just over a week ago. But really didn't get to any classes til today. Honestly a bit nervous, but not too much, because well thats just me. First class was the 3-1 class, the brains class, where most of these kids will go to a good University and are the best of the best of the 3rd graders. Wow! Their English was really good, and Yoshikura Sensei had the whole class taught pretty much all in English! The one rule was to only speak English, so this will be very interesting, but I think the kids can do it. They all gave good answers about their dreams and hobbies. Very interesting to see compared to junior high school where sometimes I was happy that the kid even answered with a word. But then that first class was probably the best, the rest is WIP, work in progress for all the other classes, as probably the rest of the kids can't speak very well. But I will do my best to make these kids my little evil English project. The 2-4 class I also visited today, the have class two times a week with me, but doesn't mean they are twice as good. They either signed up to learn more English, or their friends signed up to, or they just didn't like math or science either. But the kids were nice and friendly and I think they showed me some hope to work with. So I am crossing my fingers. And hey they got their own motivation, they are going to do a 1 week homestay in Australia in June, how cool is that. Overall a good class day. Then even took out some time to visit some of the clubs around school, soccer, boys softball, badminton, basketball, and the really cool one Japanese archery called "Kyudo" the way of the bow. Kids were really nice and invited me in. The backdrop was full of cherry trees with the pedals flying off the trees as the kids shot the arrows. Kinda gave me a Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon moment, haha. Anyways back to school, more stories coming soon!