Monday, February 18, 2008

TODAY AT SCHOOL

Classes were alright, winding down the school year, just two more weeks until the final tests, the 1-11 class wrapped up their speeches, most students did pretty good. I think most students never did a speech before in English from memory. A big differance compared to Kobu Jr High where the kids starting in 2nd grade made speeches from memory. Non less very good. Todays homeroom period was dedicated to cheering practice. So all the 1st graders and 2nd graders huddled into the gym to learn how to cheer the baseball team for their big appearance at Koshien next month on the 22nd.

Study kanji a bit on my free time. Chatted a bit with Harada sensei about Miyamoto sensei, still hurts to talk about his death even for the teachers, I feel for the teachers and students. I always glance over at Miyamoto's desk and know he is not with us. Then going to the teachers lounge room is also tough for me, cuz thats where I always used to sit and chat with Miyamoto sensei, that was the last place we met. I always come into the room all empty expecting to meet him, but then I realize he is not there. Its always a sad emptiness to enter that room.

In the late afternoon, I hit the weights in the gym. Its kinda my new routine since I can't make it to the regular gym in Tatsuno, so the machine weights will have to do for now, but they aren't bad. Ran into the karate kids, Ohashi, Kawanishi, and Inoue, nice kids, they were Miyamoto sensei's karate members, feel bad for them, saw how sad they were at the funeral. Just had a little chat with them, always giving shit to Ohashi because he is huge for a high school kid and the only one that beat me at arm wrestling at school, damn gotta work those guns harder.

After pumping iron ran into the soccer kids, crazy bunch. They brought me over and shouted out "KY" which means "kouki yomanai" or you can't read the air or you don't understand what I am saying. So I taught them the what KY means in English. They were like "oooohhhhhh". Then we exchanged more words, learned that "deep kiss, aka french kiss" means "noride" or I hope thats what it means, I will have to double check that. Anyways good day at school.

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