School days

Wow, you know the days are really flying by now that I actually have stuff to do here! I haven't sat down with nothing to do at all since Monday morning. I am loving it! First pool duty today also. That was fun too. Be better tomorrow when I actually remember to bring my bathers and all the rest of the bizzo...

Grade 3 class was cuuurazy again today and I ended up going off at Hiroki because he was pulling up the green tape on the floor. Once he was gone though the class was great. And then when I came downstairs earlier he was waiting for me in the staffroom to apologise and offer to help me fix it! On the way up to the classroom he told me that when he's worried about stuff he goes a bit mental and he can't really help it. That's all well and good I say, but how about just having a quiet fit by himself rather than disrupting the whole class with it? He reckons he will work on it. He really is a very smart kid, just either bad parenting or trouble paying attention or probably some combo of the two has made him a real shit to handle. I figure it's probably in my interest to try and befriend him if it means I can have a quieter grade 3 each week.

Meanwhile my grade 5s are working their way through the dictionary and surprising me each day with their new vocab. Today I got "penis, penis" yelled at me down the corridor. Except they pronounced it more like "penice" which was hilarious. I asked them to work harder on their pronunciation and try again next week.