Hanakin - the wonderous phenomenon that is Friday

Friday Friday. Ah, they just seem to come around so fast these days... Yesterday was crazy town at school. I was asked to hep out with the special needs class as they were putting on a Tanabata party for their parents and teachers to come and watch. There are only 3 kids in the class, 2 boys and a girl. I had to help them make hotcakes in 3rd period which was highly interesting. The 2 boys tend to gang up on the girl and not let her get involved in anything. In the English class on Wednesday we studies colours and when Masaki picked out green as her favourite colour Hiroki went mental because that's HIS favourite colour. They told her she had to have yellow. Anyway, yesterday it was a stool. They all wanted to sit on the same stool so they had a bit of a tug-a-war over it next to the frypan. It was great. Yamamuro was nowhere to be seen, he'd left them with me while he did god knows what elsewhere. When they are all excited and the boys are doing their stupid voices I can't understand what the hell they are saying so I ended up just yelling at them and distracting them while they were still surprised at being yelled at by saying "Oh, look whose hotcake needs turning over!" with about as much enthusiasm as I usually would say "Oh, look they are giving away beer!" That seemed to work.

The actual party was after lunch and even though the kids had obviously been practicing they were so nervous and when they read out the opening remarks from their books you couldn't hear a word of it. They sang a few songs and handed out the hotcakes and played some games. It was fun in the end but oh so very frustrating to watch sometimes. Afterwards there were heaps of hotcakes left and Yamamuro said they could eat some and while our backs were momentarily turned they wolfed the whole lot down! It was hilarious, they just had syrup all over their faces.

So today I have my last E-time classes and I am kind of relieved even though I know I will be bored next week without classes to teach. I never really got along with the grade 6 class very well so I am glad to see the back of them. I am supposed to be swimming with them currently, but I am "busy doing prep".