School's back

The kids are back at school! This morning was the semester 2 opening assembly and I had to make a little introductory speech. I said some crap about the kids coming and playing with me whenever they wanted and they took it seriously I guess cso the grade 4 girls rocked up at the staffroom during recess and dragged me outside to play chasey. During that time they managed to find time to pull my skirt up and have a look underneath ( I suspect this is the reason that they asked me out to play in the first place). Charming aren't they?

There are 467 kids here. That's more than double my last school so I reckon I will have a lot more trouble with names this time around! They all seemed friendly enough though and I have already been introduced to the troublemaker who was lolling around the staffroom all morning instead of sitting in the classroom with the other kids. I ate lunch in the staffroom today but from next week I amback to eating with the kids, starting from grade 1. I knew that the Japanese education system was standardised all ver the country but I didn't realise to what extent. The music that they all brush their teeth to after lunch is the same! In every school! How bizarre is that? So it hasn't taken me long to adjust to life here since it is pretty much the same as life elsewhere...