This morning we had a music assembly. Each month the school has a different song for the students to learn. This month it is the creatively titled Sing a Song which makes the tuneful yet dubious claim that any time you are feeling any emotion what so ever you should just sing a song about singing a song. Hmm, I remain unconvinced. The kids have been practicing it every day for a while now and so they are pretty much all over it. What makes these assemblies annoying for me is the music teacher. She has one of these voices that is perpetually just a tone or two higher than what you would consider a normal range and I cannot be sure whether she is putting it on, or if she really does speak like that. Today she was attempting to explain to the kids how to create a good sound with their voices by screeching down a microphone at them, there hasn't been such a paradoxical lesson since I told my kids off for swearing last week.
Having survived this ordeal at 8:15 on a Monday morning with my pleasant mood intact I feel somewhat optimistic about the rest of the day. That is until I am reminded about having to go to my old school and participate in "english activites" with the grade 5s this arvo. Someone has allowed our weekly CIR meeting time to be taken over with meeting kids and letting them practice their English on us. I am not impressed. Monday is child free. I have no classes, I skip out early for the meeting - it's practically the weekend for me and today it is going to be ruined by being forced to say nice things about some kids' crap English skills. If this were a pantomine this would be where the BOO HISS cards were held up.
In more exciting news; I have had mail today from a friend who is talking of the possibility of coming to visit me here in Japland. YAY! This is the best news I have had since... I can't even remember when! Sightseeing plans are formulating in my head already - concentrating mainly on the sights from the inside of the closest bar of course - but still a quality holiday.
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unfortunately i won't be visiting you, but make sure you take lots of photos so those less fortunate can see what's over there!
and BTW please send any rain you have over here - it's VERY dry.
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