Sing a song

Today I went over to the kindy as per usual. This week though they wanted me to help them with some English songs for the kids to sing at a concert they are putting on for the parents at the end of November. They told me about this on Wednesday and asked me to pick songs for them. I have no idea about songs for such little kids, sure if they were native speakers no worries, but I dunno how hard it's gonna be for them to learn say Twinkle Twinkle Little Star do I? The teachers picked out a song for the bigger kindy kids and the little ones out of the selection I presented. The little kids are doing Twinkle and the bigger ones are doing this song called Colours, (you'll never guess what that ones about!). So they line the kids up in front of me and say "there you are" and I am supposed to teach them to sing these songs - with actions. I dunno, I just make up gestures as I go along, and because I am just making them up I don't pay much attention to them and the second time we sing the song maybe they are different. So the kindy teachers have to step in and tell me to do the same gestures every time. And then when I finally get that sorted out they tell me to do different gestures, ones they have already prepared earlier. Why didn't they just tell me about these gestures to begin with? Would have saved me a lot of time and been less confusing for the kids. They continued to do this throughout the whole morning, asking my opinion on something, setting it up like that, and then just coming through and changing everything to the way they wanted it in the first place. Why didn't they just organise the kids themselves? Why did they ask my opinion if they weren't gonna listen to it? And why would they think I even care which way the kids wave their arms first? As far as I am concerned it doesn't matter, they could wave their legs if they wanted to, as long as they are having fun. She kept making "suggestions" and then looking at me for confirmation that it was a good idea and I felt like saying to her "I don't care!! Just do whatever you want so I can get out of here!" Never has singing songs been so freaking hard.

The upside of all this frustration was that I didn't have to do my normal classes so I just skipped back to the primary school when I was done with saying twinkle twinkle little star over and over and over and over. When I got back to the E-room there was a year 3 girl in there whose name I can't remember and she was just hanging out. I got her to play the piano for me and she was really good, dunno how her little fingers stretched that far but she was playing chords and everything. We hung out at recess and it was fun. She is the type of kid who is just happy to sit and watch you do your thing, she doesn't need constant attention or to be touching things all the time so it was fun. I don't mind if she comes in and plays with the stuff in the cupboard because I know she will put it back afterwards and won't break it. My Friday afternoons are pretty easy, the last 2 classes are years 3 and 4, they are the most well behaved ones. And they generally tend to be better because I am in a happier mood, it being Friday arvo, and I have practiced the games with the other year 3 and 4 classes during the week, ironed out any problems with games and organisation so it's much smoother running.

Tonight there is a speech at the BOE, a woman from Ghana I think. They have decided ot start charging people for going now, 300yen each. Apparently the money goes to the speaker, so if I do eventually get cornered into a speech myself, which has been threatened many times, at least I will get some compo for it. But then again, anyone who knows me also knows that paying 300yen to listen to me talk for an hour is a huge rip off so perhaps my audience will be very small!

In explanation of my technicolour blog entry today; As Sloth requests so shall he receive.