There's some kind of English study going on in this school next year so in preparation for that they have suddenly decided that all the homeroom teachers need to be participating more in my classes. I am not so sure they need to. All it means is more work for me because I now have to explain what I will do in class to the teacher beforehand. They are always busy and I hate talking to people at work, so I have just printed out a heap of "English Lesson Outline" sheets and will just slip them love letters before their classes. I reckon they'll apreciate that more since they can hardly be expected to remember such small details about a class someone else will be conducting in 3 or 4 days time.

Last night I was at the Konko Hospital getting some blood taken (and getting the results back in only 20 minutes too!!) and ran into one of my year 4 students from Rokusho. She told me that she missed my English classes cos they were fun and that made me feel a little bit bettter about what I am doing here. I miss that school too, where no one ever looked over your shoulder, or made stupid jokes about your hairstyle, or any such stupidity.