Furniture wrangler

Disengaged in yard, & being the spare part on floor at back of yellow class. Had an absolute gutful of obnoxious Ibuki already, hitting & poking & taunting me. Thick shit will cop a walloping some time.

Mochi bashing in the forecourt; Boss never joins in these things, just wobbles a camera on a stick. Must be a good camera with tremendous image stabilisation.

Totally not in the mood for arse fiddling today, set to snap at any forearm venturing near my choco starfish. Usual suspects being too demanding.

Graduation practice had one lad lost in the hall as he didn't know his birthday! My key role today furniture wrangling & admiring Madge's bum of steel.

Not even Photoshopped out

Overdid it last night...Inert in the yard; birthday day so that routine in the hall, uninvolved but on show. 

At least I was in blue class today and acknowledged. Lunch = help all 4 classes with tea (blue most polite, green least - who would have guessed?)

Graduation photos minus me - so not even photoshop required. Absolutely gutted; didn't really dawn on me until I was cycling home. My input, love, care, time,

 "entertain this lot" job of 60 instead. Chaos in the hall, free play.

Copenhagen > Singapore > Bangkok > Matsumoto?

Excited about my mate's discovery of a 10 yr vet Kindy teacher looking for a job from Bangkok. I love the way my friends look out for me and the way some things slip in to place when you need them to.

Wagged lunch to email her; a Danish lass, pretty, can sing and has a YouTube channel to prove it. Boxes ticked.

With green (groan) & lanky new Kana, who is nice & careful with the kids. Boring day. Quick song to younger kids' mums who are moving up. Skipping & stuff in hall, no real involvement. At least hay fever drugs work.

Blue class all said thank you - made sure they got one hell of a slap on the back from Choriso = red letter day.

Strong medicine

Think I must have overdone the cold meds today, as my notes make no sense/all too vivid machinations of working in an all-female environment? Think I need another lie down.

Mackeral

Still 3 classes MIA, pitched in with Minnie, but ended up nodding off as Allan made butterfly paper cup photo holder things.

Heavy fried mackerel sent me direct to the jacks.

Drew a puzzle piece for missing /Hh/

fairly on the hoof Jim Time

using ABC floor tiles minus inners

 & x2 jigsaws to establish letter order. 

Traced shape of letter to make standing alphabet, then static as stuck along wall. 

Made an ABC pavement then kids sit on a letter. 

Say alphabet in order you are sitting, then get them to move 

eg all boys switch places etc. 

45 mins high octane & Kaisei/Nao being tw&ts. 

Pretty newbie also here. 

Flu, anyone?

Three entire classes closed this week ie 90 kids MIA (yellow/blue/green) & Jim Time lobbed out the window. At least I feel a ton better than last week (tad selfish?!)

Honk, puke, upchuck - Friday 13th

Sent home, slept nearly 60 hrs straight

Utterly average day

Yuri's granny brought him & 'Choux creme' so obviously mummy popped at last ("Mocha").

Minnie trying hard to add English whenever she can & kids like it (natural) - compare and contrast that to Allan who has no clue. Hand painting a tree, lunch with Syouri for 3rd time running - I have become eating coach for a four year old. Ambition achieved.

Too hot in teacher's room, got jumped on by Teruma (his friends pulled him out of his trousers which was hilarious). Music practice yet again; Chief again gave them the perfect pep talk (and bigged-up Eita for not shouting about his broken castanet - waited til the end & by then in tears as he'd miss his go. Nicely done)

Mini Jim Time Hokey Kokey & This is the Way (1st time) in yellow. Madge again looking frisky.

Oni-wa-soto

Chief giving good chat about the meaning but also about not saying nasty things to friends, which Allan also mentioned first up in class & about not throwing stuff at people/saying 'Shinu' ("die"). Not a bad thing to pick up on.

Oni himself scared the crap out of some little ones: soon a herd behind me quivering & crying, several hugs administered!

Food = make monster face, thence unto sola class & nothing to do. Observed band practice, someone puked in the corridor, Wataru told off & made sit seiza, still misbehaved. The lad has a snarky streak.