Child assesses my infractions!

Water-bucket relay, getting pissed off with usual suspects (Yuki, Hikaru, smug face, bad little one, Manato). Tie stamping a new diversion. (Re-reading my notes, I am not sure what I mean either!)

Chikuwa & carrots for lunch, escaped green class to make something from Hungry Caterpillar. Days & numbers/fruit? Needed the time to sit & think about it, formulate a lesson plan as I was making the bits & pieces. This will work; that's stupid; that will take too long I should do it myself; the size is wrong; the font is wrong; there aren't enough components (need to divide by 32) etc.

Excursion to the fire brigade, same lot as above being shits. Guess the brigade will be busy tomorrow with typhoon damage? Fresh & breezy this afternoon. Job again to make sure nobody runs into a moving big red truck, gets their head stuck in a fireman's wellie or finds too much fascinating gravel.

Yuki bounced off me three times in succession in the corridor....
Strike One: a full on head charge saw him bounce into the shoe boxes.
Strike Two: a ramming assault = stood on the front of his shoe, landed on his bum a bit too hard.
Strike Three: punched me in the legs until he hurt his hand.
Funny thing was, he did an actual recount (like a referee justifying a yellow card) in the corridor pointing out where my offences had taken place. Wandered off to consider other options (such as behaving?).

A pair of twin engine passenger jets flying towards Nagoya this morning, line astern but relatively low. Very strange and something I have never seen before. Did not show up on FlightRadar24...

What a nice nice day...for a fire drill!

Fire! Fire! Fetch the engines...

I do not really know how I got through today, but the kindness & understanding of The Chief certainly helped; I had some colour flash cards with me at the gate, where some children connected & gave me a word...a start at least.One or two others resorted to head-butting instead :(

Big assembly and high praise for my mates, as sports day sounds like a success...how could it ever not be?! "Spontaneous", "Sport" & "Surprise" are not words I expect are in the lexicon for organised showcase events.

Be afraid!

Matsumoto's Barney McGrew...

New rules are explained about bikes, trikes & scooters - to be rationed to one class only per day. There are quite a few of them, but not enough to keep everyone happy. There have been breakages and tears, no less. In the red class, whose turn it is to be able to use the bikes etc first, a further explanation of their privelege! In the midst of this I get a call about my best friend's autopsy from his wife, lying to his kids about cause of death & would I like more marbo tofu for lunch. What the hell did my friend eat last? Trying to stare out of the window in case these little mites see me welling up - amused to see a guy 'tuning' the jungle gym. Cool job with Toy Box!

After a recent haircut the children have discovered the spot on the back of my head. I wish it was a reset button, or today a teleport machine.The fire brigade arrived instead and the older ones had a fire drill. Given all the marching practice we've had the last onth, this is very old hat! Homeroom teachers put to task with an extinguisher, and kids given the "Don't play with matches" speech.

A dark, dark cloud over my day which had nothing to do with the children etc...in many ways they helped me keep focus & bless them for that.