On a sweaty Friday

I picked up multi-region video player this morning & carted it over to the kindy on the back of my bike - our old school gadget today to share Wallace & Gromit's Wrong Trousers, which I can't get hold of digitally too easily. 

The Boss jury-rigged a screen for me in the hall, hope they love it! Meantime this am stranded in Fski's class (avoided 'aerobics' making a pic for the video) and that was about that for the day.

On my mind (and unable to think straight in her badly behaved unarmed combat class) is the training session I'm running in Shibuya tomorrow, and how I'm going to get there; will be in class til 9pm tonight - recharge my batteries on the train down?

Forty-nine yesterdays

No bike - 3 weeks to fix a bloody spoke?! Collected it on the way home, and lost Y3000 for the spoke. Jesus!

Furious mood yesterday - school landlord spouting bullshit about spare types & 3 blocks under the stairs around the back; we had to put them somewhere you arsehole, and they have been there for three years. What do you think rent entitles us to do? Boil your head.
Meanwhile, a client being stingy about hotel after I travel last thing or sparrow's fart? No respect = no co-operation
Also trip to recycle centre in between being badly advised filling in the bank loan form & making a mess of it. 
Also very angry my business class yesterday did not prepare, with Droopy tipping me over the edge with his routine lack of any gumption/personality. Imagine (fat) Ronaldo crossed with Michael Keaton.
Then asked to lead tourism map project with augmented reality.

Mundane start to today; some kids had made a mud cake + cherries with iLeader for me - thank you!. Double Jim Time today = keeps me busy. No complaints, as I far prefer to do stuff. Trying Three Billy Goats DVD & obvious technical issues with no chance to set up ahead of time; Choriso practical. Not much warm up as a result, & in the end coloring took far longer I imagined.

Other lot been on a trip & late back > lots of sleepy heads & lunched out.

Again, more with less, partly as we had less time to set up & Bacardi was unsure of the sockets. 

Same procedure "Hello" song

 "One little finger" then straight in after quick intro 

Three Billy Goats. 

Outro = I wrote something on finished product. 

Cherries & birthdays

Well they're nowhere near ripe yet, but showing promise outside red & pink classrooms; plums in the yard swelling. Hot & very sweaty cloudy; rainy season here?

My bike needs fixing - spoke, axles, and chain so I drove, which took 15 minutes longer. Spent last night at my school's new location imagining the rooms from a teaching perspective. Compared to our previous venues, squeezing large pegs into tiny holes; but needs must and a healthy paring of resources due. The actual teaching space worries me, especially if we do (we will) attract more YLs and need floor space. Our old school has that in abundance, but we must move before we all go mad!

Birthday day today - for the month - which is a nice idea, sharing the glory and not bigging-up one particular kid at a time.

A student teacher (do they all have to make their own naff anime character apron's as a project or something?) introduces herself during the show - a full school event in the hall, birthday mums (rarely a dad) clutching phones as cameras, often video cameras in the other hand too! She wisely plays piano to familiar tune. Instant success! Welcome Rina Sensei.

Wonky Donkey & lunch-box envy

Trying to remember the Wonky Donkey this am & think of actions

Spunky = brow wipe

Hanky Panky = hit wrists

Cranky = angry horns

Stinky Dinky = pinch nose & wave away a fart

Lanky = stretch

Honky-Tonky = guitar

Winky = wink

Wonky = hop foot to foot

Early start & tried to stretch it; lot of blank faces asked to draw a donkey, but wanted to do before video which they'd copy. Check out 30+ originals.

Mums hovering as they are observing tiddlers today.

One older kid having a 'mare & howling the place down; continues after the bell & is consoled a bit by friends, which doesn't do any good! I sit with her but that does sweet FA either. Old gate-ball playing lady pushes candy thru the gate (am sure her grumpy spouse would like to push her through the gate, miserable sod). Boss tempts howler away with promise to phone mummy. Boss carries her back into class all smiles 10 mins later & sits her down. Tells class Y has been told a big secret & she's promised not to say. Great strategy & makes her feel good, others jealous, not pitying.

Allan unusually industrious, taping things up; half school disappeared on an excursion. Boss redirects Allan & can see her lower lip drift to usual setting!

Meantime, long briefing from Legs11 that loses me, found a Wonky Donkey app & lined it up on YouTube with my phone. Treasure Hunt mums & toddlers looks engaging. Some of the mums look engaging too ;)

Bunked off to go to the convenience store as I had not brought my own lunch today (analog schedule I was given 6 weeks ago taped to my calendar at my office probably; old lady who has obviously never used an ATM in front of me! Enjoyed a/c in Seiyu, spoiled for bento choice but had to choose something unlikely to raise too much interest). Competitive mums as usual gone over the top prepping these precious morsels. No wonder they all look knackered. Just don't do it (but then my own wife does too...).

Saved a girl's shoe off a roof; got pissed off with K humping my leg. Earlier gave Tigger a rev in Madge's class for being persistently naughty/AWOL. Farming lot came back shattered. TGIF....

Bloated, cranky and not very positive

Feeling fat, bloated & tired, barely able to chase a ball this am

Yellow class doing scissor skills (quite well) cutting circles, squares & triangles; my job to lean in & 'help', using English? That's hard for everyone concerned (and least useful for the least co-oordinated?). Introduced posing TPR which was nice & drew out energy!

Babies & mums in hall; scared a few including iLeader's niece - oops!

Sleepy & not in the mood today, and really gone off a lad Tigger who is sneaky...another lad Tatty, who had an obviously painful & worrying eye operation (for months had to wear goggles taped on to his face), now a daily ball-stabbing pain.

Black Cat a bit flat with Dragon lurking. Achieved little; did scribble down a shopping list of stuff I'd like to invest their money in. Scroll on to see if anything becomes of my recommendations.

Is it the parents?

Slow kick about with one irritating lad hoofing it far end of the yard every chance; dopey tw*t. Takumi showing promise. Didn't feel too bad landing the football on the recently bullying lad with Mohawk; wasn't so cocky after his bubble burst. Now I know how Paul Scholes feels?! Other MUFC news is that Giggs takes a back seat to a certain Luis van Gaal.

Main activity this morning seems to be collecting very small plums off the tree in the yard.

Proper drum practice in hall but I have surprise x2 middle classes today & not the Black Cat repeat I was expecting. Bit of a panic. Theme "Ten in the Bed" but Fski's rabble not really much fun.  

Hid after lunch & planned/remembered ideas for rest of month & June, almost. Felt guilty hiding but can't think with kids dangling off every limb, & don't get paid preparation time. Fair, I think.

More with less 2nd time round + useful Choriso help. She's instinctive & kid-focused. "Hello" song milked, a lot more, & "Ten in the Bed" avoided violence.

With my other work cap on, speaking examiners sorted for Cambridge FCE everywhere :) 

Family news = my step-father has been given his marching orders; well done mum so proud & so helpless far away...standing around watching mums apparently happy wondering which ones are in the same situation as you were through my childhood...

My little brother's birthday...and a disorganised day

4th new schedule in 24hrs = totally confused & annoyed. Yesterday's cancellation & loosing track what I have done with whom.

Gate ball baggy balls again in yard, miseries.

Touch your buddy's head etc, then join mums & do as 3s; Mums watch (seen a few for the first time in other rooms, especially blue class), then registration. Older & younger buddy to a draw picture of the mum the person they're paired with, chairs as desks. Jim paired with 'orphan' but mum arrives. 

Madge moves & monitors, loud praise & subtle encouragement; mums happy to spectate close up.