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School Lunch: Week of April 17

Continuing my kyuushoku (school lunch) series.

Monday, April 13
Some kind of fish
5-types salad with a bunch of stringy veggies
Soup with Tofu and cabbage (Dosanko)
Rice
Milk with a Kobaton having a picnic
Rice crackers from one of my teachers
This is one of those Japanese-style meal where I don’t know half of what I’m eating. I’m really not a fan [...]

School Lunch: Week of April 10

The new school year started last week, along with a new round of school lunches (kyuushoku). School lunch here in Japan is pretty nuts, you never seem to get the same lunch twice. and it’s full of veggies that you’ve never even heard of. For the most part I find them to be pretty delicious, [...]

A good time was enjoyed by all (in bed)

I feel incredibly fortunate to have the JTEs I have, they are all nice and I get along with everyone. That said, there is one teacher I somewhat dread teaching with who I shall refer to as Clueless-sensei. He’s a very nice guy, but I’m almost positive he never intended to be an English teacher. [...]

Songs of the Month: September Review

Part of the warm-up of nearly every one of my English classes is the song. Each month there’s a new song for the 7th, 8th and 9th graders. Should be fun, right, singing a song every day. Unfortunally, it can be painful. These are kids just learning to speak English, so songs have to have [...]