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parasitegirlI'm headed up to Takasaki. It's up-north, a few hours by regular train. I'll be traveling with Jimmy "Black-cat" Lee (humor him) who is the lil-brother-former-co-worker who got me this gig. I'll be going with him to an English Language Study three-day summer camp for elementary school kids up north. It pays. The cash will hold me until paycheck day! Yay! And that's really why I'm doing it. The experience of working with the lil' ones, that's nice and all..
It will be my first time actually working with elementary school kids, and seeing that that is my new job, I could probably use the practice. Most of it will be group stuff. Games, hiking, and...stuff? Not sure at all. But on the second day I'll be alone, with 6-7 kids, for 2 hours...(shiver)
I raided my new school for supplies and I got packed up. I've got some big flash cards of colors and fruits and some monkeys with magnets on the back of them. No clue really. I think I'll be making up simple songs about liking fruits and colors...then games about fruits and colors...and then perhaps two team competitions about fruits and colors in which scoring is kept by the monkeys climbing banana trees...all very intellectual stuff I assure you. Post-modern, really. A great use of my degree in fine arts.
But it pays. I'm pretty sure there will be no vegetarian food, nor any food source nearby. I'm got a sneaky feeling I'll be on a caffiene low as well...but it pays! I've packed my allergy meds, because I've never worked at a summer camp or internationalization seminar that didn't involve sad moldy bunk-beds and a special demonstration devoted to "how to fold the linens."
Wish me luck and edible cafeteria foods!
It will be my first time actually working with elementary school kids, and seeing that that is my new job, I could probably use the practice. Most of it will be group stuff. Games, hiking, and...stuff? Not sure at all. But on the second day I'll be alone, with 6-7 kids, for 2 hours...(shiver)
I raided my new school for supplies and I got packed up. I've got some big flash cards of colors and fruits and some monkeys with magnets on the back of them. No clue really. I think I'll be making up simple songs about liking fruits and colors...then games about fruits and colors...and then perhaps two team competitions about fruits and colors in which scoring is kept by the monkeys climbing banana trees...all very intellectual stuff I assure you. Post-modern, really. A great use of my degree in fine arts.
But it pays. I'm pretty sure there will be no vegetarian food, nor any food source nearby. I'm got a sneaky feeling I'll be on a caffiene low as well...but it pays! I've packed my allergy meds, because I've never worked at a summer camp or internationalization seminar that didn't involve sad moldy bunk-beds and a special demonstration devoted to "how to fold the linens."
Wish me luck and edible cafeteria foods!
