Extra Activity other than Teaching

[Otaku]

Nice story. Very uplifting.

[hokkaido1]

following a girls volleyball team for 6 years?

hhhmmm?

someone could many things into this

[Paul]

I have been following the girls softball, boys baseball, boys volleyball, and girls basketball as well.

[mangakk]

You know whether people believe it or not, having an ALT do these kind of extra curricular activities is truly appreciated by most of the schools. From my experience "they" may not have the "best" way of showing their appreciation however it does not go unnoticed.

I say AMEN to that!!!

Something happened today that reinforced my belief in what I said that you replied to here. At one of my schools I have been following along with the girls volleyball team now for something like 6 years, I go to as many games and tournaments that I can, time allowing of course, and right now they are in the finals of the prefectural tournament. If they win one more match they will be prefectural champs and go to the Kyushyu Tournment.

Well one of the parents supporter made a T-shirt for me as a "supporter" I got it at school a few weeks ago from one of the students and asked how much it was. They told me 2,200 yen. I paid for the Tshirt and wore it this AM to the tournament. One of the parents came up to me and gave me my money back saying....."Hey it was a present, you weren't supposed to have paid for it, you always come to the games and cheer our girls on, Thank You!"




Nice timing on the comment and topic I think. I stopped home for a bite to eat and now am out the door for the "next" match.

Me.... with the basketball team, and still to earn my T shirt. lol

[mangakk]

Had fun pulling the weeds today. I guess that will be my job for this week as I have no classes due to practice for the annual sports. Hope I do not get backache, dunno if I will like weeding after this week.

[Otaku]

uuumm...did you like weeding BEFORE this week?

[mangakk]

I hated it cause my dad would make sure we weeded Mom's garden. Both Vegetable and Flower, twice a week.
Today was fun cause we were telling stories and cracking jokes on each other, plus we had refreshment.

[lkelly2477]

I've joined a baking class, Kendo class,the excercise club
Played basketball with students.
Played volleyball, baseball with students.
I killed some flies and cockroaches.
Joined in with the brass band.

[Paul]

I killed some flies and cockroaches.

Ever teach your students how to tie a thread around a fly and make it into your pet?

[lkelly2477]

I killed some flies and cockroaches.

Ever teach your students how to tie a thread around a fly and make it into your pet?

No, but I think I will. It's a boring week since our 3rd graders are on a school trip. Now is the perfect time.

[bum1]

I just finished a website for our school. I'm still working out a few compatability issues with non IE browsers. Check it out... http://www.city.hirakata.osaka.jp/freepage/DAIITI/English/english.html

[Otaku]

I just finished a website for our school. I'm still working out a few compatability issues with non IE browsers. Check it out... http://www.city.hirakata.osaka.jp/freepage/DAIITI/English/english.html

Nice, dude! I like the style of the site, but is it my computer or does it seem a little slow to access?

[bum1]

Because it is multimedia intensive some of the pages are slow to access. Slow being like 5-10 seconds wait for one page. If you're on a dialup you'll probably be waiting for up to a minute, but dialup should be long gone from most peoples' lives. I've never used an i-phone or wireless with it. As I said there are firefox compatibility issues that I am trying to work out as well.