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since I’ve updated my blog.

No reason for it really, I’ve just been busy or too tired to do so.

It feels like S-T is kind of exploding now, but in a good way. We’re getting a lot of opportunities that we didn’t get before, and it seems like things are in general, really changing for the better! I’m really proud of the site and the work that everyone has put into it, so I hope it can keep going the way it is.

In other news… we had a Halloween Event at school on November 1st, which was a lot of fun. Eri, Sean and myself all had a room to man, so I did a mystery box game where kids had to stick their hands inside a box without knowing what it was. I had Jell-O (green, too), wet, balled up newspaper, rice that was soaking in water, and cucumbers. I also borrowed a pumpkin costume from Eri, because we decided that suited me better than Cookie Monster, haha.

The event was a lot of fun, so of course now I’m totally looking forward to the Christmas event! Santa’s even coming.

Classes are going well. I really enjoy all my students, and even the ones who were giving me a few problems before, are getting better. For the most part, the troublesome kids aren’t ‘bad’ because they have a desire to be bad… a few of them have some issues.

On Thursday, Kuu-chan (one of my four year olds) got angry at me (not actually angry). She had made a cone out of origami paper. I asked her if it was ice cream, and she said yes. Since there was no ‘ice cream’ in it, I balled up a piece of scrap paper and tossed it in. She looked at it for a minute, then took it out, and told me it couldn’t go in there because it wasn’t origami. I told her it was. Then she said it wasn’t origami paper, so it wasn’t origami, hahaha.

After that, she asked for more sheets (only brown), crumpled them up and made chocolate ice cream in her cone. She’s seriously the cutest kid. Although I say that about almost all of them… haha.

I have another student, we’ll call her M, who insists on drawing afros on everything when we’re doing our colouring worksheet. Well, everything meaning everything of mine. Usually there’s only two kids in that class, M and R (who is a boy). When M starts drawing afros, R will go “NO THANK YOU! NO AFRO THANK YOU!”.

I LOVE IT. Haha. I asked her why she likes afros so much, but she’s not really sure. They also tried to make my hair into an afro one day… that didn’t work out so well.

That’s one thing you gotta love about working with people, especially kids… no day is ever the same.

Although that said, I love my adult classes too. They’re like, the nicest people ever, and they’re so much fun. Sometimes I wish I had a recorder or a video tape in that class.

I do have to say that I feel really grateful and lucky that I got this job. The students are great, and my co-workers and boss are awesome. In a way, it feels kind of like the campground, minus all the stupidity. But it’s that kind of atmosphere that because you really enjoy it, you want to work hard to make everyone happy and to make it the best it can be.

And although that sounds corny, that’s how it is.