Back to school with a bang and a whimper

First day of teaching today since the earthquakes. Had Komata-sensei's third year class today. I'd prepared some activity's based around Guy Fawkes, since today is Guy Fawkes Day. To be honest, there isn't a lot you can do with Guy Fawkes.At least with Halloween and Christmas, there are all sorts of traditions and stories behind those traditions. With Guy Fawkes, we have bonfires and fireworks; one to symbolise his execution, the other to symbolise the failed gunpowder plot. And that's it. Still, Komata-sensei at least seemed interested so I hope the students were too, at least more than they let on.

I also had Merguro-sense's lesson too. We hadn't had time to prepare too much for this lesson so we did a quick "What should I do activity?" were the students pretend they're in the situation where they meet me just after the earthquake and they have to tell me what to do. It didn't really work too well but it filled the lesson.

Right, time to head home and get ready to take Helen to Narita.