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02 March 2006

Graduation Practise

Tomorrow is graduation day for both my schools, which is unfortunate because it means I will miss the graduation at Tsunan (it being the school I visit on Tuesdays and Wednesdays). I'm at Tokamachi today and the whole school has been preparing for tomorrow's event (I assume Tsunan has been too). This morning the students cleaned the school. Then each class in turn moved their chairs into the main hall for the ceremony. When they were all arranged, we had a practise run for tomorrow's ceremony along with bowing practise (deep and for a count of three) and school anthem singing practise. We also had a presentation ceremony for our Cross Country Ski team, who were very successful in a recent national ski tounament. The boys team came second and the girls were crowned champions of Japan! Well Done Team!

After the practise, school officially closed for the students, though most of them are still here doing club activities (training if it's sports club, scales and recitals if it's music club, etc). The teachers have a couple of meetings this afternoon so at the moment I'm left in the English Room on my own, sorting through the year's lesson plans with the intention of improving them.

We also have a new English teacher too. Horie-sensei left at the start of teh year on maternity leave so in her place we have Maruyama-sensei. He's a young teacher who used to teach at Muikamachi Koko with Kate Duis and Hakkai Koko with Dean Kirkness. He seems pretty friendly from the little chat we had before he was whisked off into a meeting. I wonder if he's into snowboarding too?

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