Observing and being observed

Today and yesterday were observation days. Yesterday the 3b class was pretty well behaved for themselves. The class went well and i only skipped one line on the reading. I am sorry i just have a huge link in my mind from "fish and chips" and "they tasted great." i skipped the part where "Mr. white took Yuki to a shop which sold fish and chips." i just have to comment on the food first before anything else. It went well, and the superintendent was there. The parts i do understand the most in the meetings afterwords are the praises. So that's kind of good, and true but i sometimes i just think it should be a natural thing to be aware of student's reactions and places where they may have trouble. Today i went to Onari after 3a elective English. The elective class was good, and the Onari kids are always awesome. Taught the littler ones fruits, veggies, and i like. The older ones got days of the week and school subjects. Lunch was chicken curry and was pretty good. Then i came back to the middle school after Onari for two English elective classes. The first was okay, but it felt like most of the kids weren't paying attention. I had to speak a lot of Japanese because the teacher has been sick and i wanted to spare his voice because he sounded strained in the beginning of class. After the double translations class using the wingdings as an "alien language" and using stitch, i did my preposition class for the the other 2nd year class. A person from the company came over to record me and i think i did pretty well. It definitely went over better than the first preposition class i taught. I used more sheets and examples. Overall much better, i am glad that one was video taped instead of the first one. My second elective classes are usually better than the first ones for the a or b classes. It just keeps snowing and snowing, i have to fill up my gas tank for the heater this weekend for sure.