Today was a welcomed change of pace. I went to Onari Elementary and the kids were all great and energetic. I am going to be teaching there a lot more compared to last year. Only ten times for each grade last year, and this year 35 times for the 5th and sixth graders alone. The teachers changed since last year, and they even have a female principal, which is not common. She had pretty good English and talked to me in English in order to get info for the introduction that she gave me in front of the new first graders.

The kids were all very good, which is kind of a change from the middle school, that i realized as soon as i came back and one of the kids flipped me off from the top floor when i was coming in since lunch had just finished. I mean seriously, i look at Japanese translations of the F word and other expletives, and they do not translate well. I serious believe in the idea that the Japanese language has no expletives, or concept of it. I kind of wanted to just hit the kid real hard to give him a good lesson to show him just exactly what that means and put it into a culturally apt situation, but i can't. AAAARRRRGHH! I hope the kids in the bigger cities aren't like this. It sucks to know Japanese sometimes, because you see how rude some of these kids can be. No respect, just no respect sometimes. Even to other teachers. I love the American idea of education more and more everyday. Seriously, the teacher needs to have a room, and not the kids with the same room. The kids need to move to show them that the room is the teacher's domain, and you should respect that.

Oh well, i get Monday off to take the written driving exam. That will be fun.... not. But it isn't hard at all i hear. Just ten questions, and they are easy. It's the physical driving test that will be hard.