This morning I woke up to a heavy down pour! I was so happy! It was 27C this morning and when I got home from school my apartment was (and still is) 24.5C!! The only way i've been able to get my apartment that cool has been to turn on the AC for a few hours!  Now it's just naturally cool! I love it!!! Yesterday was a scorcher! It was 37C plus humidex! And today it's nice and cool.  There is a typhoon (#9) hitting Fukushima and that's why it's raining. But thankfully it is missing Iwaki. T's going to rain right through Saturday.  So we have rain, but not the high winds or storms.  I can live with that!  It's going to be cool for the next 3 days and then its going to get hot again.  I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts!

When I got to school this morning one of the teachers came in behind me while I was putting my music away. As he went by me he said, "Good morning Kasey!"  I said good morning and laughed to myself. I had been told it would happen so I wasn't upset by it, I thought it was kinda funny. It's the first time it's happened.  Kasey was here for 3 years before me and I've taken her place.  About 30 seconds later as he's finished changing his showes, he looked up quickly and started to apologize because he just realized that he called me the wrong name. He used my name that time so I would know that he did know it.  I had to bite back the smile until he was gone. lol

Today was another day of self-introductions. Grade 5s again today.  It turns out that there are only 3 classes for grade 5 and the 4th class is a Special Ed. I was told there would be 4 students...but there were about 10. They ranged from grade 1 through to grade 6.  That was different. FUN! but different. All the kids wanted to tealk non-stop. One boy, in grade one, kept interupting to ask me how to say things in English (whale, magnet, etc). They were a lot of fun!  Questions time was great too. One boy tried 3 times to ask me a question and the first 2 times he didn't actually have a questions. He just wanted to make sure he'd get a chance to ask, so he put his hand up. His homeroom teacher told him to sit back down and think of a questions first.  The third time he had a question ready.

I think that class is going to be a lot of fun to teach.  Izumi seems to be ahead of Izumi Noth in its lessons. But because I started at Izumi North first, Izumi North is catching up.

I had my photo taken for the school yearbook today.
The grade ones finished school at 2 pm today. It's weird watching all the kids go home at different times.  The grade 2s went home at 2:30.

Kasey left me this really awesome umbrella! I walked to school inthe rain this morning with my bad on my back and it was dry when I got to school! That's how big the umbrella is. Usually my backpack would be wet when I get to school. But not today!

Today was another day where I finished teaching by lunch time and then had nothing to do until 4pm.  Lunch finishes at 1pm, so that leaves 3 hours to wander, prepare future lessons, read or study.  

Monday I taught grade 1s and I brought my mascot (Canadian doll) - Arianna - to calss with me. The kids loved her.  When I sat her down on my desk she leaned forward so that her head rested on her feet.  She's top heavy so she either flops forward or backward.  So I made her flop forward and told the kids that she was tired because in Canada it was still yesterday night and she should be sleeping. The kids thought that was neat.

So it's been a good week so far, even better now that it's raining!  Hopefully the rest of the week will be just as good!

Saturday I'm going to the Space Park in Koriyama!! I'm really looking forward to it! YAY!!! Space camp here I come!!!   I just have to get through the next 2 days of classes first! lol