mr. ontiveros wrote:
I am so proud of you for taking this endeavor!!!!! The communication
with the school and your class is wonderful. Your students sure have a
great deal of questions for you. You know, they are living this
experience through you and will never forget it. This is what teaching
is all about!!
thanks mr. o. it means the world to me that everyone's excited about this chance to study japanese culture and education up close... i hope when all this is said-and-done, everyone appreciates both our similarities and differences with japan much better.
mr. baron wrote:
> Glad you made it to the 100 yen store. Have you been to Tsukiji Fish
Market yet? It's a marine biologists paradise!
nope... no fish market for me... too many other distractions... and my companion for dinner the other night (he's taking me and a couple others to dinner WAY outside of tokyo tonight) asked us: "why do all americans want to go to the fish market? it's very smelly." i took that as a hint and did other things here in akasana instead the morning most went to the market.
> If you do happen to go back to a 100 yen store, could I implore you to
get me one of those games where you try to catch a wooden ball on
various places of a wooden handle? If you haven't seen'em yet, maybe
get one or more for your classroom, too. Kids went crazy for 'em.
got it. i'll do my best to locate them... i hope to get back to shinbuya tomorrow night, perhaps... it's probably one of the coolest places i've ever been in my life... i only say probably because i haven't seen ALL of tokyo yet, so i cannot be totally sure. what a cool town!
> Glad you made it to the 100 yen store. Have you been to Tsukiji Fish
Market yet? It's a marine biologists paradise!
nope... no fish market for me... too many other distractions... and my companion for dinner the other night (he's taking me and a couple others to dinner WAY outside of tokyo tonight) asked us: "why do all americans want to go to the fish market? it's very smelly." i took that as a hint and did other things here in akasana instead the morning most went to the market.
> If you do happen to go back to a 100 yen store, could I implore you to
get me one of those games where you try to catch a wooden ball on
various places of a wooden handle? If you haven't seen'em yet, maybe
get one or more for your classroom, too. Kids went crazy for 'em.
got it. i'll do my best to locate them... i hope to get back to shinbuya tomorrow night, perhaps... it's probably one of the coolest places i've ever been in my life... i only say probably because i haven't seen ALL of tokyo yet, so i cannot be totally sure. what a cool town!
brian p. wrote:
> hi, how is Japan?
it's great brian! how's school? has everyone shaped up and started doing the right thing for mrs. white, or do i have to come back?
> are you having fun?
i am having SO much fun, it's hard to believe... but i've been working a lot too... hopefully you've been reading this journal, and looking at my pictures to see how much i've done in the few days i've been here.
> randy says to say hi.
hi to randy!
> I miss you in class.what kind of food are you eating, Mcdonalds?
i miss you too... i miss all of you... i've been eating sushi, tempura, japanese stuff as much as possible... no mcdonalds yet... but there's one down the street from my hotel and i've been thinking it would be fun to eat there. i might acutally know how to say the name of the thing i'm ordering...
> I hope you get this, it is the first e-mail we have sent.
wow. i am honored.
> take some photos for me.
okay! i will.
> How tall are you compare to the people there?
taller... in some cases, much taller, in other cases, not too much taller...
> Mail me back later if you can.
done. thanks A LOT for writing... i'm glad someone's reading this stuff!
> hi, how is Japan?
it's great brian! how's school? has everyone shaped up and started doing the right thing for mrs. white, or do i have to come back?
> are you having fun?
i am having SO much fun, it's hard to believe... but i've been working a lot too... hopefully you've been reading this journal, and looking at my pictures to see how much i've done in the few days i've been here.
> randy says to say hi.
hi to randy!
> I miss you in class.what kind of food are you eating, Mcdonalds?
i miss you too... i miss all of you... i've been eating sushi, tempura, japanese stuff as much as possible... no mcdonalds yet... but there's one down the street from my hotel and i've been thinking it would be fun to eat there. i might acutally know how to say the name of the thing i'm ordering...
> I hope you get this, it is the first e-mail we have sent.
wow. i am honored.
> take some photos for me.
okay! i will.
> How tall are you compare to the people there?
taller... in some cases, much taller, in other cases, not too much taller...
> Mail me back later if you can.
done. thanks A LOT for writing... i'm glad someone's reading this stuff!
mrs. smith (and mrs. white) wrote:
Zach Baca was in the hospital overnight. He's home now, but crashed at the skate park (Bushmaster) yesterday afternoon and suffered a concussion and punctured lung. His mom called to get his homework since he won't be able to come back until Tuesday (he has a re-check dr. appointment on Monday). She said he didn't have a helmet on. :( We told her we'd email you to let you know what happened.
gosh, zach. i'm glad to know you're okay... but we've talked about the helmet thing before, haven't we... do you think maybe now you could start wearing a helmet... PLEASE?!? i know it's not cool... but going to the hospital with a concussion AND a punctured lung is a real DRAG. next time, save yourself a concussion, and just go to the hospital for the lung: GET A HELMET!
i'll be hoping you get well soon.
Zach Baca was in the hospital overnight. He's home now, but crashed at the skate park (Bushmaster) yesterday afternoon and suffered a concussion and punctured lung. His mom called to get his homework since he won't be able to come back until Tuesday (he has a re-check dr. appointment on Monday). She said he didn't have a helmet on. :( We told her we'd email you to let you know what happened.
gosh, zach. i'm glad to know you're okay... but we've talked about the helmet thing before, haven't we... do you think maybe now you could start wearing a helmet... PLEASE?!? i know it's not cool... but going to the hospital with a concussion AND a punctured lung is a real DRAG. next time, save yourself a concussion, and just go to the hospital for the lung: GET A HELMET!
i'll be hoping you get well soon.
mrs. coe's class in phoenix wrote:
We saw your pictures of Japan. We really like the sweet potato on the top of
the building. Alexis likes the big building with the Japanese words. Oswaldo
likes the Aleutian Islands. Jessica V. likes your airplane. Tiffany's favorite
is the conveyor belt food. Yadira enjoyed your birthday picture. We will go do
our math now. We also like to count in Japanese. Sincerely, Mrs. Coe's second
grade class in Phoenix.
wow! thanks for looking at all my pictures, everyone. i'm glad you're finding ways to use the things that i am doing here i japan to learn more about how people live in other parts of the world... i am having a great time here... and i've got to agree with you about the building with the big potato on top... isn't that the strangest thing you've ever seen on top of a building. i also liked the conveyor belt food a lot too. wouldn't it be fun if that's how lunch came to us at school?!
thanks for writing. please write again soon.
mr coe's class wrote:
we went to symphony. we didn't have time to read today. maybe we will read after lunch.
how was symphony? i hope it all went well. please write to me soon. tell me everythings going okay and you're reading and enjoying my journal, but that most of all: YOU'RE MAKING ME PROUD by doing your very best for mrs. white.
We saw your pictures of Japan. We really like the sweet potato on the top of
the building. Alexis likes the big building with the Japanese words. Oswaldo
likes the Aleutian Islands. Jessica V. likes your airplane. Tiffany's favorite
is the conveyor belt food. Yadira enjoyed your birthday picture. We will go do
our math now. We also like to count in Japanese. Sincerely, Mrs. Coe's second
grade class in Phoenix.
wow! thanks for looking at all my pictures, everyone. i'm glad you're finding ways to use the things that i am doing here i japan to learn more about how people live in other parts of the world... i am having a great time here... and i've got to agree with you about the building with the big potato on top... isn't that the strangest thing you've ever seen on top of a building. i also liked the conveyor belt food a lot too. wouldn't it be fun if that's how lunch came to us at school?!
thanks for writing. please write again soon.
mr coe's class wrote:
we went to symphony. we didn't have time to read today. maybe we will read after lunch.
how was symphony? i hope it all went well. please write to me soon. tell me everythings going okay and you're reading and enjoying my journal, but that most of all: YOU'RE MAKING ME PROUD by doing your very best for mrs. white.
good morning, all... happy to get a pretty decent report from mrs. white this evening... however, i must admit, i was disappointed to learn that she's had to make some adjustments to our GUIDELINES in order to make sure everyone's doing the right thing... what happened? i hope you will do everything you can to remind yourselves why we have our guidelines and why it's important we all follow them all the time...
i spent most of the day in meetings learning about how the japanese educational system works, and how they hope to change it to improve student achievement. the japanese are very concerned that their students are not good thinkers, just good memorizers. many people hope to change this, and the pressures that japanese students feel about the tests they have to take at 15 to get into high school, and again at 18 to get into college. but everyone seems to know that it's a long, difficult process that they're facing.
tonight, i rode the one of the many lines of the tokyo subway (a train that runs underground from place to place within a city) to a region of tokyo known as shinbuya. it was a lot of fun there, and i felt less like a tourist... shinbuya is a place for almost anyone. it's filled with millions of very fashionable, mtv-cool, hip young people as well as loud music, exciting restaurants, and a bunch of other attractions, like pachinko parlors (pachinko is a game that's a bit like pinball) and music stores. it looks a lot like las vegas, with giant tv screens and tons of well-dressed people walking the sidewalks staring at one another.
my new friends, ginny, chi-shim, molly and i visited a 100-yen store where i bought lisa a few gifts... things i will likely bring in to show you, too, i'm sure, when we discuss our upcoming japan-school-days... many teachers here are jealous of our idea to do this and have asked if they can steal the idea for their own students... i always say yes.
we also had kaitenzushi finally! that's the sushi that comes to you on a conveyor belt... the kind of plate the sushi is on determines how much it costs... but all of it ws honestly pretty inexpensive, compared to sushi prices in the u.s., which are usually pretty expensive. i paid Y1,115 for my whole dinner, including green tea... i think i ate 7 or 8 plates of sushi... that's about 200 yen per plate... or about $2.00... incredible deal! and such fun to watch the sushi slide past you the whole time... we need a kaitensushi bar in flagstaff...
did you forget to write me back yesterday, or are we getting our days mixed up? please write soon.
i spent most of the day in meetings learning about how the japanese educational system works, and how they hope to change it to improve student achievement. the japanese are very concerned that their students are not good thinkers, just good memorizers. many people hope to change this, and the pressures that japanese students feel about the tests they have to take at 15 to get into high school, and again at 18 to get into college. but everyone seems to know that it's a long, difficult process that they're facing.
tonight, i rode the one of the many lines of the tokyo subway (a train that runs underground from place to place within a city) to a region of tokyo known as shinbuya. it was a lot of fun there, and i felt less like a tourist... shinbuya is a place for almost anyone. it's filled with millions of very fashionable, mtv-cool, hip young people as well as loud music, exciting restaurants, and a bunch of other attractions, like pachinko parlors (pachinko is a game that's a bit like pinball) and music stores. it looks a lot like las vegas, with giant tv screens and tons of well-dressed people walking the sidewalks staring at one another.
my new friends, ginny, chi-shim, molly and i visited a 100-yen store where i bought lisa a few gifts... things i will likely bring in to show you, too, i'm sure, when we discuss our upcoming japan-school-days... many teachers here are jealous of our idea to do this and have asked if they can steal the idea for their own students... i always say yes.
we also had kaitenzushi finally! that's the sushi that comes to you on a conveyor belt... the kind of plate the sushi is on determines how much it costs... but all of it ws honestly pretty inexpensive, compared to sushi prices in the u.s., which are usually pretty expensive. i paid Y1,115 for my whole dinner, including green tea... i think i ate 7 or 8 plates of sushi... that's about 200 yen per plate... or about $2.00... incredible deal! and such fun to watch the sushi slide past you the whole time... we need a kaitensushi bar in flagstaff...
did you forget to write me back yesterday, or are we getting our days mixed up? please write soon.
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