One day my Kyoto-sensei asked me what my hobbies were, so I jokingly replied that my hobby is to goro goro (ゴロゴロすること), which means to lie around and be lazy. He made this face and noise of surprise and was like, nah, c'mon, be serious. We laughed, and the secretary joined in our laughing, and he was also surprised that I said such a thing. I then struggled to list actual hobbies since goro goro-ing is legit my hobby. I like to be lazy and do nothing and relax at home. This is why I have been having trouble updating all these social media things because I come home and sit under my kotatsu and watch Netflix and Youtube and nap. It's so cold, too, so once I get under that blanket, I don't want to move or do anything that requires leaving the warmth, ha ha. I laugh, but I cry a little inside.
Anyways, my Kyoto-sensei then went around telling everyone that my hobby is to goro goro, which produced much laughter. Thanksssssssssssssssssssss.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Friday, February 20, 2015
Staying Positive
Hiiiii my dear readers,
So one of the things about how happy you are in life is how you perceive situations. If you focus on the negative, then the situation will suck, and you'll feel like everything sucks, and then everything actually will suck. If you focus on the positive, a.k.a. look on the bright side, then even if there are negatives, you won't feel as suck or even you'll feel better even if it did suck. At least, I feel like perception functions this way for me.
Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that I'm normally a cheerful person, but I will gossip and bash things and actions so quickly. If I start even looking at one negative thing, then the rest of the conversation goes to shit, and it becomes a "misery loves company" gab fest.
This is what I mean.
I was planning a lesson with a teacher, and the thing is, our students have finished the textbook, and the last grammar point in the textbook was past tense, both regular and irregular. We've been doing activities to practice the past tense for like three weeks now. So I asked my teacher if maybe we could change it up a bit and review some other topic or just not make past tense the focus of the entire class time. She agreed that past tense was getting old (ha ha). Then I asked her what we should do, and she seemed to be at a loss and kept passing the idea ball back to me.
I suggested that maybe one activity we could do is listen to a piece of a popular American song and have students fill in the blanks for words they should know in the song.
Ah, that's too difficult for them. (In Japanese)
My teacher training kicked in. Then I suggested how to scaffold the activity- how we could modify the activity to still address the same listening objective but put the task to the ability level of the students, "Okay, how about instead of blanks, I'll give them two or three words to choose from and they have to circle the word they hear?"
Hmmm, but that sounds not fun.
So one of the things about how happy you are in life is how you perceive situations. If you focus on the negative, then the situation will suck, and you'll feel like everything sucks, and then everything actually will suck. If you focus on the positive, a.k.a. look on the bright side, then even if there are negatives, you won't feel as suck or even you'll feel better even if it did suck. At least, I feel like perception functions this way for me.
Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that I'm normally a cheerful person, but I will gossip and bash things and actions so quickly. If I start even looking at one negative thing, then the rest of the conversation goes to shit, and it becomes a "misery loves company" gab fest.
This is what I mean.
I was planning a lesson with a teacher, and the thing is, our students have finished the textbook, and the last grammar point in the textbook was past tense, both regular and irregular. We've been doing activities to practice the past tense for like three weeks now. So I asked my teacher if maybe we could change it up a bit and review some other topic or just not make past tense the focus of the entire class time. She agreed that past tense was getting old (ha ha). Then I asked her what we should do, and she seemed to be at a loss and kept passing the idea ball back to me.
I suggested that maybe one activity we could do is listen to a piece of a popular American song and have students fill in the blanks for words they should know in the song.
Ah, that's too difficult for them. (In Japanese)
My teacher training kicked in. Then I suggested how to scaffold the activity- how we could modify the activity to still address the same listening objective but put the task to the ability level of the students, "Okay, how about instead of blanks, I'll give them two or three words to choose from and they have to circle the word they hear?"
Hmmm, but that sounds not fun.
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