FUCK!

I'M SO LATE! MOM IS GOING TO KILL ME!

Not really, but I am late. Sorry. To all three of you.

Anyways, I forgot it was lent. So starting now, my Lenten promise this year to to update this blog.

It's that time of year again. What time is it? GRADUATION TIMEEEEEEEEE!

The thing that sucks is that I didn't realize that I had my last classes with my 8th grade students this week until I taught my last class (I have 4 different 9th grade classes at the school i'm teaching at right now). I'm supposed to have classes this week, but they are all canceled because of the graduation ceremony preparation and some of the students still needing to take their high school entrance exams.

It sucks cause I got really cool with the 9th graders this year. I was cool with the 8th graders last year, but I only got to know them for about 4 months before they graduated. I've known the current graduating class since they were in 8th grade, so i've was lucky enough to spend more time with these guys.

However, like I said, I only realized I was teaching my final class when I was teaching the class. So what did I teach them?

Look at them studying so hard. Don't let the picture fool you, however. Out of the 4 9th (3年生, or 3rd graders in the junior high school system) grade classes I teach here 3年4組 (3rd grade, 4th class) are the wildest . So what is it that they are working on the has all their attention?

I asked some of the 3年1組 what songs they wanted to know the meaning to, and one of the boys yelled out this song. He meant it as a joke, so I don't think he expected me to make a work sheet out of it. Can't see it? Let me blow it up a bit:

Dammit. Still blurry. Anyways, the first few lines of the main part read:

"This ain't a song for the _________________

No silent prayer for the faith _________________

And I ain't gonna be just a _____________ in the crowd

You're gonna hear my ____________ when I shout it out loud"

Still don't know it? Then you don't deserve to know. There you go. A little American butt-rock. In your butt.

I had to play the song through two times before the students stopped laughing. Supposedly it's the background music to some muscle man show here in Japan.

So anyways, after class I took a few pictures so y'all can see what my students look like. I'll try and have more up in the coming days (it's my lenten promise, remember?). I'll be running to my other big junior high school on graduation day as well, so you get to see 'dem peeps from the east end (not really the east end...).

Dudes are always posted up in the back acting like they're all hard, and the girls are always up front acting all cute. Why is that? Whatever. All of them are really good kids, and I'm gonna miss them. Luckily, i'll probably run into quite a few of them at the local supermarket after High School gets out. That's the kick-it spot out in the country side.

"What 'chu doin' after school yo?"

"Me? I'm go'n to Elena."

Word. To your お母さん