SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
Sunday was a nice lazy day. In the evening, I set out to plan a lesson for Kogyo. I guessed (correctly) that when I was told to “maybe bring a lesson plan next week?” it meant “You'd better have a lesson plan for me on Monday.” Planning lessons at Kogyo and Nishi is harder than Koko because I have so much more freedom. With how complex English is and how little my students know, it's difficult to narrow down the next important thing to cover.
I eventually decided on my original topic: directions. Directions are very important. For me, living in Japan, I can ask where something is but I cannot understand the Japanese responses I get. This means that I live in fear of getting lost because it's harder (though as I've always, as of yet, proved, not impossible) to get back home. I was also inspired by another JET who said it worked really well at their school.
So, off I went and dedicated my entire lesson to trying to figure out how to best make my students understand directions so future generations of non-Japanese speaking Americans (like me!) won't get lost and die in Japanese suburbia.
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