More Halloween Parties
Today I went into Daiichi early with Rushen and Binks. Partly because I was bored and partly because I wanted to help: Sakaguchi-san (the head gardener of the English Garden) has an English class twice every Thursday. From today, some of us are going to go to each lesson to speak English for 15 minutes and then practice Japanese for the remaining 15 minutes. It was quite fun, though I didn't say much, and neither did they. Even when they were supposed to talk to us in Japanese they didn't really say anything much. I think it's a lack of confidence, maybe.
Then we had our two Japanese lessons. More Kanji today: 花 (flower), 茶 (tea), 肉 (flesh, meat), 文 (pattern, letter, sentence), 字 (letter, character), 物 (thing), 牛 (cattle, cow, bull, ox), 馬 (horse), 鳥 (bird), 魚 (fish). Kanji count: 75.
After all this I had yet another couple of Halloween parties. This time for Mika. She is a friend of Noriko's, but Liz normally works for her. But now I'm in the door and so will be able to take any classes Liz cannot, which maybe quite a few as Liz is starting to work at Linden Hall soon.
Two parties today, but each was only an hour long. The kids were a lot better behaved and more confident in these classes, which was nice. Though I've yet to find any of them with any real English skills. They always need prompting from me or the teacher, and will never speak in sentences.
The parties were practically the same as the one's I did for Noriko. I even the decorations were the same ones! Thus, I did introductions, and then made up something about my Halloweens as a child. A little quiz, and then flash cards. A few more games and another food tasting session. Then after that we made ghosts! You start with a plastic glove and draw a face on it. Then you put some pointy chocolate things in the fingers and fill it with popcorn before tieing it closed with a pipecleaner. Mika found that name hilarious!
Mika was as nice as Noriko and gave me a party bag also:
- Some Haribo
- A Halloween pog-like thing
- The ghost I made
- A ghost candle in a yellow bag
- The leftover chocolates
- The left of over Ritz crackers
posted by Edd @ Thursday, October 27, 2005
5 Comments:
I'd be fascinated to hear your childhood experiences of Halloween! Did you have any? Except with the Floras in Rome maybe?
Ed:
Hmmmm .... Any ideas who "haha" is when she/he is at home???
S 'n D.
Ed:
"Then you put some pointy chocolate things in the fingers and fill it with popcorn before tieing it closed with a pipecleaner. Mika found that name hilarious!" Eh, which "name" was that ???
"The left of over Ritz crackers"? Polticized crackers? Come now!
S. 'n D.
"haha" (母) is Japanese for one's own mother, as opposed to "okaasan" (お母さん) which is used to refer to someone else's mother. Hence comments from "haha" are from my mother!
As for the funny name: "pipe cleaners". It does sound silly when you think of what they're used for nowadays. I'm not sure what the Japanese call them.
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