Tkhetsikhe'tenhawihtennihs

Mega-teaching day today. I've not been looking forward to this day for a while now, but at least it's over. It wasn't too bad in the end, though I never feel like I'm giving good lessons. For once my favourite class was one of the all boy ones, as they didn't mess about, they all participated, and understood quite well. Or might just have been that since I was sitting on the floor for the whole time I was quite desperate for the toilet during the first three lessons, which I took care of before the last one!

I must thank my mother, though, who put a lot of effort in to trying to plan my lessons. I didn't really use them at all, though, since she changed what I was meant to be teaching! Stupid woman. She paid me at least, though, and wanted to know if I could come back again, which means I couldn't have been that bad.

Not sure that I want to though! On the one hand I'm nicely filling up my schedule with extra activities: Tea Ceremony, Taiko and Aikido, but I'll need money to pay for them somehow. Kanashima-san phoned the Dojo for us today, and the Aikido lessons are on Thursday evenings and Sunday mornings. We have to attend the latter of these, which is the beginners' class. However, it is also the kids' class, so should be fun.

Going for a sing-song now. Our first performance is a week on Sunday! Scary.

By the way: "Tkhetsikhe'tenhawihtennihs" means "I am bringing sugar to somebody" in Mohawk, a language in Canada and USA. See the BBC.