Scary Night

Today was not so interesting but not too bad. We had two Japanese lessons: five came to the first and four to the second. In the afternoon we had another composition to do about “an interesting day” so, I wrote about going to Nagasaki with Hannah. I then waited around with Flick as we were teaching at Linden Hall. We went to the English garden where I wrote up a previous composition neatly and did some homework. Linden Hall was ok: Rushen, Flick and I took the kids outside and played games with them. Rushen had purportedly only got up 20 minutes previously and still had a massive hangover from last night! I do not think that the kids jumping on him helped all that much and he felt decidedly worse for wear afterwards.

We played Thumper – you pass the turn around a circle, saying each others’ names and performing their “action” – also the knives game – you have to throw the knife around the circle and catch it – and then we played stuck in the mud. The kids seemed to enjoy it, though they lost concentration quickly during the explanation. Paul, one of the Linden Hall teachers, did come up to Flick and I and tell us that we all do a good job: Keely, their daughter, supposedly mentions us a lot and always wants to come to the after-school lessons. That was nice to know.

Afterwards, I came back and ate in the canteen with Ciarán. In the evening, I watched “Naked Gun” on the TV with some of the others, before we all watched “Saw” together. Most people seemed to enjoy it, at least by the end. I think without seeing it through to the end, it might be more disturbing. There's a sequel as well, that I want to see!