Whew--back in the classroom! The over-too-soon summer vacation is long gone. (So is my birthday, last week...)
It is good to meet students again, as well as my colleagues, and to go walk on our campus and go to my office and so on. I even managed to get all my first day handouts printed and copied and organized all right... And I memorized the names and faces of two classes of thirty kids, reconfirmed the names and faces of about 120 other students, too. So things are starting well enough... **Some names are hard to distinguish, like Rensho, Reishi, Ryosei, Ryuhei, Yusei, Yushin, or Izuha, Hozuka, Ikuho... There've a few memorable moments so far, especially as the students in the English conversation type classes start doing their self-introduction speeches and talking about what they did in summer vacation etc. One guy said he's an uncle with three little nephews; one girl has three rescue cats while another girl wants a cat; one guy won a thousand dollars gambling in an another Asian country somehow and is wondering when to turn it into yen (because the yen is so weak against the dollar now, but may get weaker still...); one girl went from being a volleyball player in high school to a lacrosse manager at our university; one guy has a part time job in a theater where he gets to see movies for a discount; one guy likes scary suspense movies and music like Silence of the Lambs and Marilyn Manson; one guy hates worms because of an experience he had age seven; one guy said that a customer in the clothes store he works part time in requested a shirt made of 60% cotton, and when he (the student) found one with 61%, the guy said it wouldn't do... I really like finding stuff out like that... and I realize that when I retire I'll really miss it.
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Jefferson Peters (JP)
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December 2023
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