Last Friday I was sailing through the only class of the week (Wednesday and Thursday were holidays for Golden Week) when I heard (from my trusty TA) that Saturday May 7 was a special day for Thursday classes! I freaked out, shocked and panicked, because I had told my two Thursday classes that I'd see them next on May 12, Thursday, and nothing about Saturday.
What happened?? In March or so, when I make the schedules for spring and fall semester classes for the new year, I am very careful to watch out for the strange times when some Saturday is given over to another day's classes to make up the quota of meetings, and of course incorporate such days into my schedules, but for whatever reason, I didn't notice the May 7 Saturday for Thursdays when I made my schedules. For the English Conversation class it's not a big deal really, cause they didn't have any particular homework (they're giving short self-introduction speeches now), but for my Reading and Writing class, it was a problem, because I had worked out a detailed schedule for homework (reading and writing etc.) and given it to them and gone through it with them, including a last day July 21st when classes have already ended (I found out Friday). SO anyway I had to send emails to both classes Friday after lunch telling them that indeed we were having classes on Saturday... Then I had to make a new correct schedule and distribute and explain it in class, though nearly ten students were absent (probably cause they'd made other plans when they thought we weren't having classes). Yesterday was difficult... period 4 and 5 classes on a usual day where I'm recovering energy spent during the week of classes. Luckily, last week was Golden Week, so I only had classes on Friday the 6th, but all Saturday was surreal. I feel sorry for the poor Reading and Writing students, who didn't have time to do homework before class and especially who thought they'd have no class Saturday but suddenly found out on Friday that they would... That was the first time I've ever made that mistake... and I hope the last. **One good bit of news: I have (with the help of photos I took of the classes) managed to memorize pretty much all the names and faces (or I should say eyes and hairdos, because they're all wearing masks all the time) of all of my 150 or so students. ***Though I still have a bit of fun trouble with Ayami, Ayari, and Ayuri in one class, and Hiyori and Hiyori and Yui and Yui in another class. Not to mention Daichi and Daiki, Ryoya and Ryo, Ohtaro and Kotaro, Ryuto and Ryuki and so on in other classes!***
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