Toshima Elementary

So I have I think a pretty interesting entry today. First I went to Aikido practice yesterday, and this morning I spent 40 minutes with a bunch of 3rd Graders at Toshima Elementary. I'll speak about that first while its fresh in my mind.

Pretty much there were 6 of us, and we were broken into pairs for 3 classes. 3rd Graders, 4th Graders, and 6th Graders. I was paired up with Hannah (I'll double check her name, but I think that's what it was) from New Zealand. One of the English teachers explained to us what we had to do, and then 2 students led us to their class. Our lessen pretty much consisted of teaching the names of different foods to the 3rd Graders. We began by introducing ourselves, telling them our name, where we are from, what our hobbies are, what food we like in Japan. 2nd we had a bunch of cards with different kinds of foods, pronounced them, and had the students repeat after us. The two words that I had difficulty were "Parfait" and "Crepe", they are both French words and I had to think trying to remember how to say them in English.

We then had them say "I like" and "I don't like" to the foods before finally playing a game with them. The students were broken up into 4 teams, and the cards with different foods were placed in the floor. Me and Hannah would call out different foods and one member from each team would try to grab that card. The winner was the team that had the most cards. Well, that was the 40 minute class, now I am going to another school next week for the entire day that's actually paying the participants 2000 yen. We were volunteers here, but the school did give each one of us a bag of Apples and Bananas as a Thank you gift. Now I did not have a camera, nor do I think I would have the opportunity to take any, however a member of "Community outreach" (the office that organizes this at AIU)did take some pictures and told us we could get them later.