Wednesday, my co-teacher had to leave mid-way through our 7th grade class, and left me to teach alone the last twenty minutes. No problem I thought, the kids are busy with a writing activity and the class is on cruise control. Yet, within 10 minutes of my co-teacher's departure, I made one of the students cry when I helped him correct a spelling mistake. The more I tried to tell him it was OK, the more he sobbed. Meanwhile, the other kids snickered at him and I couldn't do anything without drawing more attention to the student. I felt pretty bad until my co-teacher told me later that this kid cries about something every week. She said, "Oh don't worry about it at all, he doesn't even know why he's crying."
Today, a 9th grader told me I had a "10-head body". Apparently, this is quite a compliment in Japan, but I haven't quite figured out what he meant.
Sure am glad its Friday, this has been a most peculiar and busy week.
Friday, November 10
TGIF
1 comment:
A ten-headed body means that your head is one tenth the size of your body. The ideal proportion for artists is 8:1. (From what some Japanese people have told me) Some Japanese people are self consious because their head-body ratio is 6:1, making their heads a little larger than most foreigners of non-Japanese descent.
I don't know if this is necessarily true, but consider it a compliment.
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