English Camp

It's been so nice being back to Japan, but I'm about to head out again! I'm all packed, my apartment is clean, and I'm ready to head back to the airport in the morning to catch a plane to Thailand! Between my two trips I helped run an English camp. This post will be a short post, sorry, I should have a much better post after I come back from Phuket on the 18th.

English camp overall was pretty fun! I had a group of 7 girls I was in charge of. We had meals together and wrote diary entries and speeches in the evening. They were a great group! We made curry together and during free time they taught me a dance and we played card games. I also got to spend a lot of time with the other ALTs. We also had some other international students come visit one day for the students to have more of a chance to practice English. It as also a nice chance to see more of the two new ALTs. We had meetings at night after the students went to sleep and although we did spend time talking about work, it was nice just getting to hang out with everyone.

As part of the camp we all had to teach a different subject classes in English: Math, Geography, Music, English, and P.E. Every group of students took each class on a rotating schedule over two days. I taught the math class along with my friend David. We taught the students about the Fibonacci sequence and spiral. The students were not that excited to have a math class in English, but by the end of the classes they all said they really enjoyed the class. My supervisors, including the second highest person in the Kitakyushu Board of Education, also sat in on some of the class and told me they also loved the class. I was really happy about how my class and the whole camp turned out. We were nervous in the beginning, but it turned out everything was a lot fun!

After camp some of us went out to eat before we all crashed after a long few days. Last night I went out to Orange Door for a goodbye party for Vixay, a JET leaving this year. He DJed and we all had a great time! Today's been devoted to packing and cleaning. I know this is an extremely short post, but as I said before hopefully soon I will have a much better update!