kids in the hall 2

another note on working here: its probably both the easiest and most rewarding job ill have at once. a quick elaboration on both points...

easiest - i only really work 30 hours a week and still get paid for full time hours. sure, i have to get to school an hour early on tuesdays and wednesdays to prepare for kids classes, and theres some prep time involved, but its all very minor stuff really. they called me today to work some overtime but i was at the gym and never called back. and while half of the kids classes are tough, the other half are a breeze, and even the bad kids classes have really cute kids in them. on saturday on the subway i saw one, a 7 year old named ryuu, with his mom...his mom was really nice and tried to tell me in broken english how all of the moms in the class liked what i was doing with their kids. that was nice. names of japanese kids in my class that are cute: haruka, tomoka, mayu, akane, mitsuki, taishi, hirotaka, reishi, sayaka.

rewarding - its nice to see some of the kids improve every week. the moms and staff are all very polite and appreciative of what you do even when in north american standards its not much at all, ie: collecting name tags at the end of class, cleaning up the classroom when finished, telling the moms whats for homework, ect... and some of the kids just make you laugh. i have this one kids class on thursday with 4 students that are all about 3 years old, each of them have their guardian in the class with them. theres mitsuki whos dead serious about everything until you say hello and then goes into a crazy face; reishi who gets up and hugs me during class every five minutes when hes not running away from his mom; yuki whos either sleeping, crying, or laughing; and akane who gives me a gaudy stare/smile throughout the whole class and is basically the classroom leader among the students.