I went to a special college called Hanover, but this is not the time or place to get into that. Anyhow, I still correspond with about five professors, which is evidence of how special a place it really was. Last week my student teaching supervisor emailed me about contibuting a photo of me with students and couple paragraphs about my experiences on JET for an article in a quarterly published Hanover magazine. I must submit these materials by next Friday, so I have been having teachers taking photos of me left and right, trying to find the perfect one to submit. I am unsure if the folks publishing the article want an action shot or a posed shot, so I will submit two and let them chose. Here are a few from Monday. It's always funny to look at photos of yourself and see how ridiculous you look sometime while teaching.

These photos are of one of my favorite classes. 1st graders. The teacher is a hoot and we all just end up laughing a lot and get along really well.

And here you can see a ridiculous looking face I made.

Such a cutie!

Too bad his "peace" is covering his face.

This class is NOT my favorite. 4th graders. In fact, this used to be my least favorite, but they are gradually getting better due to their capable and patient teacher who is getting them into behavioral shape. It was one of the kids in this class who last year I yelled very forcefully in his face after he repeatedly called me a "gaijin" under his breath at the lunch table. But some of these kids are very smart and interested in English. The class as a whole know their numbers from 1-20 the best of all the down elementary school kids. Some people think 6th grade is the most difficult age to teach in Japan, but I have most of my behavior problems or punk kids in 4th grade.

Number karuta.

I like this one...

What a face!