Day 15: English at 7:30

A student I know pretty well has expressed an interest in one-on-one English lessons, so we agreed to meet at 7:30 at school. Meeting a student so early in the morning is a bit crazy for me, since I usually don't even leave home until about 7:45, but it's not that crazy for a student, since they sometimes have extra early morning classes. Besides, since the girl in question usually gets to school at 7:30 anyway and is busy with basketball practice after school, meeting before school seemed to be our best option.

Until this morning, I had never left home at 7:00 to go to school. Even though I didn't enjoy getting up really early, I did enjoy seeing a bunch of elementary school kids walking to school. Way back when I first got here, I occasionally walked to school with a fellow teacher, starting at about 7:35, and back then we saw quite a few kids walking to school, too, so this morning's walk reminded me a bit of those bygone days...

I met the student and chatted with her for about 30 minutes. Her English is already pretty good, so my goal is simply to try to improve it as much as possible. The kids generally learn a lot of useless English, as well as a lot of Japanese English, so when I work one-on-one with students, I try to weed out all of that garbage and teach them "real" English... (to be continued)