We're heading into the last bit of the school year and so my panicking 3rd years are getting ready for their high school entrance exams. 4 of my student are biting the bullet and going for a English program at a local high school. The exam is a killer because the course work is all in English, no Japanese allowed. Even worse, the kids have to sit an interview with both one of the Japanese teachers of English and the school's AET (Native speaker teacher in other words). So for the last few days I've been busy reading their speeches and statements. Now these kids have had three years of English with us. Two of them I worked with for over a month getting them ready for speech contest where they delivered a 5 minute speech in English and yet...
And yet...
And yet we get gems like someone writing how she wants to go to a university where every class except English is taught in English. Or another girl telling us that she wants to go to the school to get a more cosmopolitan outlook (Her speech was perfect, but when asked how to actually pronounce that word it came out rather interesting). Or another who's paper seemed to be saying she was going to teach the English department at that high school English instead of the other way around.
Sometimes you just want to cry... Kind of like our 4th student who burst into tears today during practice for reasons I never got straight before being dismissed.
Life as a teacher folks. Sometimes its great, sometimes though...
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