Tuesday, January 25, 2011

A week in my life in Numbers (Jan 17-21)

Might be interesting... who knows!  It has to be more interesting than reading my usual train of thought blog entries. Interpret as you will.

MONDAY:
0 = classes I had today
2 = oreos I ate for breakfast
7 = days since I have been able to shower in my own apartment
4 = days until the kanken (kanji test...the one that kids here take to test their kanji abilities... I am taking the same level as elementary 3rd graders)
7 = consecutive days of snow
127 = my guess at how much snow has accumulated so far in 2011 (in cm)
15 = Kamen Rider Agito episodes I watched after school  (Kamen Rider = Masked Rider...so its a guy who can transform into a hero and he rides around and saves the day.  Kamen Rider has been on TV in Japan since the 70s, but I am working my way through the heisei era series, so ones from 1989~)
2 = times I shoveled snow today
2 = times I fell asleep at school today
5 = oreos I ate for dinner
3 = practice kanji tests I took today
1.77245 = the square root of pi

TUESDAY:

9 = hours of sleep I got last night (I am still tired)
3 = cups of coffee I had this morning
1 = classes I had today
1 = consecutive days with NO snow
3 = days until the kanken
2 = careless mistakes I made on the practice kanji test I took today.
15 = minutes it took me to get to school today due (usually its 5)
5 = minutes late I was to school (grr)
4 = times 3rd year boys fell on the floor and piled on top of each other trying to get a pen as we played a game similar to "spoons"
1 = days since I have had a working shower in my apartment (!!!!!)
1 = people who showed up unexpected this morning to fix the shower but had to be rescheduled because of the whole "unexpected" thing.
1 = times I heard my Vice Principal transfer a call to the nurse and tell her "It is a call from the flu."
3 = drips of curry I found on my pants after lunch... LAME
17 = days until I have to make a very important decision
1 = bits of good news I received that will greatly influence said decision
3 = granny squares I finished crocheting today
0 = snow accumulation for today (thank GOD)
61 = year I was born in the Showa Era (funny Japan calendar and way of keeping track of time... )

WEDNESDAY:
2 = days until the kanken
2 = number of cups of water I carried downstairs to try to unfreeze the cover to my water switch.  No success... I will admit easy defeat but I was running late...again.
2 = days until the Kamen Rider W movie is out on DVD!!!!!!!!!!!
2 = classes I had today.
1= classes taught alone today
2=glue sticks I finished while making my board game
1 = number of teachers who asked me to send something from ebay to my house in the US and then to Japan to avoid the import tax.  Does that work?
24 = students wearing masks during English class today (out of 26)
2 = times I apologized to the teacher who sits next to me for hitting him with my drawer. If he sat up straight and had his left elbow on his own desk, this could be easily avoided.
3 = number of worthless 3rd year boys who clean the teachers' room with me every day... and are bad at it.
4 = typos I found on my board game.  :(
0 = consecutive days without snow.
23 = current year in the Japanese calendar.  it is Heisei 23.

THURSDAY:
1 = days until the kanken
1 = days until the Kamen Rider W movie is out on DVD!!!  (I have been waiting and waiting!)
4 = classes I taught today (it was a busy day)
1 = students who gave me a present today :)
2 = cakes I received for helping the one teacher with his ebay stuff.
0 = consecutive days without snow
3 = number of scrabble tiles that were returned to me at the end of the day... I wonder which set they go with... and I am too lazy to find out.
1 = teachers I surprised when I asked if he knew that the Board of Education was coming next week to observe my teaching and that I chose his class to do the lesson with.  He was REALLY surprised.
3 = times I tripped myself up while sorting cards.  I made sets of cards that deliberately have mistakes.  The students will have to make sets (i.e. bad, worse, worst) but I made a 4th card for each adjective to try to trick them.  As I was sorting, the more I looked at badder, the correcter ;)  it seemed.
4 = cm of snow on my car when I left school.  Not bad, considering it snowed ALL day.  Really wet snow.


FRIDAY:
0 = days until the kanken  (yikes!)
1 = questions I messed up for sure on the kanken
1 = blog entries I wrote this week
3 = classes I had today.
1 = Kamen Rider W DVDs I bought today!
2 = stores I had to go to to find Kamen Rider! 
8 = cloves of garlic I ate with dinner (yakiniku)
2 = desserts I had  (tee hee)
1 = kanji books I bought to start studying for the next level of the kanji test.


Ok.. that is all I have.

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