New School!

I teach at 2 schools in Japan.  One of them I only teach one week out of a month and this week was the first week I've been to it.  It was a pretty awesome experience seeing where the schools differ in terms of strictness and how they run things slightly differently.
It was also a blast being the 'new ALT' again where all the students do double-takes and want to get to know you again.  It should be fun coming here only once a month as each time I come it should be a little novelty to see me again :P

The teachers are also a bit younger with 3 other teachers around 25 and most of them speak some English so I can talk to a few more people in the staff room.




Inter school competition is very very competitive.  All students are required to be a member of a 'club/activity' and will often stay after school every day of the week to practice and often entire Saturdays are spent at school doing club stuff.  It's quite common to see students going to and from school on the weekends.



This is how attendance is taken haha



The desks are always the same at every school and slide around really really easily to make groups or large tables for lunch times and cleaning times.



most schools have access to a big traditional drum (usually quite expensive) for various traditional events/ceremonies.