It's cherry blossom time! I was supposed to go picnic-ing and hanami-ing in Himeji today, but the weather is not kind. But I'm secretly happy, cos I wanted to sleep in and be lazy:P. But I really do wanna go see that castle.
Experienced the 'changing of the desks' the other day.
So in Japan, teachers tend to follow their students into the next year level. Teachers are generally assigned a year level, rather than simply a subject. They also move around to the homeroom classes, the students don't move to a different classroom - except for certain subjects, like music or home-ec, that require special rooms. At the end of the school year, lots of teachers move to a different school, and they don't find out til the VERY last minute.
The remaining teachers, plus the new ones, all move desks. Why? Japan is all about groups/hierarchy yada yada yada. So the first year teachers all sit together, likewise 2nd & 3rd year teachers. When they all change year level they have to move their stuff to the corresponding group of desks in the staff room. You'd think they could just stay where they are and change the assignation but.. no. Maybe the placement of the section of desks reflects status or something. Like, the first year desks are furthest from the principle's desk.
Either way, the changing of the desks was chaos, and really funny. Can't explain why exactly.
Japan, you make me scratch my head.
PS - I'm not changing school, I'm assigned to Oike for another year. Not sure how I feel about it, but I have new JTEs. Here we go again!
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