So I am at a junior high — equivalent of grades 7, 8 and 9, but they are called first year, second year and third year. Until yesterday I had only done my self introduction to 3rd year classes, who have considerably more English to work with (although their professor still translates a lot of what I say).

For the first years, my team teacher warned me they really only know sentences such as “I like/don’t like” and “I have”… please keep it simple!  She suggested there be a worksheet with questions to help the students focus.

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Like magic, the internet guy came. So I went to the electronics store to buy a wireless router. Then I saw this:

I thought it was advertising the fridge but I asked someone about it and it looks like you could actually win the pineapple ‘gift’!!