"Oshiete! Emily-Sensei!"

Mark and I received our engagement session photos today! We are so lucky to not only have all the image files, but also a beautiful custom book of the best photographs! We are very nervous during the whole photography session, but the pictures turned out…

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nomadicbee:

Peek into the stall to see if one of my girls was done using the potty.

What do I see?

Her straddling the toilet backwards, attempting to pee like a boy.

“What are you doing?!”

“This is how my Joon pees!”

‘My Joon’ being her brother.

Sometimes I feel like I’m raising a pack of wolf cubs in really cute uniforms and accessories, and not teaching English. 

This is my life haha. Except I usually have boy toilet issues…
My favorite/most horrific was when a boy doing toilet training pooped in the urinal. He was so proud because it was his first time doing it at school. We were like, “Uh, well, great job pooping, but please use the toilet next time.”
I have no experience potty training or teaching toilet manners other than in Japan, so sometimes when I see them doing something strange, I’m not really sure if it’s normal, the Japanese way, or just weird. Like girls who take all their clothes off to pee or boys who would rather pee sitting down… The things I have googled since I became a preschool teacher are quite interesting haha.

First day of real school today - disaster. Five kids throwing sh*t fits ALL DAY LONG. One girl escaped despite the gates being locked, thankfully the woman who walks her dog all day found her and brought her back as we were all panicking. The diapers are back. Three “potty-trained”kids peed themselves, uncountable numbers of wet diapers, one kid threw up by accident, one on purpose, no poo though…yet. They struggled to eat mommies’ bento, and mommies are all lazy or something because none of them were cute, and some were only onigiri/rice balls. School lunch tomorrow is going to be a nightmare.

We still have no schedule or class list for after school lessons, and apparently I teach all week. I did kindergarten and juku today and I’m exhausted. How will I do it all week?

It has been really windy the past few days, and it was horrible, blowing against me the whole way home. Almost had Mark make dinner, but decided it was better for my sanity to do it because cooking and baking usually help me relax.
Midway through washing the dishes the hot water died, and when I turned to check the hot water heater box, of course it’s broken. It broke a few months ago and we had to go without showering or go the gym. Our gym is closed on Wednesdays. It doesn’t open until ten in the morning. Soooo I guess I don’t get to shower between tonight and Thursday evening. In the best circumstances I hate skipping a shower because I feel do gross biking eleven miles a day. Now add on that at some point I’ll probs be peed, shat, puked, cried, etc. on by then? So. Effing. Annoyed.

This week sucks. I want a new job. And a new apartment. And a new country to live in.