So yesterday I get out to the aviation academy and go to my desk. On it is a small note saying that I will be teaching two classes. Both with teachers I've never taught with before. This comes as no great shock to me as I was warned that every week is different out there. At most of my schools (in fact ALL my other schools) I teach the same groups of students and work with the same teachers every week. But the academy is not like this. I was told that some weeks I might teach with this or that teacher and other weeks not and some weeks I might have only 2 classes and other weeks up to 4. Ok, so not a big deal.
So the teacher I was to be teaching my second class of the day with comes over and informs me it is her class that I will be teaching during 4th period. Ok. And then she said that Ms. Ito (the head of the English dept. and the other teacher I've worked with thus far) mentioned something about my self-intro and the bingo game I played way back when. She asks if I can do this today. "Well," I tell her, "I can but I didn't bring any of the stuff I use for it." At this she gets a slightly concerned look on her face but I put her concerns to rest by saying, "Yes yes, I can do it anyway. I'll make due." So she is happy and I am left to come up with a way to get this done. Then a few minutes later the other teacher comes over and we basically go through the same routine. So now, I am fully expecting to do my self-intro twice after coming to school prepared to do other things, but hell, no big deal.
Well, it gets better.
So I do the first class by writing what is on the poster I didn't bring on the board and attempting to draw a map (from memory) of the United States (I know the map quite well, but drawing it is something else altogether). I've done my self-intro enough that I've got it quite commited to memory. So all goes well and I had to improvise on the bingo game a bit but it all worked out. So one down, one to go.
Well, I get to the next class and, lo and behold, the teacher and I walk into the same room with the same students that I had just, not two hours before, done my self-intro with. "What the f...?" I think to myself, "These are the same students." I was pretty damn confused. So I say to the teacher, "Uumm....these are the students I taught earlier today." And she says to me, "Yes, I know." Now at this point I was just about ready to run out of the room and all the way to the train station. Here I was already to do my intro again thinking it would be different students but here are these familiar faces looking back at me. So instead of running I just thought quickly while she handed back some tests they had taken and came up with a plan.
So we ended up just playing a few English games I've played in my other classes, but I tell you, had this happened a few weeks ago I would have been quite screwed. Anyway, disaster was averted and super-sensei saved his own ass.

It is now Friday evening over here and I don't have any plans this weekend. Might go a few towns over to a wine-tasting thing. Not sure. Apparently you can drink all day on only a few hundred yen, though, so it might be worth a try. Wine-tasting? Try wine-drinking! They obviously haven't met some of us JETs.