scary stories by third year junior high boys

Once upon a time, there was a scary vampire. A scary vampire always wants blood. It was very big. One night, the vampire took a walk in the park. The vampire saw a little boy in the park. The vampire goes to the little boy very fast. The vampire kill the boy and drink the boy's blood.


Once upon a time, there was a smelly mummy. It was very big. He was smelly so he had no friends. He wants to friend very much. But he doesn't now how to make friends. He wants to die. So he was dying.


Once upon a time, there was a hungry spider. The spider was hungry, so he looked for some food. Then is was seeing Betty (my boss) It wants to eat Betty. It is most disgusting. It was very strong. And he ate Betty.


Once upon a time, there was an old man. He is one thousand years old. He is crazy. He is Yusaki's wife. He is hungry. So he goes to the supermarket to buy some food. He bought a supermarket.


Once upon a time, there was a pink ghost. It's name is Yusaki. A pink ghost isn't touch. It was flying. But suddenly, it became very windy and the ghost couldn't fly anymore. But the ghost can walking? But the ghost can't running.

scary halloween stories, by first year junior high girls

Once upon a time, there was an old man. He likes candy. Halloween old man house not child coming. He is sad. He goes out of the house. He is looking for a friend. He goes to the park. He likes friend. but not have friend. He wants a friend.



Once upon a time, there was a hungry black spider. He look at a big bug. He sneaks up on the bug. He wants to eat the bug. He favorite dinner is butterfly. He is very hungry. He is eat bug!!!! He is very happy.



Once upon a time, there was a smelly mummy. Walk down the streets. He wants to find a friend. He has not friend. He is very smelly. But he is very nice. One day, a new mummy comes to his house. He and new mummy are good friend.



Once upon a time, there was a small black cat. Small black cat name is Neko. She likes cate food. Her master is a witch. She doesn't like witch. But the witch likes Neo. One day the witch was hungry. She had no food. She ate Neko. She says. I'm Sorry. But very delicious!



Once upon a time, there was a pink ghost. The ghost was sad. "I like candy! I want candy!" "trick or treat" A child came to the ghost house. "there you are!" The child is happy. The pink ghost is happy too.


Once upon a time, there was a scary vampire. Vampire likes blood. Vampire house coming to one woman. Vampire and woman talk. The woman is very scared. She wants to run away. "trick or treat" she says. "here you are" he says.


this was a really fun activity. I had 6 different papers all started with once upon a time there was a (and i chose character) and each student and i got one paper. we wrote a sentence to add to the story and then we passed the paper to the next person until everyone wrote one sentence to all the stories. then we read them aloud. so fun!


this week has been halloween. we started at my school friday. i dressed as a man. I made students a little nervous. the young ones didn't realize that it was me! now we have to more days of halloween! and only 2 more parent observations left! this is a good year. yes indeed.


on a side note, my MRI results came back decent. i am cleared to run and exercise again as log as i have no pain. if I have bad pain i need to go back to get some sort of injection. we will see. tomorrow is day one of jogging! lets hope i can!


pictures to come this week!

please do your research

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. so I'll keep this short. to my american friends who are going to vote soon, please don't blindly vote based on who you think looks good. or which party you may have voted for in the past. please take a few hours to read the news, decide which candidate (and vice pres candidate) would actually have a chance at fixing the mess that is going on in the US.

ugh

i have not run since july 21st-ish. i am so over the pain. i am so over the sitting around. im so over this freakin herniated disc. i am so ready to get the stupid mri and some sort or surgery. whatever it takes to go back to my normal life.

all i want to do is go for a run. be outside. hey, i'd even settle for a swim or a walk at this point.

Do you understand?

Last weekend, I went to Nara. It was such a great time. It was so nice to get away for a bit, even for only 1 day. Hiro and I woke up early and took the shinkansen to kyoto, then switched to JR to nara. Our plan was to see this one temple first (its about 10 minutes by train from nara) and then come back to nara and see the deer, the really big buddha and some other sights.

well we transfered to the train from nara to go to the first place and this old man approaches us, asking us where we were headed. we told him and he told us that he was also going there and could show us the way. we shrugged and followed. why not, it will save us time. well that was our first mistake. he seemed harmless enough on the train. but once we got the station, he started seeing out others to join us on his volunteer tour. he was pretty demanding. but we continued along. once we finally got to the temple, i was done with him. hahha. he kept reading the descriptions in english, but i didnt understand him. but after every sentence he asked "do you understand?" i always responded "yes" he told us that we should only take pictures when he said it was ok, we didnt have time (it was bad enough we only wanted to stay 1.5 hours, and a good tour would last at least 3hours) but i just kept taking pictures. i mean hey, if he was going to stop at every wooden beam and inform us is was made of cyprus wood, then certainly i can take a few pictures.

i zoned out for most of the time, being a horrible person and letting hiro get stuck with him. finally we ended the tour. whew. safe. we looked around a little more, then ate lunch, then walked back to the station. and who do you think just happened to run into us on the way back? thats right. our obnoxious tour guide. we had to ride on the train with him. and when we got to nara, we ran away from him.


the rest of the day was so great. we wandered around. fed the deer some deer crackers. we rented a little boat and paddled around on the pond. we saw some sights. we saw lots of greenness. we saw the big buddha. we were tired. finally we went to a really nice restaurant for dinner. so much food. but good! then we headed back to nagoya. all in all it was a great great day.

enjoy the pictures.

3 day weekend

Its the weekend! whooohooo! and a 3 day weekend at that! i have lots of things to do! tomorrow i will clean, run some errands, talk to chuckers. sunday i am going to nara! i'm really looking forward to it! apparently there is a really really really large buddha. and a lot of deer.

its really funny when my students try to see if i speak or understand japanese. i try to play dumb, but sometimes they don't believe me. today i asked " do you know warabi mochi?" and they all screamed "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH -insert japanese here-Ahhhhhhhh jen speak japanese????" i tried to explain that there is no word in english for warabi mochi. but you can try to explain so much with a bunch of 3rd graders.

just in case you dont know,Warabimochi (Japanese: 蕨餅) is not true mochi but a jelly-like confection made from bracken starch and covered or dipped in kinako (sweet toasted soybean flour). It is popular in the summertime, and often sold from trucks, not unlike ice cream trucks in Western countries.



i really like it.

yearbook photos

don't be jealous that I'm so incredibly good looking.

in case of an earthquake...

these pictures show two of my 3rd year junior high boys demonstrating/modeling the head protection for an earthquake. i think they look stylish. haha.

the saltine challenge

I like to do fun things with my junior high students. such as show them videos on youtube of fear factor, people eating cockroaches, have wii days, and the latest.... saltine challenge. i brought in the crackers and they had 1 minute to eat 6 crackers with no drinking. mission failed. noone could do it, but i sure enjoyed watching them try. next week i have 2 more classes to attempt this feat.

enjoy the pictures

earthquake

there was an earthquake this morning. it was small but i kept my cool.

yay for meeting friends for lunch.

yay for my favorite student yayoi. i like wednesdays because her class.

yay for talking to erik on skype. about little naked angel babies.

yay for a haircut tomorrow.

yay for new nail polish.

yay for sun.

yay for eating spoonfuls of peanut butter.

yay for sleeping on the couch.

yay for rachael sharing her peanut butter.