Sayonara Yukarigaoka

Last month I had to say goodbye to my little school in Yukarigaoka. After moving to Tokyo it took me close to an hour and a half to get to work in Yukari, after doing the commute for 3 months, I finally caved and am now working at a school a much more reasonable 40 minutes from my home. I was really sad to leave Yukari and I will miss (most of) my students loads. Here is a pic of my favourite Kinder class, from left; Saya, Yuta, Shiori, Takumi, Naoki, Fumihiro, Suguru and some random child who would always wander in to help do the Hokey Pokey. Yes, I remembered all their names. This class made my week because I had them every Monday morning and they are all so adorable (even when they slobbered all over me).



This is Keisuke, he’s one of the higher level students (the ones that know bigger words than you). He used to bring his Law homework in, in an attempt to get me to help him translate legal documents (this usually ended in me banging my head against the desk).



And these are the people that I worked with everyday (minus Nicky). Ian (my boss) and the most diplomatic man I have ever met, Kumiko (the J-staff boss) she is the sweetest thing ever and Dhugal (the reason half the Japanese housewives wanted to learn Engrish) an extra chilled Australian.



I miss you guys loads, Sayonara Yukarigaoka.