The duties of a teacher....?

So tomorrow is the graduation for our grade 6 students. The whole school has been jumping through hoops to try and get ready for tomorrow's ceremony and I must admit the school does put on a really good show for the kids as well as the parents.

But, everyone minus the grade 5 kids and the full time teachers was sent home at around lunchtime leaving the rest of us to clean the whole place from top to bottom, inside and out. I had a team of 4 grade 5 kids helping me weed the sports field. It was insane. The little Hitler lady that is in charge of cleaning throughout the school this year would keep coming out to us and telling us (yes, all 5 of us) that we needed to do more and do more faster.

Silly bugger. The kids were working really well and even I was putting my back into it and that's all we got from it. The kids were asking me what her problem was and we had a laugh together. All in all a good bonding exercise for getting to spend some time with some kids I've known and taught since day one and never spoken to in Japanese before.

I always find it interesting the things you can talk about when there is no language barrier and the kids agreed too.