My students are rad

Avery.

Please leave Indiana.

Previous students and their kids.

Good job Maria!

This baby has the biggest eyes. 

One day maybe I will be so lucky.

Naomi and me

Student gifts part 2

Last day of finals.  

I got a toy, some cards....and a tin full of vegan snickerdoodles?  

Yes.

And she even took pictures of all the labels of the ingredients...dang.

I also got a gift certificate for a massage.  

I'm serious.  

Gifts this year have killed it.

 

Student art

From the first Friday of the first week my students learn Japanese I encourage them to draw on every test and quiz.  I tell them it's something that old people forget to do and eventually lose the ability to do so they should embrace it while they are young and never stop!
 I do have some selfish motivation though.  I am not the biggest fan of grading so my students little doodles and drawings are like my motivation to make it to the back page when grading that 5 page end of the semester final....  Here are some first year student gems from a Kanji test last week.

Say Something Nice (JLPT 2012)

JLPT 2012.

6 + hours in a car by yourself is way too long.

Chicago Diner, the new location, with a friend.

That french toast..soo good.

Yeah, here we go again.

I love these two!

Bro-Sis combo coming up to take the challenge. 

The other students declined to wait for my test to end.

I can't blame them.

It's like taking the SAT in Japanese.

I'm not kidding.

They were probably pretty wiped out.

I haven't had the mental capacity to study for the past 3 months so I almost skipped the test.

I am glad I went though, it felt good to get my brain working in this capacity again.

I need to get back on track.