Cooking with the 7th graders

What is there something in my beard? No Santa try your moustache.... The kids came in screaming wonderho. Hmmm could that mean wonderful! They were so proud. As I walked out the door to take my recycling to its place, the taxi was already waiting. So what did I do? I brought it with me along with all of my baking supplies, shoes, school bag, purse, and bag of bowls and pans. I was a mess. Then at school I figured out that I forgot the list of who won the semester contest with the most points. Idiot Britt.

I first see my desk as Milton does in Officespace. More and more stuff on it, and I thought I was going to get moved into the copy room. I have a computer sitting there, books and librarian stuff. I just slide it out of the way. Come to find out about 20 minutes later that I can use the computer. Maybe they are being really nice so I don't have to use the smoking room for my computing or they want to monitor what I am looking up.

I have cooking with the 7th graders at 2nd period. I go to the cooking room and put everything in bowls before they arrive and find the Japanese words on them. I was trying to encourage as much English as I could. They were not to speak Japanese today. Instead I got lots of grunts and ehhhHHHhhhhh. We tried to make pecan sandies. The class of only 9 was great and meant more cookies for me. I put the dough in the fridge to cool.

Off to 9th grade class where they are working on travel guides. I find one of my favorite students, Yousuke, had written "Because I am delicious, the Yuubari melon is famous." I cracked up out loud.

Back to the cooking class. Takata sensei and I went to go and preheat the ovens. We tried with the main one- found out it didn't work. So she starts pulling these boxes down from ontop of a cupboard. Okay I thought, she knows what she is doing. They were portable oldstyle ovens that go ontop of a gas burner. I went with it because she is the teacher and knows what her school has. The kids walk in and look at the other ovens sitting on top of a counter. We had totally missed those. (The ovens are the size of a big microwave). Okay off to baking. Hurry hurry hurry. We got them done and they smelled delicious. The bell rings and the kids hurry to PE. So all of the cookies are sitting on the tables "cooling". Little did they know- I ate about 4 from each group to taste test. They were good. They came back later to put the finishing touches on them. I asked for more cookies to give to the teachers. Yes I am a suck up. Just getting in good with the right people.

Christmas lights around town! Yay for the spirit.