It was a second time school again today and although we only had 3 hours I figured we’d try the “getting the teachers to teach” workshop. OK, so that was a mistake! First up half of the teachers were new so didn’t have all the Genki English basics, and the other half of the teachers still don’t have to actually teach anything this year, so weren’t in the “I need help now!” mode which is usually necessary to get things to work right. So although they tried hard with doing the colours, sports and weather themes, they weren’t taking it too seriously. When they had problems they asked me what was going wrong and I’d say “Have you read the lesson plan?” to which they’d say “Oh, we hadn’t thought of that!”. I think I’m going to have to limit second time visits to schools that actually have to teach, and not just ones that want a day away from the usual bored-to-death Japanese style workshops they have to endure in the Summer!