Precious moments part one

Lunch time today.

Since we are on the short road to the Interactive Conference, I am usually working with my Interactive English Team preparing them for the conference...

But tomorrow is the big sports competition. And thus, all clubs are concentrating on their club activities.

So, I'm free.

I grab my big fuzzy die (It's about twice the size of the ones folks put up in their rearview mirror, with different colors on each face) and I head out to play one of my favorite games; "What's the number?" In English, of course. :)

I find Genki-Chan crying right off the bat. Her friend tells me that it's because she is suffering from a broken heart...

So, I give Genki-chan a "Chin up" and leave them alone...

I go by the "Special Classroom" and discover that it looks like Mouse-chan and the older "Special" children are all just sitting there, staring at the wall... (Direct-kun was absent today) They look totally miserable.

I open the door (They had the doors closed, too... it's 30 degrees outside! It has to be, like, 35 or 40 inside... Okay, so maybe it just feels that way to my Colorado blood...). So I go into the room (Leaving the door open behind me... the windows in the hallway are open, so there's airflow now...).

Mouse-chan jumps up as soon as I walk in and she wants to see the dice. The nice thing is that the older kids have already played the dice game with Mr. Second year and I (Ms. First Year is in charge of Mouse chan's class, so we don't play dice there...). It's recess, and I'm feeling generally overheated and thus generous, so I don't actually play the number part, we just throw the die around the classroom and catch it. They are laughing and smiling and having a lot of fun...

I leave when the bell rings, and they are happy as kids can be. Smiles all around.

They pay me for this job :D

---Me.