I ran a music based lesson for my ichi-nensei students last week, as it was the last class of the term. They'd done really well in their tests so I figured they deserved it, hehe. Also, as I didn't get to teach all of the classes, I didn't want to make a 'real' lesson and have some classes getting ahead of others. The lesson itself was pretty easy to prepare as I had already done a lesson like this with my san-nensei last year. So I whipped out my 'fill in the blanks' and 'world music' worksheets, added another activity and it was done!

The kids seemed to really enjoy it and as they were all ridiculously tired (the weather is exhausting at the moment, they had just finished end of term tests and are preparing like crazy for the upcoming cultural festival) it probably worked out for the better that we didn't do a full (often boring) lesson. Anyway, running a musical lesson itself isn't really worthy of a journal entry, but one of my students recognising 'Australian Crawl - Things Don't Seem' was. I was immensely surprised (it's really old Australian rock music that doesn't seem too well known even in Australia) so I asked him how he knew about it. Amusingly, he said he'd done a homestay in Australia and while he was there he'd been to karaoke. Apparently the people he went with sung that song, hahaha. Crazy times.