Child Abuse

The number of child abuse is increasing in Japan year by year.
According to the web article, the children who were born after unplanned pregnancies are prone to be involved in serious cases.
One of the reasons for child abuse comes from the shortage of consultants.
The mothers who caused incidents didn’t have relationships with others to converse their situation and they got frustrated by themselves.
In my opinion, we need to be more serious for making children.
It costs money, takes time, and is a hard work to raise children.
If we don’t have any room for money, time, and schedule, we should avoid thinking about making children.
It is important to the happiness of children not to increase the number of children.
I personally need to earn more money in less time to make a partner first and foremost.

https://japantoday.com/category/crime/japan-handled-record-130-000-child-abuse-cases-in-fy-2017

The Rest of Vacation

The summer vacation is almost over in Japan.
September 3rd is the beginning of the second term of our school.
The opening day would be different in each school.
I have four subsequent days off starting today, so yesterday was my last day on-duty for this vacation.
I am going to meet one of my seniors from the tennis team at my previous university this afternoon and eat lunch together.
My two-day trip will be this weekend.
Toyama Prefecture is the destination and my best friend who was also my teammate at the university lives there.
This is the best time to meet him and his family since last year.
I hope the weather will be fine because playing tennis is included in my itinerary.

Job Training

The students in our school are going to experience on-the-job trainings for two days in November.
There are several OJT options to attend such as libraries, a theme park, and restaurants.
Yesterday, I went to a nursery home which is included among the options and asked them to accept our students.
Although the nursery home and our school made an agreement to have the training via phone, it was nice to meet for the first time the staff in charge.
They were kind to welcome me and explained what will be the training for the students.
I hope the students can learn a lot from the experience.

New Job

My current job is on an annual contract basis and since it is ending this coming March, I am starting to look for a new one.
There is a vacancy in a private elementary school in Tokyo and I am planning to send my resume as soon as possible.
The job looks so tempting to me because I would be able to teach English and develop my own modules. 
Besides I won't be doing other tasks just like before.
Once my resume is accepted and reviewed I will go to Tokyo in the middle of September for an interview.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed but if not I have my other options. 
I have been looking for other job openings in other places.
Since I started job hunting I noticed that it is of utmost importance that you have to gather many bits of information about the jobs and companies you are interested in to make a good choice.

Nausicaä

I read a manga titled “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind”, which has seven volumes.
Although it is just a manga, it took much time to read through.
The reason for this is that each sentence is lengthy compared to the standard manga.  
Some of the vocabularies were difficult to understand.
I was not able to understand all of them, but the main idea of the manga was retained in my mind after reading.
The message of the manga was that people who had to deal with miserable situations by themselves can still behave cheerfully and accordingly.
Nausicaä lost her siblings and started to observe her living environment.
As a result, she became a thoughtful person who cares about the lives of people and animals.
I want to be a warm-hearted person like her, who is equipped with different kinds of experiences and knowledge.

Concert

I went to see a concert performed by junior high school students.
It was held in Kochi Prefecture, which is about 100 km away from here.
More than 20 junior high schools, which won in each prefecture, joined this Shikoku Regional concert and the winners can proceed to the national competition.
I was overwhelmed by their performance because they played music splendidly.
The students looked different compared to when I usually see them at school.
The teachers who are in charge of the orchestra team will announce the results on Monday.
I found out that the students have hidden special skills that we don't notice when they are in the classroom.

Robots Teach English

AI robots will help elementary school students in Japan learn English starting next year.
The robots can check the pronunciation of the students equally without being swayed one’s intuition.
The education ministry will spend 250 million yen to deploy the robot instructors.
The deficit of the number of teachers who have sufficient knowledge about linguistics is a serious problem in Japan.
It is common that even English teachers cannot speak English fluently.
No students get interested in learning English if they need to attend classes of such teachers.
I am for using the latest technology at school in the aim of supporting the students’ learning.
However, English teachers need to improve their skills more to be a role model for students as an English speaker.

https://japantoday.com/category/tech/must-do-better-japan-eyes-ai-robots-in-class-to-boost-english