It's Getting Psycho in Here

It's starting to look and feel a lot like　秋　or "fall." Unfortunately, that means about 88.9% of the kids are sick and still in school and naturally the teachers are involuntarily jumping on that typhoid-ridden bandwagon. 

Seriously, teachers and students come to work/ school pretty much regardless of their health: that's why cotton face masks were invented, ne? Well of course, that means I'm starting to feel a little poorly. I'm hoping it's just a passing thing...mostly because I need to get to Geto Resort this weekend and buy by season pass for snowboarding!

Anyway, the arrival of October also means I'm ecstatic about throwing some Halloween-themed activities into my lessons all month! This week, I had a session with my special education class of three first year boys. The teachers just asked me if I'd add the class and "Could you please do something...fun?" 

Immediately, I put pen to paper and came up with a Casper the Friendly...strike that...Casper the Nice Ghost and Wendy story. I wrote a first draft while I was at the school then took it home to type it. It wasn't until then that I realized that what I wrote was vaguely disturbing. I changed it for the kids, but it kind of makes me giggle.

So, in the spirit of Halloween, enjoy!

Casper is a ghost. He is very nice. Casper doesn't like to say "Boo!" He likes cats and sweet apples. Casper also likes to play baseball with his friend, Wendy. Wendy is cute.

One day, Wendy was sad. "I'm sad. I don't have a costume."

Casper thought and thought. He got an idea! Casper got a white blanket and put it on Wendy. It was a ghost costume!

"Look, Casper!" Wendy said. "Now, I'm a ghost too."

Casper laughed and laughed. He was very happy.

It begins.....

Winter is coming...grrrrowl!