Back to normal - more or less - Part 2

 As I said in the last blog, I am now teaching again. I arrived in the teachers' lounge. This is where we can wait for class to begin. It is also where we put our stamp in a log book to show that we were there.

 

 My classes are the first two after lunch, so the room was filled with people having there lunch. Part time teachers are generally allowed to teach three classes a week so many teachers have to have lunch at their part time job, even those who have to return to their home university after teaching.

This next picture is the classroom that I will be using for two different classes on Tuesday afternoons at Tohoku Gakuin University. It is directly across the hall from the teachers' lounge. The picture was taken from the back of the room. You may notice something unusual. The only clock in the room is on the wall over the teacher's podium. This means that they only person in the room who needs to know the in order to correctly end the class, the teacher, is the only one who can not see it. There is one good point about it, though. It provides excellent feedback about your class. If the students are constantly glancing up at it, you know that you lecture is boring.

 Turning around, I took a picture out the window, where there is a large pile of trash that has been removed from the damaged portions of the campus.

As I left the campus and walked down the hill, I found that the road to the school's high school campus was almost completely blocked by a landslide. The stones had been pushed into a line to provide a walkway up the road, but it is completely block in terms of vehicles.

 This view from the bottom of the hill shows how much of the road remains passable.

 At the bottom of the hill, where the road from the school crosses Route 4, the Sendai Bypass road, there is a large used book store. It had obviously suffered a lot of damage and there was a large pile of what looked like broken book shelves sitting beside the building.

Almost home I passed the store that sells Buddhist paraphernalia, which I have shown at least a couple of times, and found that it was till under reconstruction, even though repairs had started more than a month ago. They must be having trouble getting the needed materials through the partially disrupted supply chain.