Things to Do or Try in Your Free Time at School
by Christopher Garbrecht, (27 July, 2004) in articles > features
- Plan your English classes
- Study Japanese
- Learn an easier language
- Conduct “research” on the Internet
- Read a book
- Write a book
- Write a play
- Act out the play in your teacher’s room
- Write an article for a magazine or newspaper back home
- Write an article for this website
- Learn HTML and make your own website
- Download music onto your laptop
- Take a distance learning Masters course
- Become a better teacher by taking a TEFL or TESOL distance learning certificate program
- Oxygenate that brain by taking a vigorous walk around the school grounds
- Head off to the dojo and do some yoga, dance, or meditation
- Attain nirvana at your desk
- Check out the gym and shoot some hoops
- Go to the music room and practice or learn the piano
- Finished with the piano? Try the guitar
- Serenade your students and teachers during the lunchtime
- Start a lunchtime movie and make some movie posters
- Start an English school newspaper
- Put that library to work and start a section for learning or studying English
- Make an English bulletin board that changes weekly
- Write pop songs at your desk to sell for vast amounts of money
- Write haiku poems about your existence or non-existence at school
- Organize an English camp at your school
- Order your food online at The Flying Pig
- Granola junkies can order your food at Alishan Organic Center
- Get another book or CD at Amazon Japan
- See how many students you can talk to in one day by wandering the halls between classes
- Come up with a school song in English
- Try to get your teachers to stop using disposable (wariboshi) chopsticks
- Start a recycling pile of old worksheets in the printing room
- Plan your next trip inside or outside of Japan — check out the Japan National Tourist Organization
