Hey, bro!!
Recently, I feel like being in Siberia for last couple days. I'm freezing every night!!
By the way, now, in NZ is in school holiday for couple weeks called maybe winter vacation in Japan, but it's not that as long as the vacation in Japan. In Japan, All students except over 18 such as Uni, junior college and like technical college have some long-term holidays in a year, especially Summer-term holidays is for about 30-45days, but there are no holidays like that long one which is for about 2 or 3 weeks at longest. It depends on the regulation of each schools set up.
This time, I've organized a special program for this term in my soccer school. To be honest, I didn't think anything about it until just before the holiday, but I just changed my mind when a guardian asked me if I'm going to have some extra lessons in the holidays. Then, I tried getting down to it in haste as they requested. The number of kids joining the program has still grown by leaps and bounds. Actually I might be unable to handle it if the number goes through the roof more than now I've got. Still even now, I've got a lot of helps from people around me cuz all of these kids are of course not same age as others. some are still only 5 and others are also over 10 years old. It means that we need to divide some groups by age, which means that I need to organize coaches as many as the number of the group divided.
I apprecate a lot those people involved this program as a helper.
But I've realized that I've found some new possitive things out from the program that teaches football to kids. I'm still not sure if I'm cut out for a football coach but I think what I doing for kids now could connect with myself as a player positively cuz it's not that easy to hand all my skill down to someone else, so I think I have to hand it down as easy and simple as possible otherwise kids would stop doing it straight away as they are so sensitive and naive about anything. we need to handle them like a bomb.
But the mindset for kids can result in some positive things for me. It sometimes reminds me something important that I had forgot.
Anyway, The program will be finished on next day, which is on this Friday. We need to pull together to prompt kids to enjoy and play at best until the last moment of the day.
ども！
最近はまた一段と寒くなってきました。あぁやだやだ・・。
ともあれ、今ＮＺでは学校が日本で言う「冬休み」の真っ只中。といっても２、３週間しかないんやけどね。日本の夏休みのような１か月以上の大型の休みというのはこちらの教育機関にはなく、その代わり、こういう数週間の休みが２、３か月ごとにやってきます。今はその休みの最中なんですが、この休み期間を利用して、うちのサッカースクールで「スクールホリデープログラム」と題し、平日にも子ども達にサッカーを教えています。
当初は全く考えてなかったんやけど、あるお母さんからの要望で希望者を募ったところ、毎回平日の朝にも関わらず２０人ほどの子ども達が集まってくれています。
年齢も様々なので、年齢別に大きくグループ分けしながらやっていますが、自分だけでは当然すべてのグループを一度に見れないので、これまた色々な方々が助けにきてくれてなんとか計画どおり行えている状態です。本当に色々な方に感謝！！
でも、子どもに教えるってのは本当に自分にとっても色んなことが発見できるし、逆に子どもから教わることだった少なくない。例えば彼らが話す英会話にしても、もちろん彼らはネイティブなのでまだまだ学べることも多い。サッカーの技術面でも、簡単なことをいかにさらにわかりやすく伝えるか、難しい技術をいかにおもしろく、「こんなんできない！」と思わせないようにアプローチしていくか。ほんとに砕いて砕いて教えてあげないとすぐに「できない！」と言われて子ども達はチャレンジをやめてしまう。
その言葉を「砕く」作業が、自分に忘れていたことを思い出させてくれたり、新しいアイデアの糸口になったり、正直、長い時は朝から暗くなるまで色んな子どもにサッカーを教えているので疲労は溜まるけど、ストレスは全く感じない。むしろ逆に色んなパワーをもらえてるのかも・・・。
これで本業の自分の選手としての活動がもっと上向いてくれれば言うことナシ！！
この特別プログラムも残すところあと１回。最後までみんなにはできるだけ多くの事を自分達コーチ陣から盗んで、そしてテーマである「楽しく」を感じて大成功といえる形で締めたいと思います。
Recently, I feel like being in Siberia for last couple days. I'm freezing every night!!
By the way, now, in NZ is in school holiday for couple weeks called maybe winter vacation in Japan, but it's not that as long as the vacation in Japan. In Japan, All students except over 18 such as Uni, junior college and like technical college have some long-term holidays in a year, especially Summer-term holidays is for about 30-45days, but there are no holidays like that long one which is for about 2 or 3 weeks at longest. It depends on the regulation of each schools set up.
This time, I've organized a special program for this term in my soccer school. To be honest, I didn't think anything about it until just before the holiday, but I just changed my mind when a guardian asked me if I'm going to have some extra lessons in the holidays. Then, I tried getting down to it in haste as they requested. The number of kids joining the program has still grown by leaps and bounds. Actually I might be unable to handle it if the number goes through the roof more than now I've got. Still even now, I've got a lot of helps from people around me cuz all of these kids are of course not same age as others. some are still only 5 and others are also over 10 years old. It means that we need to divide some groups by age, which means that I need to organize coaches as many as the number of the group divided.
I apprecate a lot those people involved this program as a helper.
But I've realized that I've found some new possitive things out from the program that teaches football to kids. I'm still not sure if I'm cut out for a football coach but I think what I doing for kids now could connect with myself as a player positively cuz it's not that easy to hand all my skill down to someone else, so I think I have to hand it down as easy and simple as possible otherwise kids would stop doing it straight away as they are so sensitive and naive about anything. we need to handle them like a bomb.
But the mindset for kids can result in some positive things for me. It sometimes reminds me something important that I had forgot.
Anyway, The program will be finished on next day, which is on this Friday. We need to pull together to prompt kids to enjoy and play at best until the last moment of the day.
ども！
最近はまた一段と寒くなってきました。あぁやだやだ・・。
ともあれ、今ＮＺでは学校が日本で言う「冬休み」の真っ只中。といっても２、３週間しかないんやけどね。日本の夏休みのような１か月以上の大型の休みというのはこちらの教育機関にはなく、その代わり、こういう数週間の休みが２、３か月ごとにやってきます。今はその休みの最中なんですが、この休み期間を利用して、うちのサッカースクールで「スクールホリデープログラム」と題し、平日にも子ども達にサッカーを教えています。
当初は全く考えてなかったんやけど、あるお母さんからの要望で希望者を募ったところ、毎回平日の朝にも関わらず２０人ほどの子ども達が集まってくれています。
年齢も様々なので、年齢別に大きくグループ分けしながらやっていますが、自分だけでは当然すべてのグループを一度に見れないので、これまた色々な方々が助けにきてくれてなんとか計画どおり行えている状態です。本当に色々な方に感謝！！
でも、子どもに教えるってのは本当に自分にとっても色んなことが発見できるし、逆に子どもから教わることだった少なくない。例えば彼らが話す英会話にしても、もちろん彼らはネイティブなのでまだまだ学べることも多い。サッカーの技術面でも、簡単なことをいかにさらにわかりやすく伝えるか、難しい技術をいかにおもしろく、「こんなんできない！」と思わせないようにアプローチしていくか。ほんとに砕いて砕いて教えてあげないとすぐに「できない！」と言われて子ども達はチャレンジをやめてしまう。
その言葉を「砕く」作業が、自分に忘れていたことを思い出させてくれたり、新しいアイデアの糸口になったり、正直、長い時は朝から暗くなるまで色んな子どもにサッカーを教えているので疲労は溜まるけど、ストレスは全く感じない。むしろ逆に色んなパワーをもらえてるのかも・・・。
これで本業の自分の選手としての活動がもっと上向いてくれれば言うことナシ！！
この特別プログラムも残すところあと１回。最後までみんなにはできるだけ多くの事を自分達コーチ陣から盗んで、そしてテーマである「楽しく」を感じて大成功といえる形で締めたいと思います。