SHABUKUST in 2006
Hello, this is Hanako Okamoto. In this anniversary paper, SHABUKUST's old editors are looking back and telling everyone about their high school days. So I, the editor at the present time, would like to talk about SHABUKUST at present.
Now there are seven members in SHABUKUST: one 3rd grade student (the last editor), six 2nd grade students, and one 1st grade student. Five of the members belong to other sports club or to the ESS.
On Tuesday after school and on Thursday during the lunch break, we gather in the English staff room. On Tuesday afternoon, we can meet Bob, and talk about many kinds of things. But this year, Mr. Yamamoto (Roy) became a 1st grade homeroom teacher, and first grade homeroom teachers have meetings every Tuesday, so we cannot talk with him on Tuesday. On Thursday we can meet him and take lunch with him. Whenever we gather, we play SCRABBLE more than talk.
The first or second week's Tuesday or Thursday we decide the deadline of that month's SHABUKUST. Usually the deadline will be the Tuesday that is nearest to the 15th of each month. Then the entire membership will think about ideas that we should write about. There are only seven members, but our 3rd grade student is too busy to write articles, so he doesn't have to write any, and one of the 2nd grade students may have written many articles. He might save them but we have almost never met him in the English staff room, so every month we forget to ask him to give us the articles. Therefore, the five of us have to write articles every month.
We all think writing articles is much easier than thinking up ideas for them. On the last weekend before the deadline, or on Monday night, we will be busy working out the idea, writing the article, and then sending it to Bob by e-mail. So we should ask him on the last Tuesday whether he can check our articles or not, but sometimes we forget to do so and send our articles very late on Monday night. Therefore, Bob sometimes does not know that we sent articles until he checks the e-mail on Tuesday morning. At the same time, we, the SHUBUKUST members, are checking our e-mail while preparing to go to school. Then we might find out that Bob hasn't checked our articles, so we print them out. After the 2nd or 3rd period classes have finished, we run to the English staff room, and hand in the article to Bob and beg him to check the article. If we can do it all right, we make the deadline safely. It is because the rule is that until our deadline, we have the article that is already checked by Bob in our hand. However, it will not be on an FD, so it is OK if we make the FD and hand it in as soon as possible.
But some of the members are very busy with their other clubs or something else. So sometimes some of the members haven't finished writing articles by the deadline. Normally if a 2nd grade member forgets the deadline, she has to do that month's SHABUKUST editing. I think maybe it is a little different from the way in which SHABUKUST members edited the paper in other years. It is very good for us because if one of the members cannot edit, the other members can do it instead, and the next time they can swap their turn with another.
Waiting for the late articles, we start to edit it. It is finished sometimes that Friday or on Sunday of the next week. So when we share an article, I do not want to know why but maybe I know why, the article is shared on the last day of the month. But it is always with small amount of fatigue and a big sense of accomplishment.
116-3 Hanako OKAMOTO
Now there are seven members in SHABUKUST: one 3rd grade student (the last editor), six 2nd grade students, and one 1st grade student. Five of the members belong to other sports club or to the ESS.
On Tuesday after school and on Thursday during the lunch break, we gather in the English staff room. On Tuesday afternoon, we can meet Bob, and talk about many kinds of things. But this year, Mr. Yamamoto (Roy) became a 1st grade homeroom teacher, and first grade homeroom teachers have meetings every Tuesday, so we cannot talk with him on Tuesday. On Thursday we can meet him and take lunch with him. Whenever we gather, we play SCRABBLE more than talk.
The first or second week's Tuesday or Thursday we decide the deadline of that month's SHABUKUST. Usually the deadline will be the Tuesday that is nearest to the 15th of each month. Then the entire membership will think about ideas that we should write about. There are only seven members, but our 3rd grade student is too busy to write articles, so he doesn't have to write any, and one of the 2nd grade students may have written many articles. He might save them but we have almost never met him in the English staff room, so every month we forget to ask him to give us the articles. Therefore, the five of us have to write articles every month.
We all think writing articles is much easier than thinking up ideas for them. On the last weekend before the deadline, or on Monday night, we will be busy working out the idea, writing the article, and then sending it to Bob by e-mail. So we should ask him on the last Tuesday whether he can check our articles or not, but sometimes we forget to do so and send our articles very late on Monday night. Therefore, Bob sometimes does not know that we sent articles until he checks the e-mail on Tuesday morning. At the same time, we, the SHUBUKUST members, are checking our e-mail while preparing to go to school. Then we might find out that Bob hasn't checked our articles, so we print them out. After the 2nd or 3rd period classes have finished, we run to the English staff room, and hand in the article to Bob and beg him to check the article. If we can do it all right, we make the deadline safely. It is because the rule is that until our deadline, we have the article that is already checked by Bob in our hand. However, it will not be on an FD, so it is OK if we make the FD and hand it in as soon as possible.
But some of the members are very busy with their other clubs or something else. So sometimes some of the members haven't finished writing articles by the deadline. Normally if a 2nd grade member forgets the deadline, she has to do that month's SHABUKUST editing. I think maybe it is a little different from the way in which SHABUKUST members edited the paper in other years. It is very good for us because if one of the members cannot edit, the other members can do it instead, and the next time they can swap their turn with another.
Waiting for the late articles, we start to edit it. It is finished sometimes that Friday or on Sunday of the next week. So when we share an article, I do not want to know why but maybe I know why, the article is shared on the last day of the month. But it is always with small amount of fatigue and a big sense of accomplishment.
116-3 Hanako OKAMOTO
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