<human>: Hi reddit! First things first, this is a throwaway, since working in a school means I should try my very hardest to avoid any privacy breaches. 

Basically the situation is that, as part of my employment contract, I am expected to supervise the school's English club. I am fine with this, and I have it easier than most of my colleagues. The problems that I'm having are as follows:

1. I haven't been really told anything about what the English club is supposed to do. I know that in many schools, the English clubs are super serious, and Japanese school clubs in particular can be hyper-serious. If you're in a sports club for example, you'll probably be in school for two extra hours every day, plus weekends and holidays. But I haven't really been told what to do with the English club, what it's for, how much the kids want to do, etc, etc...

2. The teacher who is supposed to be in charge of the club never comes. The first reason this is a problem is that I have no Japanese and they have very little English. Thankfully one of the girls is fantastic and acts as a pseudo-translator, but yeah. The main reason however is that the club atmosphere is really badly organised. In some of my friend's clubs, the teachers drive the kids to practice English, enter contests and try really hard. Whereas my club seems to mostly just dick around. What I don't know is whether that's good or bad. As it is I never know how many students (I had 10+ last week but only 3-4 this week) will turn up, and what those students want to do. I would like the club to be more serious and motivated - and I think that would eventually make it more fun, as well as being more like most clubs in Japan - but I don't know if that's the opposite of what the kids want. I don't want to do the exact opposite of what 75% of them joined up for.

Can you give me a shortened version of the text?
<bot>: The club has no real direction because of the Japanese supervisor's absence, and I don't know what direction to take it in.