Today (though not being still today) was a fun day. I slept in because I hadn’t slept too well, ate fried eggs with fried tomatoes and green onion :) then went on a walk. The sakura are starting to bloom!
(My phone refused to focus on the blossoms. Sorry.)
Then Randy caught me on my way back, and we went to the city office to get some paperwork for him, then to the car place to get the winter tires changed back to normal tires on the car. After that, I ran through some Irish dance, and at 1 o’clock was our teacher meeting. I met Nathan, who is Casey’s friend and another new teacher. Well, new here. He’s been teaching English in Japan for a couple years already.
So I got my schedule! And find out that I won’t teach April 1st because it’s a Monday and I don’t have Monday classes (so April Fools), but I teach on the 2nd. However, elementary schools actually don’t start until like next week, or the week after, and some not until May. Woa. Ok. So that gives me some time to get used to teaching the afternoon and kids’ classes.
Later we went to the last of Randy’s classes. It’s not one I’ll be taking over, but Randy had me teach it anyway, for practice, and that’s always good. After the class we chatted for a bit with the older brother of one of the students, who’s English is actually really good.
Then we went to meet Miki and friend (bassist) Sasaki for dinner and karaoke. For dinner we went to Coco’s, a particular favorite of Randy. It was pretty tasty, and not actually that expensive for the amount of food (I think) — but Sasaki treated. Very nice of him. He said this evening was my welcome party and Randy’s going-away farewell. I learned my Japanese needs a whole lot more practice. Like a lot. A lot a lot. But hey, that’s why I’m here.
Then we went to karaoke!! I love karaoke. Because I like to sing :p and I had especially wanted to hear Miki sing. Yappari (as I thought) sugoi (she’s really good). We were there for like 3 hours, until the wee hours of the — well, until 1am.
So you may wonder why I’m writing the blog at this point. The answer is because I had coffee at dinner and because I’m at that stage where I haven’t yet realized how tired I am. It’s ok. It will come. Soon.
I didn’t get any pictures! But Miki did:
So uh, it’s very late. I’m going to bed. G’night.
It's great that you stayed up and had a fun time with your friends. And how nice of Sasaki to treat for dinner. I take it you got to have some rich Japanese conversation over dinner? Were you able to follow most of it? It's nice to have a picture of you with some of the people you've been talking about. You look great! And it's nice to see Randy after you've said so much about him.
ReplyDeleteSo Monday you will officially be a teacher! April fools! ; ) Nice that you'll get some time to practice teaching before the crush starts. Have a good weekend.
Coco's like coco's curry? I remember a place called that and it's a chain I think so it seems likely, I liked that place. It was Chen&Maria's favorite place to eat in Japan.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought too when I saw it, but no. It's Coco's California Restaurant. I forgot to say -- I ATE HAMBURGER STEAK!! It was actually really good. (Miki said that's Hawaiian food, not original Japanese. That's ok.)
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