DayTwo and the continuing acclimation to life in Japan.

Today I was able to sleep in to 7:30, a pleasant change of pace. I got up, dressed, and somehow still didn't have time for a proper breakfast. Figures. Although it quickly became apparent that drinking that BOSS coffee was a bad idea, because it made me horribly tired for almost the entire rest of the day. On the walk to work, I realized that the person who cought up from behind me was Yuko, my next door neighbor. Turns out her car broke down yesterday at school and she's having it worked on, so we chatted on the way until we split, since she goes to the elementary school in the moring. Today I had 5 classes, which was a bit intense, although it wasn:t that bad, since I am still just observing. Although since I had two lvl 1 classes back to back with the same teacher, I offered to help her do the dialogue during the second class, just so I wouldn't fall asleep (again, that caffine crash).

4rd period was with Omori sensei again, and this time, instead of having a very rambunctious group, she had three girls, all of whom were mind-bogglingly shy. I couldn't believe it. I used a good portion of this class time to do some checking of papers for another professor, which not only was a good way to pass time, but let me get the hang of marking papers for the students. I can't help but feel bad for poor Omori-sensei, who seems to have the worst classes, but then again, she is the newbie here. (She was excited yesterday that I just turned 23, because it no longer leaves her as the youngest teacher at the school).

3rd period I had with Kasuga, who again seemed to be a hoot in class, I hope he stays this energetic throughout our time working together, because he was pretty funny. He was having his students come up with things they 'have to' do at school in Japan to help me get an idea of how things are differnt, and helped one of them come up with the line 'we must have girlfriends in japan', which not only got a laugh out of everone, but also gave kasuga-sensei the opportunity to ask the student if he had a girlfriend, and upon the response of 'no', immediately ask the girl sitting in front if she'd go out with him, since he 'needed' a g/f. lol.

I was able to miss out on cleaning time today since Kasuga-sensei brought me down to the bank to make sure my account got opened today. We had to rush because the bank closed at 3. yes, 3. wtf mate? I was surprised by how much I was able to catch here and there during the discussion between Kasuga and the bank teller. It was also so much easier to open a bank account this time than it was when I was at Kansai Gaidai. I also was relieved to find out that I will be able to withdraw money / pay with my Credit Card here until my bank account actually has money in it, but I'm hoping it wont be neccessary.

As a side note, you may be noticing that my writing lacks apostrophes or proper capitalization at points, which is because i'm still getting used to using a japanese keyboard at school. for one, the backspace key is about half the size, the right shift (which is the only one i use normally) is the size of a letter key, and the apostrophe is the shift & 7 key. freaking annoying.

It looks like the bank account will be officially going here in just a day or two, and I'll have my cash and bank cards as well, which means i can get my cell phone here soon enough.

I ran by my place to pick up my passport to open up my bank account, and there were workers out in the cordoned off area of my [front yard] which actually isnt my front yard but is still out in front. I'm interested to see what they do. Well, I'm getting ready to wrap it up here at school. I'm already learning the way of looking busy even when I'm not. ayiyi!