The latter part of my day...

So, after lunch today was a brief cleaning period (i opted to clean the railings outside the 2nd story (the earthquake escape route) so I could enjoy the outside). After that, I went to the gym and watched the three different 3rd year classes sing some songs as individual classes, which was neat to see classes with students who aren't even that big on choir still give it a go. They were all good, but of course the class with the choir students were incredible. In fact, they were on par with some of the stuff we did in high-school, awesome stuff.

I rounded out my day with preparing my lvl 1 baseball game, and then headed on out from school.

I stopped by the store to pick up some more soy sauce, veggies, and meat (to stock up). I saw a guy there who looked like a buff native American, mainly because he was driving a black Bronco pickup, and yes, it had the steering wheel on the American side, so I wonder if there are even laws about that in Japan (or america for that matter!).

As I was walking home, I turned a corner and saw three girls from the Jr. high, I stopped, pulled out my headphones, said hi, and asked if they were walking the same way I was. Man, those poor girls were completely blindsided. One of them tried to immediately turn up the street to walk a different direction, but the other two finally pulled her back, and they basically had no idea what to do. So I laughed, said I'd see them tomorrow, and continued on. I got to my turn, and started walking up the hill, I turned around and waved goodbye to them (since there's a little path to take straight ahead that i've seen numerous students take (originally i thought it was to a house, but turns out it just goes right by a house/through a garden and saves them all of 10 seconds of walking :P). Well, they waved back, and I just went on home. As I was getting close, I turned around to make sure it was ok to switch sides of the street I was walking on, and saw two of the girls walking up the hill.

So I turn into my driveway and start walking up it to the house, and as I'm walking along the front, I have a really good view (since there's no obstructions and I'm higher up) but from where the girls were, It's really hard to see anything, so I saw them running up the hill to see where exactly I lived. Well, I see this and I'm laughing pretty hard and wave at them again when they come into view. they look pretty sheepish again and wave back.

After I got in, I saw them reading my address (at the end of the driveway) to see exactly where I lived. Hah.

I had gyoza (dumplings) and fried rice for dinner. I gotta say, I'm loving making it, it's super delicious, filling, etc. I also snagged some coffee for tomorrow.

I've been asked by Ben (the nagano PA (Prefectural Advisor) to make sushi at the nagano JET workshop in early october. Apparently Matsuda-sensei mentioned that I make sushi in my letter of rec. to JET way back, and so now they have this notion that i'm some sort of freakin chef! ahah. We'll see :P