Weekend Leadup

Yesterday wasn't a particularly eventful day, I had several classes which went well, enjoyed myself, and went to watch the 3rd year class 3 practice singing during 5th period. This was a fun time, and of course, they asked me for advice after they finished. I said that everyone was good, but that the bass section needed to be louder etc. I was thanked by their teacher later on for 'coaching his class', which was nice of him.

I found out just how 'convienant' japanese conbini's are yesterday, when I was able to pay my electric bill at one while picking up some coffee and such. That was awesome! :-) I cooked myself some super delicious spaghetti for dinner last night. I think I'm really getting the hang of being a solo chef :P

A new girl came to school yesterday, her japanese name is 'Mayumi' but she's actually Stephanie from Brazil. I really like the foreign students here :-) they're really nice.

I've been watching 'Firefly' this week, and I have to say it's really a shame that FOX messed it up, because it's a great show.


Today I checked papers in 1st period with Kawai sensei, and that was about it. boring-desu.
2nd and 3rd period the lvl 2 classes were practing a dialogue that was about calling someone on the phone, so to practice, i went to the english teacher's room and answered the phone with the students to do a mock conversation. It was mildly amusing, especially the part where for one of the boys who i knew, when he called (for kubota's class she let me know the order of students) i picked up and said:

もしもし。これは飯島中学校です。京都先生です。　aka. Hello, this is Iijima Junior High School. Kyoto-sensei speaking. ahaha, I scared the poor guy a bit :-p.

So, I"m paying about 50$ a month for school lunch, which is pretty darn cheap considering the meals we get. For example: today I had caviar for lunch. Actually, I bit into the fried fish we were having for lunch, and found it was stuffed with caviar. Holy cow. It was pretty good too!

It's been rainy today (and yesterday too) so my umbrella has gotten used too.

I'm going ot get my cell phone after work today with Kawai sensei, so I'm greatly appreciative of that. Finally! The city office is also still working on getting me that new bike, but the vice-principle seemed to be adamant about me not getting my car. I'll be tenatively pushing this forward next week too, because frankly, I can have a car whether they want me to or not, but I want to be civil about it.

I don't have any particular plans for tonight, but tomorrow I"m heading to Matsumoto to meet up with an OT'er who is there visiting family. Kinda excited! I'm unsure what we'll be doing exactly, I'm wanting to avoid anything particularly touristy since he grew up there, so maybe visit the shopping district or something. It's supposed to be pretty cool. We'll see!