Beautiful fall

I'll snag pics hopefuly tomorrow, because it's just strikingly beautiful here. The mountains are green, brown, orange, red, yellow, white on the tops. There are reds in the leaves here I have never seen before.

Today, I was pump faked and found out that for Kawaii sensei's 1-1 class, I was going to have to teach on my own since she was gone. I was a bit worried because I wasn't sure what we'd cover, but I ended up lucking out that it was the 1-1 class (since they're a big class they're split) that I really like, so that was a good thing! It also turned out that today we have some head honcho's visiting or something, so Kubota sensei was sent to my class as backup for me, which was nice beacuse then we just did basic textbook stuff while the bigwigs were in the class looking on, and then I played the 'typhoon' game with them in the 2nd half.

My next class was with Kasuga sensei, and we did a 'skit' where we talked about similarities between Xmas in america and new years in japan. It was pretty cool and the head honcho's showed up again and the principle talked to me afterwards about how interesting he thought it was, so I think we made a good impression. I also lucked out by wearing a tie today and looking spiffy. whew. The class with kasuga also moved into the next lesson, where we did the new dialogue about 'silent night' etc. We also got to listen to the song, but the boys in this class are so freaking rowdy. Kasuga chewed them out for me, which was nice lawl.

It's also been getting pretty cold here, which has helped outline just how weak my cardboard walls are. I've been getting into the style of making sure to cordon off sections of my apt. so that I'm not stuck leaving the header on constantly, and I need to run to a store and pick up some more socks and maybe wool slippers or something. wahh! It's also brutally cold in the hallways at school, since some parts are open air and they just have heaters in the different rooms.

during cleaning time, I decided to head on outside and help some of the students doing the raking of leaves. BRR! it was so cold! I ended up helping severl different students, but included one of the girls from the super shy 3 girl class, but she's the most extroverted of them. she did a little jump and looked genuinely shocked to see me come out and start helping her. I laughed pretty hard to myself about that.

Today I get to have 'mediterranean sea curry' and i bought the hottest one they have, because japanese curry is so freaking weak. nom nom nom.