It was a beautiful day

At first when I woke up, I was feeling energized. I don't know why but on the train, I was feeling pretty good. Then when I got to school, I started to get a little sleepy, which was weird since I got enough sleep. I always make sure I get enough sleep because I work longer hours and I need to rest.

The classes today were pretty chill. I enjoyed them and it didn't require too much work on my part. But I'm glad that I'm there to help. The 8th graders were going over their skits for the English festival next month. One class is doing the Sound of Music, and the other class is doing the Blue Bird.

I really have no idea what the Blue Bird is about, and it's very intriguing. They really got into the acting part. Especially with all the expressions and the enthusiam with it. But the background people are way too loud that sometimes they drown out the performers, which was a surprise to me since they were also loud. I had the honor of watching the Blue Bird twice today. Since I didn't have a 6th period, I was asked by the teacher who sits in front of me to watch them and correct their English. I started off slow because I seemed a tad disoriented, but after awhile I was correcting things here and there. I think some had gotten worse since the 4th period when I saw them. They were starting to use their scripts when in the other class they weren't using them as much. It was fun watching them, and the songs are sung so wonderfully. It's really amazing... even though they have no idea what their singing.

I stayed after a little bit because of the English club, but it seemed so stranged that today I was actually fairly busy. There were a couple of teachers who had asked for my help all at the same time. I'm glad that I'm finally being included and I don't want to let them down, since this could be the only opportunity I have to get some brownie points with the other teachers. So I'm doing the best I can while I have many things to do.

Club finished around 5:30pm tonight because everyone needed to leave and do something else. The girls were extremely dead today, could be because they got their results for their tests back... I would imagine they didn't do so well. I know only because I scored them... and it wasn't so favorable. I expected more, well actually I expected something, but their speeches weren't all the great, and one of them didn't give one...

Anyways, I finished around 6:30pm, with writing in my journal and all the other things. I was just about to leave, when The Chief of Staff asked me to do something, of course her English is completely non-understandable and she knows it. In fact I think she does it on purpose. The "idea" was that she wanted me to go buy some batteries and a snack for the staff, but I knew that she really didn't trust me to go get it, but no one else wanted to go. I understood what she meant through her horrible explaination, but I didn't want to go either.

So I played dumb and she passed off the duty to someone else. I mean time flew by fast because as I was leaving, the food was arriving and of course they forced me to eat it before I left. Meaning I had to sit and eat because it's not a Japanese custom to eat and walk. So, by the time I finish, I have everyone asking me how was it. It was just a cream filled custard... nothing incredibly special, in fact the ones at Ranch 99 in San Diego are much better. Of course I didn't tell them that. Then after I finished, I was approached by many teachers again asking me about different things.

But to my surprised, Ms. Asada asked for my help. This is actually a rare thing that she asks for anyone's help. But it dealt with the history of California, and well I'm from California, so I would be a good candidate to help. She wanted to know if I could get some posters, or pictures or a video advertising the beginnings of California. I said no problem, I'll do some searching and see what I can pull up.When I got home, I started doing some research. But nothing. There aren't any places in Japan that have much stuff on California. Much to my surprise. And if you are still reading and have some available resources to help me. It would be GREATLY APPRECIATED if you could do that for me. I'm still doing a bunch of research and I've found nothing.