hyaku nin isshu

Today I was invited to come back to school because of an annual festival they play on the last day of school. It's called Hyaku nin isshu, which means one hundred people, something. It's a compelation of 100 songs that are read with 5,7,5,7,7 syllables. Kinda like a Haiku poem. The object of the game is to grab the 7,7 syllable card of that verse. It's interesting, to say the least. I played for a little bit, and all the characters are in hiragana, and fortunately for me I could read Hiragana. I didn't do so well because the students memorized parts of the song and grabbed the card before I could even hear the 7,7 verse.

After that I stayed in the office for a long long time. I got some stuff that I needed for some of my classes next year, so I worked to complete as much as I possibly could. I didn't end up finishing work until 8pm, which is really long since I usually leave at 5pm and that's already at a late time. Since I'm allowed to leave when I don't have any classes. The benefit of being more than part-time and less that full-time. But I'm not sure if things will be changing for next year. They will expect me to step up and to take on more classes so CP could reduce her load. Which would be nice for the both of us. But they are asking that I make my own schedule and I pick out the classes I want to do.

I'm looking at taking on 18 classes, but that would be pretty difficult considering the amount of work that I put into planning and preparation. But it's only 3 more than the minimum. I would like to maintain a Wednesday day off, and I'm afraid they will move me to the part-time office. Since it's much smaller and I would be disconnected with the teachers. But I'm pretty sure that it might happen. So that's part of the reason why, but if I'm in that office I'll also look for another part-time job to make some extra cash on the side, since I'd take full advantage that not many teachers would see me when I leave. Part of the reason why I stay so long is to keep the image of me working hard, and I wouldn't want that destroyed because I want them to take me serious that I could teach. Which I think I did pretty well so far.Anyways, they made me eat this Oshiru, which is a type of bean paste soup. The soup was interesting, but the mochi dipped in it was kinda weird. I'm not a big fan of mochi, since it just tastes plain to me. But it's not like I hate it either. Anyways, that's a fairly good update.