A dream remembered

I usually never remember my dreams, but today I sensed that I only remembered it because it was something that I needed to do. I strangely woke up at 10am today. It was getting hot, so I rearranged my blinds to block the sun and used some creativity and it worked, my room got much cooler and I was even able to go back to sleep, for at least a little while. It was weird because the dream was very vivid and I couldn’t forget it. Usually my dreams don’t strike much emotion from me, and I usually don’t remember them, but today I couldn’t avoid it. I believe it’s a sign or something.

It had to do with me and teaching English. It hit me what I needed to do in order for me to be a great teacher, which is my goal and the reason why I came to Japan in the first place. I’ve been obsessed with the idea of becoming the best teacher there is in Japan and I really haven’t had much of a plan other than to be creative to have the students enjoy their English class. So far, everything has been going well and better than most classes that teach English, but that’s not good enough for me. I have gotten high praise from my co-workers and from the students last year, but that’s still not good enough for me. I want more, and I know it’s beginning to sound a bit selfish, but I believe that more could be done to make even greater improvements in learning and educating. I think the key to it was in my dream last night too.

I couldn’t really say it was my idea to do everything, since I pretty much stole it from another person in my dream, but it’s my dream right, so it’s ok right???

Other than my dream, I just sat in front of my computer today. I was exploring myspace some more, just to kill time and to do the same with Mixi, which is a Japanese version. It’s helping my Japanese, I think, but probably not. I learned that the translation programs really suck at translating, so I have to rely on what I know to get it done.

Later in the evening, I heard what might be a festival in my area. I think it was at the Elementary school around my area, and it was quite loud. I went to go check it out, but couldn’t find it and I didn’t want to get involved if it was just a little festival because there would be many little kids, and everyone knows I don’t like little kids. I had to tolerate the noise till around 9pm though.

I went for a little walk to Ofuna station to get some dinner. I was walking around for a long time before I settled on what I wanted to eat. I was deciding Freshness Burger or a small little curry shop. I haven’t had curry in a long time so I decided to go with that since I’ve been eating a lot of junk food and feel over bloated. The curry was decent and it was a mixture of many things. It wasn’t too bad, but it wasn’t the greatest curry I’ve had in the world either. It was a mixture so it was pretty expensive, about 1000 yen for one plate, which was more than enough for me because I haven’t been eating much lately, I think I’m getting full faster.

Then I came and typed this entry. It was a pretty chill day. I have received some e-mails from my cell phone from people that I thought I didn’t know, but realized I do know them. I don’t know why I didn’t recognize the name before, that’s incredibly weird. Anyways, I got an e-mail from a “good” friend of mine who invited me to have dinner with her and her friends from high school. It seems to be once a month or once every other month, but they’ve been doing it for years now. I’ve joined them for about 4-5 times already and they are definitely an interesting group of people. I think that since I’m single and looking that I might want to start to make a move on this person that I like. I don’t want to have any regrets and I think that if I wait too long that it won’t be good either. But summer is coming to a close really quick, even though I still have a month left, most of the time I’ll be traveling out of Japan and she’ll be working. Then when school starts, I’ll be working too much and I won’t have much time to meet her. But I think that I should at least let her know that I’m interested. That’s the very least I could do, and then let her think about that.