A Revolutionary day for me

I woke up and found out that it was a bit chilly. I looked outside and all I saw was white. The city was plastered with snow, and I mean it was plastered. I didn’t even see the roads or anything, it was just all white. But I got ready and went to work anyways. I figured that there would be school and didn’t give it a second thought. It really was a snow day and it was the first time for me to walk in the snow like that. It wasn’t that cold since I had on like 6 layers or so and it was pretty cool to see. My day started off pretty easy since I only have one class today and it was at 10:50am and only lasted 50 minutes. All I did in class was listen to my 8th grade students’ speeches. So it was pretty chill.

Then after that, I stayed at school to study Japanese. I really made an effort to try to study Japanese today. I really pushed it hard. I actually started to understand things that I didn’t before. I was getting the help that I needed and things just started to click for me. I’m not saying that I remember all the verbs or vocabulary, but it just started to make sense today. I started to see the big picture. That’s something that I really enjoyed about today because it started to materialize in my mind the purpose for language and how it’s being used.

I studied at school for a good 5-6 hours, until a former student of the school came to visit. She lives in New York now and the other teachers, the top teachers, asked me to converse with her, which I did. At first it was just the surface conversation and chitter-chatter talk. Nothing special, but this conversation soon took about 8 hours of my life. Not saying it was a bad thing, but I think it’s actually a good thing. It’s been a long time since I was able to do that. And I think I learned a lot about the teachers’ history at the school. I never realized so many things that are going around me. I also drank more than any other time since I’ve been in Japan, which to be honest with you still isn’t that much. It was nice to have a conversation in English for a long time since I haven’t done so in a long time. It felt good and I let the other teachers know a little bit more about myself too. I think they really appreciated that since I’ve been very secretive about my life for the better part of 7 months. But I’ve got to wait and see the effects of this in the coming week. I think that many things will change because of this event. I think it was great to have dinner with my superiors. I mean all the people there; with the exception of the former student were the top teachers in the office and at the school even.

So at first I thought it would be a lot of pressure, but I found out that it wasn’t that bad after all. After dinner, Mr. Kyashi took me home, and I mean he drove me to the 7-11 outside. He lives in Northern Yokohama so I know it was an inconvenience for him to take me home, but he did anyways. So that was great. I was happy that happened and told him that I’d like to speak to him more often. He only speaks Japanese so I told him that I will learn Japanese to speak with him. After I got dropped off I just took a rest. I felt it was much needed and started to feel as if something bad was going to happen as well.