Exhausted / Speech Contest / English Club Party

I couldn’t sleep last night and today I had work early as hell. So I didn’t sleep at all. I’ve been going for over 24 hours straight with no sleep, not even on the train. I was afraid to go to sleep on the train because I would have missed my station for sure. If I would have fallen asleep, I would have been out for a long time. I was that tired from all the walking that I’ve been doing recently and the no sleep too. It might have been all the tea that I was drinking last night too. But whatever the cause of it, I had to go through the day with it.

I mean I wouldn’t have had enough sleep either way. I had to get up at around 5am to get to work by 8:30am before my shift as a judge for the speech contest. My two shifts watching about 60 students give their speeches was pretty easy. You could really tell who had been practicing very hard for their performances and who wasn’t. I felt bad for those who had forgotten a line or two in their speeches after they’ve been practicing for a long time for that one moment. I mean the preparations for this contest started about the same time I got hired, which was back in the day. I thought that for the most part, the students I was working with did a good job, but some didn’t show up. I thought that was a bit of a shame. The big one was the competition in the last session when some of the best English speakers at the school were giving their performances. I think that the last person would be one of the winners because she did a good job with a simple speech. I think the event was put together well and showed the effects of all the hard work by all the English teachers to be able to provide an event like this. I was enjoying my time awake, but still yearning to get some sleep after the event.

I had stuck around the school for a little bit afterwards since I didn’t have much responsibility on Saturday; but we still had the English club party afterwards. It was supposed to start at 2:30pm, but it didn’t get going till around 3:30pm. The students were working hard to get things started and they did a good job to prepare everything. This party just lasted forever. It was a good party and I got to meet the two senior girls that have just graduated. I think it was a nice way to end the school year. We stayed pretty late; I would guess that we left around 8pm. I was one of the last teachers to leave today. I had wanted to talk to another teacher, kind of my senpai, which means senior English teacher. She seemed distraught because of her conversation with her boss. It didn’t seem as if she was doing well. I was doing my best to be encouraging, but not sure if that worked out very well or not. We talked only a little as we were walking to the station. She was supposed to meet her husband not too far away. I hope that things work out for her, it would really be bad if it didn’t.

When I got home, I had wanted to sleep, but I didn’t feel so tired when I arrived home. So I jumped on the computer and did some chatting and other things. But eventually I would get tired enough to find a way to sleep tonight.