Meeting at Yoke

Today, there will be another meeting at the YOKE office. I’m not sure how things will turn out, but we will see that later. As things turned out, I felt as if it was a one way conversation. I didn’t feel as if there was much of a discussion because it was more about defending against the criticisms instead of hearing them out. There are many things that could improve with the program and with the system itself, but there’s only so much that this organization can do because of the restrictions of the government and how slow the process is. It was, at the very least something to do and a good way for the delegates to say something. It might not have been heard, which really defeats the purpose of having the meeting in the first place, but it’s a step in the right direction. I only stayed for two hours and had to leave not because I was tired of listening to everything, but because I had another engagement. The YOKE people have gotten better with their time efficiency though, which is a great improvement.

I was going to attend a little get together that was arranged by my pseudo-host mother, MTki. We went to the Ofuna area to go to an izakaya and drinking, I believe we went to a place called Kafune. It wasn’t all that bad, but wasn’t the best food I’ve had either. I didn’t drink any alcohol because I know that I have to go to school tomorrow. I just didn’t want to feel weird when I had a full day of school the next day. Even though I’m not working, I don’t want to feel sick all day. But it was nice, even though I was the youngest person there and by a few years away from everyone else. I met her Yoga teacher, who seems very nice. The food there was pretty good, I mean for an izakaya.

I worked on the syllabus for my 11th grade class when I got home. I did this till about 2am, which I felt was a pretty good time to go to sleep. Even though the plan wasn’t completely finished, I thought that it was a great start to precise planning of the each individual class that I would teach. It was only a start for me, but still it’s a lot more than I get from other teachers since they know what they are doing and I’m only just guessing. I guess they can do that since they have more experience than I do. I think that’s very helpful to be able to learn from them like that too.