A long day at work

Today started a bit early. I didn’t get that good of a sleep last night because I was working till late. There was the new student welcome party at the beginning of the day. It was pretty good and interesting, but similar to the other festival parties that I’ve seen already.

Then there was a teachers’ meeting with all faculty. This lasted for about an hour or so and talking about big things around school, I guess. I wouldn’t really know because it was all in Japanese and I couldn’t understand most of it. Not because I don’t understand Japanese, but couldn’t really understand their Japanese. I think I have selective hearing. Some people’s Japanese is better than others.

Then we took pictures with all the teachers. I was sandwiched between two of the most beautiful women I’ve seen at the school, and who happen to be great people. They actually both just recently gotten married too and seem really happy. I’m really happy for them because they deserve it.

Then we had an English department meeting. Things seemed to drag a bit only because there was so much work to get done, but couldn’t finish on time.

We needed to head out to the new teacher’s party at Imperial Hotel. This was actually a fun event because I knew most of the old teachers and was able to talk to them more often. Even in Japanese. I understood their Japanese, but probably because I’m more used to it.

Then there was the party after the party, which was excellent because I was sandwiched between two of my teacher friends and we had our own little conversation separate from the rest of the teachers. It was a great time to actually get to talk to them and be open about everything. Actually, they just got married too; damn everyone is getting married recently. So she had changed her name and we were talking about the pronunciation of it because the kanji reading has many forms. Then that turned into a Japanese language lesson and then into a whole bunch of other things. I miss being able to talk to them like that. It seems that no one really has time to do that anymore and that since things are changing and school will be starting soon, that there won’t be much more time to do things like that.

Then I hitched a ride with Koyano. I think he got lost again, even though he’s done it a few times. It’s difficult to find my house so I’m not really surprised, but I didn’t really care because I was able to talk to the teacher who used to sit next to me. Now she sits in front and to the right of me. She’s further and buried under a pile of books so it’s hard to talk to her in the office. At least she’s more willing to talk to me, which is great for me.

There were a total of two earthquakes today, they were kinda strong too. I actually felt both of them, but I haven’t felt some that other people said that there were. Like the time I was at the English Speech Contest, I didn’t feel anything but other people said there was an earthquake. I’ll have to go back and try to keep count again.