CD burning Monday

That was pretty much the story for my day. I didn’t do much but burn CD’s today. After I had worked on making the speeches ready for the recitation contest that is coming up in June, I was asked to burn them onto CDs so that they would be given to the students before Golden Week, which starts this Friday for them and Thursday for me. I walked into work about an hour early and got started right away. I wasn’t planning on doing this since I thought that they had someone that they could pay to get it professionally done. But I guess that plan fell through and I was left burning some 160 discs for my students on a few laptops that were crappy as hell. It took a long time because of the slow burning speed and because most of the time, it just wouldn’t burn. I didn’t finish till around 7:30pm starting at 11am. Now that’s long, I only had two classes today, so the rest of the day was devoted to burning.

I did get to walk to the train station with the cute new teacher and we had a conversation about my teaching style as opposed to CP and how things are ran at the school. She had mentioned to me that she wanted me to include her in a more active role in my classes, and I can truly understand where she is coming from. So I explained to her my position and the situation that is going on at the school, but I then told her that I would do my best. And since I’m the leader in some of the classes, I’m just going to do things my way, whether they are good or not.

I had KFC for dinner tonight, which was good. I was watching SMAP X SMAP, which I think would be my favorite show in Japan. It’s really interesting and great to watch. Then after that I was checking up on the news and heard that there was a massive train accident in the Kansai area. It’s really quite freaky because trains are the backbone to the country. Without them, the country couldn’t function because no one would be able to get to work. I mean it was pretty bad, the worst in 40 years. It puts things into perspective again and now I’m looking at things that I haven’t looked at for awhile.