Day 2 without internet

I spent most of the morning and early afternoon working on fixing my internet, but that didn’t work. I’m not sure what the problem could be. It shows that there is a signal, but I can’t connect to it. I think that it might be a problem with the password and security key. I’ll have to find some time to fix that later though.

So instead of checking the news like I usually do, I was just playing some computer games. I was playing solitaire for most of the time actually and working on other things on my computer. I was trying to fix the template for this page, but I haven’t figured out how it works yet. So it might take much longer than I expected to edit my blog so it looks like what I want it to. That was a pretty boring morning for me since I really couldn’t do much. I was just listening to a lot of music too and watching a lot of music videos. I’m debating if I should bring my computer to work tomorrow so I could use the internet there with my computer, to see if it is a computer problem or just an internet problem.

Today, the 11th graders are coming back to Tokyo from Kyushu. We are having a dinner for them when they come back. I didn’t know where, except for that it is somewhere at Haneda airport. Last year we had dinner at a nice Chinese restaurant. All I knew at this time was that I was going to go to school by 3:30pm and leave school around 4pmish. I stuck around school for a little bit helping students with their speeches for the speech contest and a student writing a letter to someone. We didn’t actually leave school till around 4:45pm. There was a situation at school, and that threw everything off schedule. The situation is actually pretty serious and it dealt with a student that was acting poorly. She’s been a troublemaker from the first year that she’s been at the school, and will probably remain a troublemaker till the end of her career at the school. It really is a shame. I happen to teach her for Oral Communication, so it’s bad.

Anyways, we jumped in the car and luckily, there wasn’t any traffic, so we got there a little early before they arrived. We parked next to terminal two, even though the plane would be arriving in terminal one. We knew where the dinner would be held, and it would be at the new Tokyu Excel Hotel. So we parked and ran over to the first terminal to wait. The plane arrived late because they had a problem with the luggage going to a different baggage claim area. So we ended up being really early. I was happy that I was able to talk in Japanese with the teachers before the students arrived. When they arrived, they seemed happy, but tired. I heard that it was a bit warm there so some of the students got tanned. The teachers looked exhausted though.

Then we had dinner. In my opinion and the opinion of some other teachers, the food was just average. I didn’t think that it was anything special. Of course, it is probably more expensive than anything I would normally eat, but it just didn’t seem as good as it should be. There were things on the menu that dropped the quality of the taste. We had a series of sashimi, steak, fish, desert, salad and things like that. But there were things on some of the dishes that killed the taste. Some things were good, like the salad dressing, the bread roll with basil butter, the steak was ok, but the potatoes were good. The fish dish was good. The desert in my opinion was average because it featured a lot berries. The sashimi dish was good too, but a bit small. I think the soup was French onion. Some of the teachers were trying to guess how much it cost. From what I guessed it was about \4000-6000 per person, and we came with most of the teachers in the office.

I got lucky to get a ride back home. I was able to converse better in Japanese than previously. So I’m happy about that. The problem though is that everyone believes that I’ve gotten meaner and bad. They are trying to pinpoint why that is and whose influence.

When I got home, I decided to watch a little of My Sassy Girl. If you haven’t seen it, you should, it’s a great movie. It does remind me a lot about what is going on in my life. I only watched the second half, since I want to get to sleep early enough because I have a full day tomorrow and it will start early. But I like watching this movie. It reminds me a lot of what I need to do while I’m away from home and why I’m here in the first place. I’m not sure if I’m living my dream, or just fantasizing. I’m a bit afraid to go back to San Diego to see what I might find. I know that things have changed, and no matter what, it won’t be the same home that I’m used to. I can’t go back and things will fall into place, because it won’t. I only have that feeling living in Yokohama now. The question that remains in my mind is if I can handle that, and if it’s ok. During dinner tonight, I was sitting with one of the closer friends in the teacher’s office and we were talking about her. She knows a bit about it, but I really haven’t said much. I hope that when she moves to the part-time teachers’ office, we will have more time to talk.

When I go back, I would like to start up the ambassador association again. I got an email from a friend today that one of the members from the time I came to Japan, will come next week. So we plan to hang out with a group of people. Well, I think it will be a group of people. We’ll see.