A fun and interesting day

I got started like usual today. I woke up late and scrambling to get out of the house quickly, which I miraculously did. I don’t know exactly how I did it, but I got out quickly and got to school right when I wanted to arrive. It was great because I got to sit down on both the trains I needed to take to get to work and slept the whole way. For some reason, I was very tired and it was probably because I wasn’t feeling any better than I was yesterday.

The first class I had today was with 7th grade kiku. We were working with the recitation contest and the students had to go in front of the room to recite their scripts as a group.

The second class today was with 8th grade ran and they were working on the next chapter on suggestions. They did the dialogue like the way that we showed them how to do it and it worked out great.

The third class today was with 8th grade yuri and they were able to do the same thing as the last class too. They were really tired it seemed, but they did it. It was a bit hot and humid today too. But that was only inside of the building, while outside, it was cool.

The last class today was with 11th grade kiku. I was a bit hard on them today because I wanted to push through all the things that we needed to get finished today. I wanted to make sure that everyone was still up to par and taking care of the things that I needed them to take care of. I passed out the new textbooks today for them to work on the dialogue and new vocabulary. They also got a little grammar lesson today and even presented a few of their sentences that they were able to make.

I left school early today because the guys in the part-time teachers’ office wanted to play some pool and I would join them. So we walked over to Jiyugaoka and played some pool. It was really fun and I started off great. I made this one shot that was absolutely incredible. I did a jump shot that almost went off the table, but it came back and knocked two of my balls in. It was great. One of the coolest shots I have ever seen too. I can’t believe that I did it too. But after that, everything went downhill. When all was finished, I probably ended up being the 3rd best out of 5. It’s not bad, but it’s not great either. One of the members had to leave to go to his college for some reason.

After that we went to have dinner with some other part-time teachers at tori yoshi. We joined two other teachers that were already there. So the total was now 6. It was pretty good and really wasn’t enough for us. We stayed there for a few hours and then we left. Some of the part time teachers had to leave at this point.

Then there were 4 members left and we decided to go to Big Echo and sing a little bit. My voice was really cracking at this point since I was sick and all.

And I can’t believe that after we finished, we went to another izakaya to eat and drink again. It was the first time that I went to 4 events in one day. It was the fourth thing we did together at Tofuro in Jiyugaoka. I mean we didn’t finish till around 11:30pm. And two of the teachers were going to go to Funabashi to meet up with another teacher too. That was absolutely crazy.

On the way home, I ran into one of my friends from the Red Shoes organization. I haven’t seen him still November, so it was nice to see him. I introduced him to my co-worker that was next to me and we were all talking on the train. It was pretty cool. They both live on the same line so it was nice that I introduced both of them to each other. It would be nice have someone to talk to on the way home, but for me, I didn’t have anyone. I didn’t get home for another hour after that which was around 1am. I showered and slept immediately.