Catching up in SHORT posts 2 :)

Ok, another short post hopefully, while in the catch up stage!!

Last week was rather lax during the work days. I had Jacks Eikawa class on Wednesday evening, and they are such a pleasant group of people. It’s obvious that they want me to stay longer than a year in Japan. I don’t think it has anything to do with teaching them since I’ll cease to be their Eikawa instructor after this month. I think they consider me their friend, and want me to stick around for a while. I’m truly not sure about how long my term will be here, but it’s refreshing to know that there are places here that I am wanted.

Fast-forwarding to Friday (Oct 16th) because I simply don’t’ remember what happened Thursday (not that it held major importance). It was a good work day at Koshino, (which arguably is my favorite school of the ones I teach). After school I went to the Sneek presentation with Lawrence and saw Reina again face to face for the first time since summer. It was good to see her. Just as adorable and beautiful as ever. I ended up giving a note and present to three of my students, Kahoko and Yuka (those two are the ones I helped on their presentation at Koshino) and Reina because she is a friend. The emails of broken English I get from her always brighten my day, and I know she is going to grow to be something incredible pending she lasts the “fashion and become submissive stage” of high school. After the presentation me and Lawrence met up with some other Niikawa ALT’s at Pizza Jamboree (best pizza in the Ken, and 7 minutes down the street). Good company and conversation as always some in which concluded Canadians, Bears( not the animal but well, yea.. >.>) and more. Once the others had finished their plates we headed off to Lawrence’s house to see his kittens. Ofcourse I’ve seen then being his neighbor but others wanted to see them. Unfortunately we ended up wasting about an hour and a half there because some were just waay too fascinated with the cats. When we all finally got our bearings the troop headed to Uozu for a round of Karaoke. There were eight of us and we sang our hearts out for two hours. Such songs from musicals, Disney, rock & roll to random rap songs which I had to rap parts too because others didn’t want to. Mind you I’m no rapper, I just happen to know songs and thus knowing the beat helps me pretend XD. I really want to be able to sing Japanese songs in the future. I know so many songs and yet cant sing any of them. One day Ill be singing theme songs and L’arc en Ciel songs , and THAT will be a proud day. Once it was time to leave I ended up driving to Asahi (about 35 to 40 minutes away) to drop Adam off. I didn’t want him to miss the fun so I opted to give him a ride instead of him taking a early train back. We had good conversation, mostly about Japan and our comparisons of Japan with other things from back home. He treated me to Mc Donalds along the way as a “least I can do” gesture for taking him home. As simple as that was, I missed going to a random restaurant late at night because I was up and hungry. Something you really can’t do in Japan, and even in places that you can most of them are sit down restaurants and no one wants to deal with that at 2am in the morning. After dropping him off I went back home and passed out. 

Saturday was a day where I rested mostly. I honestly don’t recall doing much. I think I might have gone food shopping but I’m not sure. XD

Sunday(18th) was relaxing for the most part. Matt and Kelli came by to pick of their kitten that Lawrence was giving to them, and I decided to join them for lunch at Pizza Jam (short of Jamboree). No one else in the ken gets the chance to eat pizza all that often, and more often then not when they do it isn’t great. So treating anyone who visits to Pizza is always a fun thing. They enjoyed the pizza and we all talked about random things, trips we want to go on, a fabulous steam punk watch shop that’s in Kyoto,( which hopefully next year in March I’ll have the chance to visit) and more. The rest of that Sunday was devoted to something I don’t remember XD.

**Side Note: Once I manage to catch up, I think Ill explain the scenery around Kurobe and mention a list of accomplishments since I’ve been here, though admitingly some if not all of them are rather miniscule and will not advance my person in the future lol