Getting to Know My Classmates
On Tuesday I went to dinner with my classmates and two of our teachers. We were celebrating the birthday of the woman from Singapore and went to an Italian restaurant, which was quite amusing as one of my classmates is from Italy. The food was pretty good for Japanese style Italian, though the pizza looked and tasted similar to Pizza Hut. I sat with the Italian guy, the Korean guy and the Brazilian guy. I realised I find it a bit awkward talking to the Korean guy, as it's very hard to know what he's thinking. However, he's definitely interesting to talk to. Towards the end of the evening everyone was a lot more chatty and we had fun teasing the Korean guy about one of the waitresses he liked the look of (who it turns out wants to be a teacher of Japanese for foreigners). I entertained my table with my "adventures" as an English teacher and the Korean guy told us about the compulsory military service in South Korea. I generally get on with everyone in my class, though I have to admit one of the Taiwanese students is starting to annoy me slightly. He has a habit of correcting people when they make mistakes in Japanese, which isn't bad in itself. It's his tone of voice and attitude when he does it that annoys me. I'm waiting for him to correct me that way, though to be fair he always responds to me fairly politely.