This is only Part One, part two will be up shortly.

Another week went away.  That was kinda fast.  And I’m actually updating on a Friday, who knew.  Everyone’s watching a play downtown except me and the dour vice-principal.  Not the cool one I teach with.  This one is so certain that I won’t understand him that he never even bothers to talk to me ( Read more... )

Well, it’s not Monday or Friday.  I need to just make myself sit down and write these.  Hooray for motivational issues.  So.  Since last Wednesday, I believe.

( The week )

Monday again, hooray!

Mostly I update on Mondays cuz it’s the one day I don’t have all that much work to do.  I have to submit the next week’s lesson plan by Friday, and usually my JTEs haven’t gotten a chance to look at it before I’m done with everything for my Monday classes.  So if my first day in my class week changes, (this semester my ( Read more... )

OK so I lied a bit.  Sorrys. >_But the weekend had absolutely nothing to it, so maybe I'm ok ( Read more... )

I have one year left in Japan.

Well, I guess technically it’s less than a year, since my contract ends in early August 2010, but oh well.  I’m going to try really hard to get this thing back up and running.  Right now, the plan is to update every Sunday or Monday evening, and Fridays.   The idea is I’ll try to actually do things on the weekends, ( Read more... )

So, I am missing a lot of stuff.  Ummm, I’ll catch up as I have time.  Sorrys.

Last week was ALT meetings and dealing with midterms week and all sorts of fun stuff.  This week, it’s all about Cultural Festival, or bunkasai.

For culture fest, all of the homerooms and the cultural clubs (English Club, Tea Ceremony, Calligraphy… whatever) put ( Read more... )

OK, sorry for dropping off the face of the planet. 
At some point I will update about stuff.  Ummm wow I'm behind.
Kyoto birthday trip
Hanami with Mayu and by myself.
New Classes!  and working with new teachers
And as of today, Golden Week fun stuff!

I know there's one other ALT out here who updates once a week, every Monday night, I think.  
Maybe I  ( Read more... )

OK, I'm finally caught up!  For about 3 days, then I'll need to post Kyoto trip happenings.  ^_^
Apologies if I've been cluttering up anyone's friends page.  Thanks for puttin up with me!

Let me first put in a little thinger about the English enkai (drinking party) last night. It was for Kawai sensei, my supervisor, since she’s leaving to go to ( Read more... )

Now that I've finished updating events, the fun part starts.  :P

Well, this couldn’t have been better timed, I just finished the weekend blurb, went downstairs to see the ‘new teacher display’ as I kinda thought of it, and found out who my co-teachers this year are gonna be. Two real surprises, one is a bit of a disappointment. This year I will ( Read more... )

OK bear with me, this one's long.

So I’m going to start this off with a quick blurb about the new gizmos in the family - yes there’s a reason. There is a huge 3-story computer store, Eiden, closing downtown, right near the station. It’s kind of scary, akin to Circuit City going out of business back home. Only difference is that it isn’t the whole ( Read more... )