As I sit in the teachers' room, I am currently sweating and dabbing my face with a wet cloth periodically. One thing about Japanese summers is HUMIDITY SUCKS. This is my first time in the rainy season, which means that the weather is crazy bipolar. One minute you'll be taking a walk on a sunny afternoon, and the next minute you'll be running for shelter because the heavens decided to open up and dump holy buckets of water on your head. Then once you finally get home, everything clears up. One good thing though, is there are some wonderful thunderstorms. ^_^
Yesterday when I got to school, I was asked if I was going to play volleyball. "Why would I?" There was a parents' day scheduled for after lunch (which I had learned about the previous day). Afterwords, some of the parents and teachers would play a volleyball tournament and have a party. Thank-you vice principal for telling me, otherwise I wouldn't have known (-.-;)
The observational class went well, the kids and parents looked like they had fun. In volleyball, the vice principal named himself my manager and kept telling everyone in a loud voice that I was the best player there because of my height. Aaand then we started playing. I was far from the team ace, but did decently.
Then we all sat down for a toast and "nomikai," a drinking party, with the parents. These occasions can be pretty awkward considering my lack of conversational skills in Japanese, but it turned out alright. I even learned some sign language from a parent!
After that I had to turn down requests to go to the after-party since there was the adult English class in 15 minutes. Ah well.
Japan was defeated by Paraguay I think last night in the soccer world cup. They were pretty excited about it here and a lot of people stayed up 'till 11:00 to watch the start. It was the headline in today's paper.
BIG NEWS!!
Tomorrow some people from the board of education and I will go to pick up Amy at Nagoya airport. She is the new ALT in town, and my new American buddy. Everyone's pretty excited.
Also, I mentioned in previous posts about a wonderful neighbor that likes to ruin my day. Well, I talked with Katsuno-san this morning, and it seems like he might be leaving. Yesterday the cleaning crews came to take care of Amy's new apartment (which is on the other side of the neighbor's wall), and he basically told them that they were being annoying and to shut up. I guess that was the last straw for the town, because on Saturday, he and the mayor will meet, and the mayor will ask him to move somewhere else. I'm a little relieved that he's leaving (I can watch TV anytime I want! Yay!) but looks like we probably won't be becoming friends anytime soon. Ah well ^^; Katsuno-san told me to tell Amy to watch out for him while he's still here. Kowai~
And now, in the spirit of soccer season, I give you: Kitty watching soccer!
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