Feb is flyin by!

I guess!

I've been trying to save some money finally! As I'm leaving for England 6/4! Can't believe that I'll only be living here for about another 3 months. My part-time job ends 3/3 then it's basically smooth sailing until then try and stack cash. I haven't been updating as much as I've wanted to because my phone camera sucks now! I don't know what happened but something with the focus is all messed up, looks like I may have to pick up a digital. Going to take it to the phone shop and see if they can't fix it. see what I'm talking about....



well that was against the reflection of my car so it's not too bad...but look how this castle turned out :(



Anywho...Been trying to just stay on top of things. Big test week for the students this week and we hit a bit of a heat wave too! The weather has been really nice! Trying to study a little bit and getting a little bit back in shape too...Other than that there's not much time besides the weekend, where I'll usually snowboard two days and be ready for the week all over again!

So there's the announcement, 3 more months out here...anyone coming to visit?!?!?!?

A Thursday Off!

And it just happens to be Japan's Independence Day!

And it's warm and raining outside when it was supposed to be cold and snowing. Going night riding I hope it doesn't rain on me!

Went to my local bar last night because the owner asked me to draw something up on photoshop. Was about to talk to the bartenders and understand all the customers that I was talking to!!!! It's a very good feeling but there's also a long way away until I'm where I want to be.

For example there's still a lot I can't bring up in conversation, although I want to...I just know to steer clear but my vocabulary isn't too great in that area. Also, half of the time they are correcting my grammer...kind of it's pretty funny how they we understand each other although my J is so butchered.

Anyways I thought I would write it down so I have some motivation to study up!

Been listening to a lot of Drake lately...I think he's getting pretty big stateside, well he's doing a lot of work with Lil Wayne and Kanye West so I'm sure he's blowing up, but I dig it...sometimes a little too much auto-tune though......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha80ZaecGkQ&feature=fvsr

lol beware!!!

Highlight of my Friday...

Just so happened to be during my first class.... let's see if i can dig up a peep of these guys...so funny.



So everyone's in class goofing around before class starts...there's 5 kids(one's not in this pic). So two of them come out to my desk where I'm working and say,"Brian, Mei, Risa, and Kiyu aren't in the class it's very strange", in Japanese. So I say well lets go look for them they have to be in there somewhere. Of course, they're hiding pretty well...I walk in and they jump out and try and scare me. Of course I say I was totally surprised :), but then one student, Mei, bottom left on the photo says, "April fools!!!" which is funny by itself, then she thinks for a sec then says, "no,Febuary fools!!"

First, I was cracking up! Friggin cute, and I was also so stoked this girl new the months of the year...it's kinda hard to teach to kids that young.

..It was a very nice start to my Friday.

Look @ Chich...trying to steal some water from my glass, tried to catch her in the act, can still see a little tongue.

Sometimes I forget how easy my job is...

Getting ready for another day at the office, I basically get to wear anything I want, which I seem to be forgetting how much of a luxury that is!



Work is SO easy. My classes yesterday went really well, I'm somehow getting better at teaching I think. Not necessarily with teaching the content I'm supposed to, but really connecting with the kids and having them try to express themselves and be relaxed. My last class I was pretty much laughing the whole time because my junior high school students are so funny!

This week been in a funky mood. Unfortunately been thinking about leaving a lot, which is where I don't want my mind being, but I guess I can't help it. Was thinking about taking the trans-siberian express to link up with Katie for her wedding but not sure how everything will work financially yet. We shall see....>!

A good Monday!

haha...

So I had my part-time job today @ my kindergarten. Was going over the weather with my 5 and 6 year olds, at the time it was cloudy. So I decided to ask if they think it was going to rain today, half the class raised their hands. I heard a bunch of mumbling about it snowing, so I asked who thought it was going to snow, the half who thought it was going to rain raised their hands along with the other half. Then I asked who thought it was just going to stay cloudy...just me and the other Japanese teacher raised our hands lol.

About and hour later it started to rain, about two hours after that it started snowing! So much that the trains got shut down and I had to give some friends a lift home because they were stranded at the train station...I thought it was pretty funny a little later about the kindergartners.

A pic of my street after I came back from dropping my peeps off, little dark :(