Today everyone was busy getting ready for sports day tomorrow, but we managed to squeeze in a few classes. I had just two classes today, which is a lot less than usual. I had lots of extra time today, so I got some good study time in. Lots of students came by my desk to see what I was up to.
The students are not shy about walking up and seeing just what exactly I’m doing. Some of them will sneak up on you and put their arm around your shoulders, others will pat me on the back as they walk by, and I think on a whole junior high school students are more touchy than high school students.
Towards the end of the day I went outside and helped kids pound stakes into the ground with a sledgehammer. The students followed me around, asking me questions about Kuniko and about my life in Japan. Two girls wanted to pull out one of my eyelashes as a souvenir. What is it about hair as a keepsake with these guys?
I had a very smooth commute back home and I’m just relaxing and watching the Tigers game on TV. Last night we got a TV stand over and Saty, and we brought it home and put it together. Now the TV setup looks much better. Instead of sitting low on the floor it is quite a bit higher. For some reason it makes it look bigger. We’ve got two DVD players (one that plays only Japanese DVDs and the other that plays DVDs from anywhere), and a VCR. We don’t have any tapes to test it out, though, so I’m not sure if that will work or not.
Dinner’s ready, so I gotta run. Tomorrow is sports day at school, and a party afterwards. Hopefully I’ll have a ton of pictures to post!
