I feel like I’ve been sick for a month, even though it’s only been since Thursday. I definitely improved today, and slept a little more than normal last night. This morning I lost any ground that I had gained by doing two classes of paper airplanes. The classes went pretty well – I changed the format a little bit and threw some ringers in there to make it tough. I swear some student is going to catch one in the eyeball – I’m sure they’re going to put my head on a spike for that. Until that happens, I’m the most popular teacher on campus.
I sat in on an English teacher’s meeting – one that I normally skip. They wanted me there because we are getting ready to fail one student, and possibly kick her out of school. Her grades were abysmal, and I guess her attitude is pretty poor too. I guess they would feel guilty kicking out one of my students without me knowing about it first. I’m not sure why.
Everyone felt sorry for me and sent me home early – I must be pretty pathetic in there. Miss Kageyama insisted on coming over and cheering me up. I gave her the whole biohazard/quarantine speech but she just ignored it. I’m going to feel really bad if she gets sick. We sat around the house her until dinner time and then we went out for a big bowl of spicy ramen. Afterwards we walked the length of Carrefour to exercise a bit and also to dream up some ideas for Miss Kageyama’s new place.
Tomorrow is her last class at Takasago Minami. Around the 24th of this month she will move to Osaka and start to get settled there. She’s pretty excited about the move, but it sounds like she’s a little scared too. I think she’ll enjoy living there, and it’s only an hour to get home and see her folks – so, no problem.
Also, tomorrow my plane ticket should arrive for my trip to South Korea next week. The plan is to fly into Seoul on the 17th, and fly back home on the 19th. Do I have a hotel? No. Do I even have an idea of what Seoul is like? No. Am I prepared? Not even close. It should be a fun adventure. The ticket is dirt cheap – around $200 for a roundtrip from Osaka. Nice! The next few days are pretty quiet for me, so I’m going to use the time to figure out what to do. Apparently you can travel the length of the country on train in about four or five hours, so I should be able to see quite a bit. I’m going to eat a lot of spicy food, too!
