Now that I’m back in my normal routine at work things are going pretty well. The weather seems to have turned a corner and we can finally see signs of the approach of autumn. The last few evenings we could sleep without the air conditioner running, and that is a great sign.
September is the last month for my current term of students. From October it looks like I’ll be teaching the new employees that joined the company in April of this year, and I’m looking forward to working with them. They are pretty comfortable using English, so I’m going to need to design a curriculum that will challenge them but also not frustrate others that don’t have the same skill level. In the next few weeks we should get the details ironed out and I’ll shift into a completely new style of teaching. Of course I’ll still be teaching about 15 students on a one-on-one basis, which is always my preferred teaching style.
In my spare time I’ve been reading a lot more than usual. I’ve been using a Kindle to read, since I thought a bigger screen and lighter device would be best. I am really liking it, and I’m reading a lot more than I usually do.
Last weekend we received a big bag of unpolished rice from Kuniko’s parents, so we took the bag out to a special shed that houses a machine that polishes rice for you. It cost about 300 yen to polish 30 kg of rice, and that should keep us going well into next year. Hopefully we can finish the rice before any bugs get in there. I don’t mind bugs, actually. Once you boil the rice they are just more protein for the mix, right?
