According to my schedule, Monday was filled with other activities, so I didn’t have any actual classes of my own to teach. Mr. Hayashi invited me to fill in and help him with some of his, and so I went upstairs and surprised some students by appearing unexpectedly.
I spent most of my day lesson planning, and I’m starting to get an idea of what is expected of me. For some of my classes I am working with teachers that want to follow the textbook closely. Most of my classes are similar to last year, where I come up with the entire lesson and then run it by the teacher. Although this method is a lot more work for me, I tend to prefer it.
After school I came home and then went over to the yakitori to catch up with the master and his wife. We chatted for a long time and they cooked me up some kimchee fried rice that was delicious. They said that after the volleyball game they went through four cases of beer, one case of Chu-hi, and two big bottles of Sho-chu. It sounded like everyone was toasted. Luckily the master’s father was there to drive everyone home.
