Today I had another easy day at school. My classes were finished by lunchtime, so I had the afternoon to study and relax. After school, we had our ESS meeting, and we spent some time folding origami cranes while we chatted in English in Japanese.
The origami cranes are part of a massive school project. Every student is expected to fold ten cranes, and the resulting 10,000 cranes will be used to make some kind of display for the upcoming cultural festival. We had some extra paper so Iku-chan, one of the ESS students, helped me learn how to fold one. It wasn’t easy, but everyone was doing well. Harada-san folded a black piano – very impressive!
I went home and had a nice easy Japanese dinner of inari (fried tofu stuffed with sushi rice) leftover from the Tigers game, and some homemade miso soup. After dinner I called Kuniko, hoping to catch her before she went to bed. Instead I woke her up – she was zonked out at 7:30 at night! They are working her hard over there.
We had made plans to meet up in Osaka on Saturday night and eat Shabu Shabu, but she had to cancel. She’s just too tired to do anything, and so we’re going to take the time to catch up on other things. I was disappointed, because I could already taste the Shabu Shabu, but it’s probably a good idea. A quick search through my journal finds that I’ve spent time with Kuniko the last four weekends in a row. Maybe a break would be good.
Anyway, I’m off to bed. Tomorrow is Friday and I’ve got a free weekend ahead of me!
