Although the weather has been gradually cooling overall, day to day it seems to be jumping around quite a bit. Today it was a warm day, which meant that we were sweating again during our classes.
I had two new lessons today, and they both went fairly well. One is about the weather, and I rigged up some magnetic weather icons that I use on the blackboard on a cheesy map of Japan that I draw. I try to encourage the students to come up and give a weather forecast – I give them an umbrella to hold so it feels legitimate.
After school I went over to the ping pong club to play with the gang. I played a different guy today, and we had some fun. He was taking it slow and we played for about half an hour. It was fun. I’m not sure I’m improving, but it’s fun.
At 5:00, Mr. Hayashi, Mr. Komuri, Mr. Kimura and I left for Kakogawa. We met up with Miss Yamamoto and went to Amuse, a bar that I haven’t been to in a long time. Mr. Komuri was celebrating his 50th birthday, so we made a lot of jokes at his expense. We spent several hours there drinking and speaking English and Japanese. Mostly English, though.
They kept bringing food – somebody had arranged something before hand because I never saw anybody really ordering anything, but food arrived nonetheless. Finally around ten o’clock we set out for the train station. Mr. Kimura walked along with me from Tsuchiyama station, and the time flew while we walked and talked together. I got home around 10:40, just in time to get a message from Kuniko that she was heading my way. I walked down to the Higashi Futami station and met her train there, and we walked back together. At home I caught her up on the events of the day, and all the fun stories that we told at Amuse. We didn’t get to bed until around 1:00 a.m. – it was a long day for both of us.
