On Friday I had the usual four classes in the morning, although I got my new schedule and it looks like things will get a little shaken up in the near future. I should have about the same amount of classes, but a few afternoon classes. My body is already used to opening up my bento lunch at break and knowing that my day is essentially over.
During my break in the afternoon one of the English teachers, Higuchi sensei, came over and chatted with me for about 45 minutes. She is nice on the surface, but you soon realize that she is one of the most pessimistic people you’ll ever meet. Today was the first time that I noticed that it lasted for more than a few minutes. It is actually part of her personality.
For example, she started out the conversation with “Well, you must hate it here already!” From there it was me putting a positive spin on everything, and her looking at the same thing from the worst possible viewpoint. I felt bad for her – it must be exhausting to look for the bad part of everything. After a while I tried to think of things that nobody could argue a bad side for – but she was just unwilling to look at anything positively.
Today was the last working day of the month, so I had to turn in the paperwork for the company I work for. It was my first time doing it, but it went pretty smoothly. Now I should get a paycheck in about two weeks and then I’ll finally see the fruits of my labors.
I came home and opened up a bottle of sake to enjoy while I waited around for Kuniko to get home. She got home on the late side, tired from a long day at work and we hit the hay pretty early – she has to go right back to work on Saturday morning.
