It’s Monday and the start of kind of a weird work week for me. On Tuesday and Thursday I have training by the staffing company that I work for. Apparently it is only for about two hours each day, and I don’t have to go back to my school. Apparently. We’ll see how it works out, though.
Friday is a national holiday, so I really only have today and Wednesday as work days. That’s nice!
Today was a piece of cake – three classes in the morning. One of my classes was with Matsunaga sensei, and she seemed a little nervous today. She made several big mistakes in English. When I say big, I mean, all the students noticed the mistake and there was no question it was her. I try to smooth things over when my teachers make mistakes, but if it’s a big enough one I can’t really do anything to help. Today she made like three of these when normally I’m the one that is a little slow. She rebounded nicely, though, and I didn’t dwell on it. Other than recording it in my web diary for all eternity, I mean.
Kuroda sensei came by my desk several times today, and I could tell she wanted to talk about something, but it took most of the day for her to spell it out for me. She said that she met a really nice guy, and she wanted to tell me all the details. Unfortunately we didn’t have time, so we’ll try and catch up later this week. I think that was a pretty short time being single, though. I don’t know how I ended up being her personal life confidant. Maybe it’s because we can talk about it around other teachers and students and nobody can understand us.
In the afternoon the students did a final practice for the big all-junior high school sports day tomorrow. Since I’m in training I’m going to miss the event. It’s too bad – it sounds like a big deal.
I’m back home now and starting to think about what to cook for dinner. Kuniko is coming home late tonight so I’ve got time to consider. I’m thinking spicy stir-fry and rice. We made a visit to Kuniko’s folks’ place last night, and so we brought home loads and loads of vegetables, despite a vow that we wouldn’t bring home very much this time. They just won’t take no for an answer over there. Tonight maybe we can knock down the inventory just a little bit.
