The tail end of the week was much less busy than the first three days. I only had five classes the last two days of this week, compared with fifteen classes during the first three.
Thursday was a pretty mellow night, but Friday night Yasu and his mom came over for dinner after work. They arrived by train, which meant that there was no problem drinking a lot and having a good time.
We had fun catching up around a big bowl of nabe. They are really nice people to hang out with. I noticed that Yasu was speaking almost exclusively Japanese now – I think it has been a long time since he’s used English. We shared pictures – they had pictures of Yasu’s brother’s new baby, and we had pictures to show them of Europe. We watched a little bit of a movie to test out the big screen TV, too. Back when we left the teacher apartments, Yasu had given me a sake/sho-chu dispenser as a gift. Last week we brought it out for Antoine to use, and we also used it tonight. Yasu’s mom enjoyed the self-serve, drink all you want format.
They headed back around 11:30 or so, and Kuniko and I stayed up late to watch the rest of the movie. We finally went to bed late. Kuniko has to work both days this weekend – but I’m going to convert the house into cold weather mode. Bring out the kotatsu!
