It was back to work on Monday, and my classes were spread out throughout the whole day. The good news was that my voice was much better, and I celebrated by belting out my English during the classes.
The bad news was that apparently I had spread my disease to some other teachers. Two others were losing their voices, and it was pretty clear who they got it from. I tiptoed around them, but I think they were a little mad at me. That’s what I get for fighting through illness and coming to work – angry infected coworkers.
I was talking with another teacher, Kuroda sensei, and she told me that they had some problems with the captain of the table tennis club. During a match he apparently was laughing at a boy who had lost – I’m not sure which school he was from. The other table tennis club teacher scolded him for doing that, and the captain was pretty upset with the teacher afterwards. He decided to boycott the club for a while, and even though the right thing to do was to apologize to the teacher and the boy he laughed at, he wasn’t able to see that. He was only able to be mad at the teacher that scolded him. There is a little bit of ego at stake here – the boy is the champion table tennis player in the whole prefecture, so he thinks he’s a little above everyone else. I think this will end up being a good lesson for him.
Yasu got in touch today and let me know that he had bought some take home ramen from a really good ramen restaurant, and he wanted to give us some. He stopped by in the evening and gave us some raw ramen noodles and a kit so that we could make it ourselves. We had already eaten our dinner so we couldn’t have it tonight, but we’ll definitely get to it tomorrow.
After Yasu left we took a drive over to Futami to return some movies that Kuniko had rented for her school and to hit Ito Yokado for a little shopping down memory lane. We scored some really cheap (I think they mispriced it) roast beef, and some other goodies for the week ahead. After that we came home and hit the rack early. Kuniko is pretty tired out from working so many consecutive days, so we want to get all the rest we can.
