Towards the end of last week I seemed to have a lot of attention starved students doing everything they could to disrupt the class and get people to either laugh or groan in their general direction.
Thursday was the worst – I had a student stand up on the desk and whip his shorts down so he could show everyone his little pecker. Thanks, man. After I got everything back under control I felt like I had somehow gone through a rite of passage. After classroom nudity things can only get better (or wierder?)
Friday night Kuniko and I went out to dinner in our continuing quest for a new restaurant to replace the now-defunct Graciani’s as our favorite. Tonight we tried a French restaurant south of Motomachi called “Nude Diner”. The dinner was really good, all the food tasted great, but the atmosphere was a little funkier than we would have liked.
After dinner we walked around Sannomiya. We actually bumped into an old college friend of Kuniko’s, and we had a cocktail at a restaurant that featured a big wine list with lots of California wines (they even had Ravenswood!). I had a glass of zinfandel port from Paso Robles, and Kuniko had a lychee drink that was pretty tasty.
Saturday I met up with Inoguchi sensei for dinner in Motomachi. We had originally planned on meeting for Chinese food, but since the restaurant was seriously expensive ($100/person) we decided to bag on that idea and went to a yakitori instead. Inoguchi sensei is still unemployed and not really looking for work. We had fun talking and we slipped back and forth between English and Japanese the whole night. I’m hoping we can meet up again in the future – maybe we can invite him and his wife over for dinner one night.
Sunday has been pretty mellow – just a little shopping and relaxing at home. It seems like it is our only real chance to rest up for the week. Kuniko is starting a 21 day in a row work schedule beginning on Monday. Yuck.
