The temperatures are sliding up into the “quite warm” zone, and my walk to work every day seems to get slightly sweatier each time. Luckily for the first time in my teaching career I’m teaching in an air conditioned classroom. I just turn on the AC when I get in to work, and then it’s pretty comfortable the rest of the day.
Work has been going pretty well. The overall behavior of my “problem classes” has improved quite a bit, but there are still one or two students that haven’t gotten the message. I’m going to have to speak with them in the next few weeks and I think we can get them on board.
Yesterday on the way to work I bumped into two of my ex-students from Takasago Minami. I’m always surprised to see them because they look completely different. Yesterday it was two girls that graduated just as I was leaving the school. They were really surprised to see me, and I stood around and chatted with them a little bit. It’s really amazing how many of my students ended up going to the college down the road from Nozaki sensei’s house.
I had a junior high school lesson last night, and we had a new student enter the class. That makes it six students in that class which is a lot. My junior high school lessons are really fun and everyone is pretty comfortable with the environment, so it is no big deal. And it means a little more money for me every month.
Kuniko had some Chinese food that she made for dinner ready to go when I got home, so we had some cold beers and ate Chinese and watched some TV. She had another tough day at work, so we talked about that for a while, and then finally went to bed late.
I got the call from Kuniko’s dad, and so this coming Sunday I’ll take the train to Hoden station and then join them planting the rice seedlings that we prepared last month. That means lots of sunscreen and some serious time out in the sun, but it’ll be fun.
