Tuesday was a very hot, very humid day. It was a good reminder of the upcoming Japanese summer. I was sweating like crazy, and although this usually has pretty good weight loss benefits it doesn’t look so great when you are walking around town. It doesn’t feel so great, either.
To beat the heat I stayed inside during the day and then brought a hand towel along to mop up the sweat during the walk to work. Once I arrived there I fired up Nozaki sensei’s air conditioner and was chilling at a nice 25 degrees for the afternoon.
The air conditioner is absolutely mission critical for my classes, especially the younger students’ lessons when me march around, jump up and down, and sing songs. Today’s first class was with the youngest students.
For the first time Kento (the only boy in the class) decided to do the class without his family members hanging around in the hallway. I was glad to hear it, and I was glad that the family can get on with their lives for at least an hour. Kento arrived almost 20 minutes early, so that gave me time to play games with him and get him comfortable. He’s a really quiet kid and seems overwhelmed with being outside his home. He played games with me but the only real reaction I got out of him verbally was when I said “Ay-yi-yi” for some reason. He thought that was the funniest thing he’d ever heard me say.
The other classes went swimmingly. I really like the older students on Tuesdays because after the young kids they seem the most mature people in the world to me. Today was also the only Tuesday of the month when I don’t have a junior high school class. I went home and beat Kuniko back by about two hours. I made up some risotto from a package and served it up with a loaf of garlic bread and some prosciutto with grated Parmesan cheese and parsley. It wasn’t bad.
At home it’s really hot – we had the air conditioners running tonight and maybe that will be a regular thing for a while. Summer is really here, I guess.
