Monday was pretty exhausting. First I couldn’t sleep very well Sunday night – I kept waking up scratching itches all over my body. Couldn’t find any bugs, though. I wonder what it was?
Then I was able to get just about an hour of work on my paper before I had to leave early for work. It was the first day of our new textbooks, so there was a lot of support work that I had to do behind the scenes to prepare. After three classes I walked over to Yuka’s house and did a one hour lesson there, and finally came home.
During Yuka’s lesson we talked about her stay at her school’s English camp. They had an all-English rule, so if somebody spoke Japanese a teacher would punch a card with their name on it. People with lots of punches on their card were responsible for cleaning the bathrooms at the end of camp. That’s some serious punishment.
Kuniko had a delicious dinner waiting for me when I got home, and then we did a little bit of shopping over at Jusco before coming home and going to bed. It wasn’t really a wild night – we were both tired from a busy day. The rest of the week should gradually get easier for both of us, and hopefully we can coast into the weekend with some energy to spare.
