Monday morning, and according to my schedule I have one class for the day – and it’s during sixth period. That means that I had all day to do whatever I wanted. I spent the time planning my next first year lesson. The lesson will be on music, and I’m trying to think up ways to make each class different while still teaching some English in there.
The history made frequent trips across the room to talk to me. Over the last few weeks he’s said that he wants to spend 15 minutes a day talking with me. Today we probably talked about two hours. I usually enjoy our talks, but his timing wasn’t that great today. I hate to be impolite – so I’m going to have to figure out a way to get our talk time down a bit. He enjoys saying something in rapid fire Japanese, and then asking me if I understood. Usually he uses Kansai-ben (the local dialect) or he uses a Chinese expression that has been adapted to be used in Japan. Either way, I’m usually lost.
I’m experimenting with a new diet – instead of ordering salty or fried food in the cafeteria, I’m just ordering rice and soup. The soup is a clear broth with a little salt, and the rice is very filling. It only costs a dollar for a meal, as opposed to the three dollars I would normally spend on something else. It’s also a lot healthier for me. I’m going to try it for three weeks and see how it goes. The dinner diet remains the same. This morning I weighed myself and I weigh 187 pounds. On October 20th I weighed 192 pounds, so I haven’t really changed in three months. The wildcards here are all the alcohol I consume and all the exercises I do every night. I do a lot less hiking than normal, but I am walking all over the place every day. I guess the important thing is that I’m paying attention – we’ll see what happens.
