For the last couple days hot winds have blown through Kobe, offering a preview of weather that normally would appear in July or August. High humidity, burning sunlight – it’s just like the middle of summer.
For us that means cranking up the air conditioners in both the living room and the bedroom. Since we both work all day our poor house traps the heat inside as a present for the first person who gets home. Once we get into summer officially I’ll set up the timers to automatically cool the place down before we get home and when we wake up, but for now they are on manual.
Tonight after work I’m joining some students for a dinner party at an Okinawan restaurant. The students are all from last term’s group lessons of new employees. They invited me out since we don’t really have a chance to meet that often. Last term I had them twice a week in class. I’m hoping they are able to relax and not be stressed about speaking English the whole time. My unofficial policy is to only speak English with my current students, but switch to Japanese if necessary with people that aren’t current students. It should be an interesting evening.
