It’s the start of a five day week. It’s been a while for me, so I reluctantly walked out the door and out into the increasingly cool weather. It’s nice to not be covered with sweat as soon as you leave your bedroom.
Only one class today, and I managed to screw it up pretty good. I’m doing a pretty new lesson on complaining. It’s pretty tough, and the class today is pretty quiet to begin with. The are pretty shy, I guess. We went through the beginning of the lesson, and my class was just sitting there looking at me blankly. This happens sometimes, but it has never been this quiet. The teacher, Mr. Yamamoto (not the guy from the concert, this is the other one), sat quietly reading the lesson notes that he probably should have read before the class. I hinted to him strongly that maybe we needed a little Japanese injection, and he wasn’t getting the hint.
I’ve got two or three top notch students in this class, and they hung in there with me through the lesson. I really appreciated the student’s patience. They must have been wondering why the lesson sucked so bad. Also, the students were in the last class of the day after a three day weekend, so I think they were not so interested anyway.
The history teacher was walking around with a missing front tooth. I guess he was eating some noodles and his tooth fell out. It’s going to cost him around $1000 to get it fixed at the dentist. This is the second tooth that has just fallen out. It sounds like he’s got some serious dental issues. It was hard not to look at the big gap in his teeth every time he laughed.
He was happy because he made some dating progress. I’m not sure if I would call it progress, but for him, it’s a start. He told me he asked one of the employees at the dental office out to dinner. I was surprised that he was so brave. I asked some questions and found out that he is taking out the entire staff of the dental office – the dentist and five assistants. He’s buying everyone dinner, and he’s hoping to get at least one phone number out of it. Seems like an expensive fishing trip to me.
Kuniko got home early tonight and we had a dinner of “chukan moyashi”, which is just like cold chinese noodles except we switched the noodles with bean sprouts. Kuniko made a special sauce and we cut up vegetables, egg, and ham, and placed that on top. It turned out pretty good – a healthy dinner for us. Afterwards we did a little bit of shopping at Ito Yokado, and then came back for some hot cocoa.
Kuniko also filled out a census form tonight. The government is holding a census, and so she filled out my part for me. We also started to look at some music to play during the reception. They gave us a list of music to choose from, but they said we could bring in anything we wanted. Any recommendations for good background music at a wedding reception lunch? Kuniko and I have a favorite song – but the lyrics are a little over the top for a wedding. Still, we may find a way to play it.
I’m tired and it’s cool enough that I’ll be able to sleep straight through the night. Tomorrow I’ll have another go at that class and see if I can make it a bit more successful.
