As I’m usually doing something fun on Friday night or just tired out from the weekend, I usually wait until a lazy Saturday morning to update the site. As a result, I probably tend to forget all the juicy details from the previous day. I’m sitting here right now and I can’t remember much of Friday at all.
I had three classes, and one new lesson. The new lesson is on shopping, and it’s almost a mirror image of the previous lesson, except with a new activity (students take dictation). The new lesson went pretty smoothly, despite a few unexpected things happening. Mr. Yamamoto insisted on pairing up a boy with a girl for one activity, and that was a big surprise. The class looked around at each other and the boy and the girl were acting like somebody had just made them get married.
They were quiet and did everything but work together. They intently stared at opposite corners of the room, and carefully avoided eye contact with each other of the other students.
I left work an hour early just to try to slowly burn some of my time off. It turns out that I’ll probably wrap up my contract at the end of next year with way too many paid holidays. I’d like to use it up, if possible.
Since I was going home a bit earlier than usual I shared a train car with a bunch of my students, who were quiet and well behaved since I was there. I chatted in English with one of my first year students who got to go to Australia this year. She was happy for the opportunity to speak some English with a native speaker. Other passengers watched us carefully (and perhaps, suspiciously).
I cooked up Mexican style lime marinated chicken breasts, some mexican rice, and served them with a flour tortilla and some chips and guacamole dip that Yuri had found a while back in Carrefour. The dip was so-so, but everything else turned out OK. Kuniko was tired from her long day at work, but we managed to stay up past midnight talking about the wedding, our days, watching a goofy TV show, and just relaxing. She has to go into work tomorrow, so it’s like a Thursday night for her, and it an authentic Friday night for me.
