It was fairly warm at school Friday. The clouds have started to roll in, and it looks like we’ve got some rain in our future. We had a morning awards ceremony, and they used to opportunity to cajole the students into doing their best on the exams next week. The awards part of the ceremony went kind of long, and my next class was abbreviated to 20 minutes.
Other than that short class I had just one other class, and once that was wrapped up it was 12:30 and I was eating lunch with the weekend stretching out before me. Oh yeah…
After school I went over to Tsuji-san’s place and we talked in Japanese and English for about an hour. She gave me a birthday present (chocolates!) and a belated birthday card. It was fun to figure out what the card said – good reading practice.
Kuniko came home late because of the STEP test at her school, so we had a late night dinner of macaroni and cheese, with a Chinese salad that I had picked up at Ito Yokado.
The rain started coming down this evening and it rained right on through the night. Kuniko and I kind of slept in a little longer than we should have, and Kuniko had to dash out of here to catch her train.
I’ve just been doing chores around the house, watching Japanese language videos, and wishing the laundry would dry in this rainy weather. I went over to Ito Yokado to look at some new undershirts. I found some on sale that were still pretty expensive. I wasn’t sure about the size, so I asked one of the clerks to help me out.
While I was talking to her I had a little out of body experience and I couldn’t believe that I was piecing these words together – making a full, complete sentence. Unbelievable! I’m speaking Japanese! What a cool feeling – all that hard work is starting to pay off.
I’m not sure what the plan is tonight but we have to go return the movies from last week, and we’ve been having a craving for gyoza from Oshou. We might stop in there and bring some back. I could go for a cold beer, too.
Tomorrow we’re heading into Osaka, hopefully without getting rained on, for a concert by Takarabune, the acapella group that Kuniko’s friends are members of. We’ll try to do a little shopping while we’re there – we need a few things for the kitchen…
