Wow, long time no post! It has been nearly a week. What have I been up to?<\/p>\n
I’ve been cranking through the work week, and having generally pretty good luck with keeping my students in line. On my way to work I usually bump into an ex-student or two, so even the walk to work can be really interesting. This week I have two junior high school classes, but they’ll be done after tonight, so I can relax a little bit.<\/p>\n
Saturday morning Kuniko had to go to work, but it turned out she forgot something at home. She called me and asked me to gather it up and come to Kobe to deliver it. I headed into Kobe in a storm, but by the time I got there it was clearing up.<\/p>\n
I walked up the hill to the school, but my timing wasn’t so hot and I had to walk by lots and lots of Kuniko’s students. Nothing like visiting a private girl’s high school in Japan to get the giggles going. Some of the students recognized me and said hello, and if you imagine what a Beatles concert was like with all the screaming you might get an idea of what it was like. <\/p>\n
Luckily I found Kuniko outside the gates talking with some of the students from her class, and so I delivered the goods and chatted with them for a while. Kuniko said that she could drive home soon, so I decided to kill the time in Kobe until she was ready. I ate lunch at Taro ramen (free kimchee!), and then had a big black sesame soy latte at Captain Terry’s Coffee Stadium. There are a lot of interesting ways to kill time in Kobe.<\/p>\n
Sunday Kuniko had to work again and I took the train to Hoden station and then walked to Kuniko’s parents’ place. I caught a ride with Kuniko’s mom to the family rice paddies, and then spent the day with them planting rice. <\/p>\n
It was a beautiful day, and the biggest concern was if I was wearing enough sunscreen. The work isn’t really too tough considering they have a riding rice planter, so we just helped load it up with rice seedlings whenever he drove nearby. Just as we were finishing up in the afternoon a storm appeared on the horizon and quickly threatened the planting operation. We packed things up and got back to the garage just in time. It rained hard, complete with lightning and thunder, and at one point it even hailed. Weird to get hail in summer.<\/p>\n
We cleaned up while the storm passed, and then picked up some fresh veggies from the garden for dinner. Back at the homestead I worked on getting their computer up to speed on the internet, and I think they are set up pretty well now. Kuniko came by in the evening, and we all had dinner and dessert before Kuniko and I headed back to get our tired butts in bed.<\/p>\n
That’s the update. I’ll try to post a little more regularly this week and onward…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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