No classes today! We’re in the weird period where there are some classes, just four a day, but they don’t really count. I spent most of the day studying, memorizing words like “\u00e6\u00b0\u2018\u00e9\u2013\u201c\u00e4\u00bc\u009d\u00e6\u2030\u00bf” (folklore), and “\u00e4\u00ba\u00ba\u00e8\u00b3\u00aa” (hostage). My tests are all graded and everything is done for me for last term. <\/p>\n
Mr. Komori dropped by today, like us he had only morning classes, so he was free in the afternoon. I chatted with him a little while, and he looked like he was enjoying life. Kuniko sent me a message in the early afternoon and she got to leave home early, too. I figured I’d study until around 3:30, and then sneak out myself. <\/p>\n
I did a little shopping for this week at Ito Yokado – I bought some bacon, some cheese, some octopus, and some shaved ice for dessert. For dinner tonight I made some traditional octopus balls (takoyaki), and then some non-traditional ones with cheese and bacon instead of octopus. They both turned out OK, although I’m a little out of practice flipping them on the special stove that Kuniko gave me. I ended up putting lots of hot sauce all over the cheese and bacon ones – yum.<\/p>\n
While I was cooking dinner my cell phone rang, and it was the principal of my school. It was a strange conversation because my principal can’t speak any English at all, and so he pushes forward in Japanese, and he talks fast. At first I thought he was asking where I disappeared to this afternoon, but it turns out that the board of education was looking for me to find out if I can work sometime in August. This is the phone call that I’ve secretly been dreading – the request to work at Yashiro. <\/p>\n
When I first arrived here two years ago we had to attend a mandatory three day session at Yashiro, and it was a boring orientation punctuated with drunken partying, and sleeping in dorm rooms with six other people, no private baths, and bad cafeteria food. At the time I remembered thinking, at least I don’t have to work this thing and clean up the puke afterwards. Guess what…<\/p>\n
I told the principal that I’d call them tomorrow and let them know if I’m free. The principal seemed happy enough with that, but I wonder if he spent the hour from four to five p.m. today walking around the halls looking for me. No problem – I’m not worried. Really… I’m not. Well, maybe a little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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