It was a very sleepy Monday morning, and so we got a late start to the train station. I arrived with plenty of time to spare, however, and settled in to work on the leftover vocabulary that I didn\u2019t get to on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The history teacher dropped by and gave me a present. This was a present of appreciation for helping him with the desktop publishing problem he had on Thursday. It also is a little bit of a guilt alleviation device for him; he knows that he takes up a lot of my time everyday, and this is a way for him to feel better about it. A year or so ago he took me out to dinner to show his appreciation, but I\u2019ve avoided his invitations since then since he wants to use me as a wingman to help get one of the part time teachers at our school. <\/p>\n
As for the present, it was a cocktail glass – handmade, Italian, probably way too expensive. Only one, but I guess I can have a scotch or a tequila in there sometime. Weird.<\/p>\n
The teachers this morning were very busy with various exam announcements and getting the students through several different meetings and ceremonies. We didn\u2019t have the big closing ceremony today, however – I guess that will happen later in the week. <\/p>\n
The students were gone by 1 p.m., so the afternoon was a good chance for everyone to catch their breath. I sent a letter off to the California DMV to try to get a copy of my driving record. I\u2019m not sure if they\u2019ll send it to me all the way in Japan, but I need it to prove that I\u2019ve had a valid license for more than three months before I came to Japan. Normally I could use my CA driver\u2019s license as proof, but in a turn of bad luck I had it renewed just a month before I left, so the issue date is too recent to be valid. <\/p>\n
The rest of the afternoon was pretty mellow – just studying at my desk and enjoying the peace and quiet.<\/p>\n
Later on that night I headed over to Denya to have drinks and conversation with Atsushi-san. It has been a very long time since we\u2019ve met up. We caught up on each other’s lives and ordered lots of delicious yakitori foods from the master. I got to spend some time talking with the master and it sounds like he is doing a fair amount of English study. He’s also busy taking a seminar about selling insurance. I think the master is always looking for ways to supplement his income from the restaurant – maybe he’ll end up selling insurance to people with their yakitori sticks.<\/p>\n
At one point a group of three guys invited me over because they wanted to speak English with me. I indulged them for a while, enough for the guy to impress his coworkers. He invited me over by saying, “Will you enjoy me?” He said it twice before I realized he was trying to say “Will you join me?” I hung out with them for just a little while, until the conversation headed towards the length of schoolgirl’s skirts. Then I excused myself and headed back to hang with Atsushi-san.<\/p>\n
When I got home Kuniko had just arrived, and it sounded like her dinner\/drinking party was a success. I was glad to hear it. Tomorrow is a day off for a holiday, so we’ll get another chance to sleep late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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