Shukugawa Park

[Fater: "Baguette. Huuuh huuuuuh, baguette!"]

This morning I met with Lindsay, one of her students (who's name escapes me, which is a shame, she is SO SWEET!), and Jennifer. Jennifer is a foreign teacher from Florida who works in (somewhere else), but it's close to Sannomiya (where I am). She's super nice, reminds me of Kathleen Vaughn! She's been in Japan for almost 3 months, and we're going to eat dinner together in Sannomiya tonight.

We met at the train station, took the JR out to Shukugawa and had a potluck picnic. The weather was uncooperative, it was windy and chilly. As soon as we left the sun came out (go figure). It was nice to meet lots of Lindsay's friends! I met Janet, who's from Scotland and is also a teacher.

After lunch, a few of us went back to Sannomiya and went to DonKi, which is (pardon the language) a cluster-fucked Wal-Mart. It's so random. But I bought some coffee, non-green tea, and seasame crackers (they're sort of sweet).

I'm in the process of procuring Photoshop right now, so hopefully soon I will have photos up!

I turned on the TV, and there's SUMO WRESTLING! It's so amusing! I have no idea what the hell is going on though. Fat guys hugging.

Another one of the teachers in my training class finally moved into his apartment and got the internet. We were on Skype, and I think a few of us are going to try to meet up tomorrow after work for dinner or something. It will be nice to see everyone again and hear how their week went.

Last night, on the train home, one of the teachers was asking all these questions. She said, "I don't want to be rude, but I want to ask a question, and I don't know if it's rude or not." hahah How Japanese! She just asked how old I was, which I suppose was fine to ask, I don't really know the rules about that. But I assured her that since we'll be working closely together for the next year, it was a fine question to ask. She's the only staff member younger than me (she's 23). When I told her I was 24, she looked shocked. Apparently, they all thought I was 19 or 20. Sounds good to me, I guess....

I told her about the robe in the hotel, and how I think it looks like a raggedy komono. They laughed SO HARD. So I promised I'd take a photo, and share with them. That will be posted shortly.

Tomorrow I teach three classes, one at 10am, one at 11am, and the last at 6pm. What a break. Wish me luck!!!!!