Another day at shougakkou

K, so my post every Wednesday is always the same. "Today is Wednesday, which means shougakkou! We have an ALT dinner party tonight!" And yep, that's the same thing as this week, hehe. As always, I dreaded coming to school today, as I haven't been sleeping enough the last two nights, but it has turned out to be a good day, as it always does at shougakkou. The kids are always so happy to see me that it's impossible to be in a bad mood here. I can't imagine doing it every day, but once a week is really fun.

There is a family that lived in Oregon living somewhere in Yabuzuka, and their two kids (well, there might be more, I dunno) go to Yabushou....I met the younger brother two weeks ago, and he was really young when he was in Oregon, so he can speak English way better than most shougakkou kids, but not great. However, I met the older sister today (she is a 6nensei) and she is fucking awesome at English. She has the American accent and everything! So that was both strange and cool to hear in the classroom. Plus, what are the odds of Oregon people being in Yabuzuka???

Today I have five classes, all of which are self-introduction, followed by fruits and vegetables. I calculated (yes, I was bored), and realized that by the end of next month, I will have done my self-intro about 70 times. Um, that is crazy. And I will have done fruits and vegetables about 40 times. Um, that is also crazy. Needless to say, I know my fruits and vegetables in English by now. It is kind of a pointless lesson, as half of the words in Japanese are Engrish anyway, so they already know orenji, banana, appuru, sutoroberii, etc. So, I trick them by throwing random-ass vegetables in there, muahahaha.

Tonight the weekly dinner is at Pete's, which will be fun. This damn cold is sucking all of my energy out of me, but I refuse to be anti-social!

Um, could Cindy and I please get a round of applause for choosing to go hiking on Saturday? How productive and exercise-y are we? I think we are secretly just doing it so we can eat as much as we want this weekend and be like "oh, I went hiking, its okay if I eat that third bowl of ice cream!" Hee hee, you know us and our motives...

Anyway, the Totoro theme song is playing, which means class should be starting soon. That is the coolest way to start class in the world, I fucking love that song. I could wake up to that every morning and not curse my keitai like I do with whatever damn alarm song I have it on right now. Tonari no Totoro, Totoro.......