Well I’ve finally arrived in Takefu! I took a train ride from Nagoya on Thursday morning (a 2 hour trip!) and got here just before noon, and the first thing I noticed is that the weather is just so much better here! It’s still hot, but it’s a lot more like home, rather than Nagoya [...]
Tonight we finished our last day of training! Woohoo!!!
Afterwards, we all went back to my kushikatsu place for drinks and dinner, and had a great time. The old man from the other day recognized me, and we started up another conversation, and after I told him that we were having our “Sayonara Party,” we ended [...]
Uuuaah….. today we did children’s lessons. We only did 2, but I am so exhausted. I even got enough sleep, so I can’t blame it on that. They’re just so tiring! Looking at my schedule, I have to do 7 kids classes every Saturday! O_O They’re really fun, but just so, so, so wearing.
Tomorrow is [...]
I guess it’s my own fault for not taking a nap yesterday afternoon, but I am really wiped out today! We started our kids training today, and it’s pretty tiring. Tons of singing, tons of jumping and running. It’s actually really fun — partially because we have a huge silly group of people — but [...]
I haven’t written in a couple of days because I’ve been really busy. I wrote about my first lesson with real students… well, the next day I had to teach another lesson to my classmates. It was super hard, since I had to prepare everything from scratch (I was the lucky one in the class [...]
Today was so awesome. Class was really fun, as we got to teach our first lessons to real Japanese students. We were all really nervous, but the students were so much fun, very eager to learn, and after getting into the lessons, everything went pretty comfortably. We have more lessons to do tomorrow and the [...]
So it turns out the next disaster was a radiation leak at a nuclear power plant that took place after a fire caused by the earthquake! Seriously, all that’s left is for Godzilla to come by and flatten Japan.
Today was fun, but very tiring. Work ended at around 9:30 pm, and by then most of [...]