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Good bye winter vacation
Back to work today. Whee. It was really a good thing I brought so much stuff in the night before, because my brain was jelly on the way to work in the morning. But, classes went okay. And people seemed to like the ankoro and ame and stuff I brought in from Kanazawa.
Also, it seems that I have now been working at GEOS for 5 months. YIKES. I was looking at the February calendar, saw "Sprint Unit 17", and said "Hey, that's the chapter we were on when I arrived here!" and realized the implications of that statement.
One of my old students who had quit and come back restarted today, so that was happy. Of course, he had left during my time where I was pretending I don't speak Japanese... so today in class we were talking about crime words and I asked about crime TV shows and movies, so we're talking about Furuhata Ninzaburo, and Odoru Daisousassen, and suddenly he's all like "WAIT A MINUTE, DO YOU SPEAK JAPANESE?" and I pause and sort of half-smile and I'm like "Er... of course I don't?"
Yeah, anyway, after work I had dinner with Oren, who is back in Tokyo. We went to Anrakutei and had yakiniku! Yaaaaay.
As insane as it sounds, I'm vaguely trying to figure out what it would take for me to go to CMU Spring Carnival this year. I'd probably take off a week, so it'd be like flying to Seattle on Sunday here (arriving Sunday there), fly to Pittsburgh that Wednesday or Thursday, fly back to Seattle on late Saturday or early Sunday, then fly back to Tokyo that Sunday afternoon (arriving Monday here), go back to work Tuesday. I guess the real downside is the $1400 or so in airfare I'd have to spend.
Also, it seems that I have now been working at GEOS for 5 months. YIKES. I was looking at the February calendar, saw "Sprint Unit 17", and said "Hey, that's the chapter we were on when I arrived here!" and realized the implications of that statement.
One of my old students who had quit and come back restarted today, so that was happy. Of course, he had left during my time where I was pretending I don't speak Japanese... so today in class we were talking about crime words and I asked about crime TV shows and movies, so we're talking about Furuhata Ninzaburo, and Odoru Daisousassen, and suddenly he's all like "WAIT A MINUTE, DO YOU SPEAK JAPANESE?" and I pause and sort of half-smile and I'm like "Er... of course I don't?"
Yeah, anyway, after work I had dinner with Oren, who is back in Tokyo. We went to Anrakutei and had yakiniku! Yaaaaay.
As insane as it sounds, I'm vaguely trying to figure out what it would take for me to go to CMU Spring Carnival this year. I'd probably take off a week, so it'd be like flying to Seattle on Sunday here (arriving Sunday there), fly to Pittsburgh that Wednesday or Thursday, fly back to Seattle on late Saturday or early Sunday, then fly back to Tokyo that Sunday afternoon (arriving Monday here), go back to work Tuesday. I guess the real downside is the $1400 or so in airfare I'd have to spend.
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What I kind of wonder is, can I get better deals from an actual Japanese travel agent? They don't like to put ticket prices online, though.