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Looking at cherry blossom trees is kind of pointless without cherry blossom trees
I don't really feel comfortable with writing much about my school life in public entries for fear of someone finding it like it happened at GEOS. What I will say is that I taught three classes today and the kids are... crazy. Inevitably whenever they were told to ask me questions, every class wanted to ask "where do you live? how old are you? do you have a boyfriend? are you married?" and other personal questions, to which the Japanese teacher was like "you can't ask that, sorry" and they're like "well, we don't really CARE what her favorite food is, ok?"
A conversation that kinda happened in all three classes, as I was doing my introduction:
Me: "My hobby is watching baseball. I love the Nippon Ham Fighters."
Students (in Japanese): "Eeehhhhh? The Fighters???"
Me: "Yes, the Fighters. My favorite player is Hichori Morimoto."
Half the students: "Who the hell is that? Only Darvish is famous."
The other half, mostly boys: "Oh, Hichori huh? He's from Arakawa-ku also! That's cool."
One annoying thing: I've gained about 2 kilograms in the last week of working at the school, probably due to two factors: 1) changing my sleep schedule so drastically and 2) now I'm eating 3 meals a day instead of 1.5 or so. I eat something for breakfast at 7am, usually something very light, and then I have school lunch at 12:30pm, and then by 6-7pm I'm starving so I eat dinner. School lunch is quite good -- today it was dumpling soup and half-sandwiches, jelly and butter, plus fruit salad. Yesterday was curry rice. The day before was some weird but tasty fish. Considering it's like 300 yen per day it's a pretty good deal.
Anyway, after school today I came home and changed, and then went to meet up with my friend Kohei down in Kudanshita, after begging out due to tired and rain last weekend. We were supposed to go hanami-ing, except as it turns out, all the sakura disappeared in the last day or two. The good part is, it wasn't crowded. The bad part is, there wasn't any sakura to look at. Alas. We bought beers at the conbini (well, he got me a weird grape-hai or something) and walked through the park, eventually giving up on finding flowers and just sitting down to drink and look at the moon instead. Then we went to the Yasukuni Shrine, which WAS crowded, though it was mostly around the big food stand there -- apparently it was full of yatai last week, but no more. Waiting in long lines for crappy food wasn't our thing, so we went wandering.
After walking for a while, we stopped for some curry bread at a place claiming to have the best curry bread in the world (it wasn't bad but it wasn't the best), and then eventually, after ending up in the middle of Jimbocho, had dinnerish food at a Mexican restaurant called El Arbolito. I thought it was fairly decent, we had a lot of avocado-based stuff (including some fabulous guacamole that had raw tuna mixed in) and he had pork rinds and I had sangria and whatnot, and the music playing was Japanese salsa, and it was just like a hole-in-the-wall Mexican place in the US, kinda, except twice as expensive, much cleaner, and no Mexicans working there. But Kohei is super-picky about Mexican food since he actually lived in Mexico at one point, and even he thought it was pretty good.
And then we went home because it was past 10 and I was getting tired. Yet now it is past midnight and I am still awake. I guess I'm dumb that way. I'll crash fairly soon though and in the morning I get to go watch college baseball, at long last! I'm psyyyyched!
A conversation that kinda happened in all three classes, as I was doing my introduction:
Me: "My hobby is watching baseball. I love the Nippon Ham Fighters."
Students (in Japanese): "Eeehhhhh? The Fighters???"
Me: "Yes, the Fighters. My favorite player is Hichori Morimoto."
Half the students: "Who the hell is that? Only Darvish is famous."
The other half, mostly boys: "Oh, Hichori huh? He's from Arakawa-ku also! That's cool."
One annoying thing: I've gained about 2 kilograms in the last week of working at the school, probably due to two factors: 1) changing my sleep schedule so drastically and 2) now I'm eating 3 meals a day instead of 1.5 or so. I eat something for breakfast at 7am, usually something very light, and then I have school lunch at 12:30pm, and then by 6-7pm I'm starving so I eat dinner. School lunch is quite good -- today it was dumpling soup and half-sandwiches, jelly and butter, plus fruit salad. Yesterday was curry rice. The day before was some weird but tasty fish. Considering it's like 300 yen per day it's a pretty good deal.
Anyway, after school today I came home and changed, and then went to meet up with my friend Kohei down in Kudanshita, after begging out due to tired and rain last weekend. We were supposed to go hanami-ing, except as it turns out, all the sakura disappeared in the last day or two. The good part is, it wasn't crowded. The bad part is, there wasn't any sakura to look at. Alas. We bought beers at the conbini (well, he got me a weird grape-hai or something) and walked through the park, eventually giving up on finding flowers and just sitting down to drink and look at the moon instead. Then we went to the Yasukuni Shrine, which WAS crowded, though it was mostly around the big food stand there -- apparently it was full of yatai last week, but no more. Waiting in long lines for crappy food wasn't our thing, so we went wandering.
After walking for a while, we stopped for some curry bread at a place claiming to have the best curry bread in the world (it wasn't bad but it wasn't the best), and then eventually, after ending up in the middle of Jimbocho, had dinnerish food at a Mexican restaurant called El Arbolito. I thought it was fairly decent, we had a lot of avocado-based stuff (including some fabulous guacamole that had raw tuna mixed in) and he had pork rinds and I had sangria and whatnot, and the music playing was Japanese salsa, and it was just like a hole-in-the-wall Mexican place in the US, kinda, except twice as expensive, much cleaner, and no Mexicans working there. But Kohei is super-picky about Mexican food since he actually lived in Mexico at one point, and even he thought it was pretty good.
And then we went home because it was past 10 and I was getting tired. Yet now it is past midnight and I am still awake. I guess I'm dumb that way. I'll crash fairly soon though and in the morning I get to go watch college baseball, at long last! I'm psyyyyched!
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