Monday, December 19, 2005
I live in the refrigerator and put my food in the house.
I’m still too intoxicated to be teaching high school students English, but… ah well.
All kinds of skeletons came out of the closet at yesterday’s enkai, but that’s one of the reasons I love them, getting to talk about all the taboo topics. In attendance were all the karate guys (Twenty-one men aged 24 to 60+), Nagae-san (the other woman) and me. The topic of Koichiro and I came up YET AGAIN but now I think everyone’s pretty clear that whatever happened there ended a long time ago. I kept calling out れきし、れきし (which means history) and Use-sensei taught me a new word, かこ, which means past.
Danger! I left my kerosene heater on while I was at the party. I had just a tiny bit of kerosene last night before I left and I thought I had turned it off already, but when I came home it was still on. That’s really あぶない。
This morning Hatake and Sasaki are pretty concerned about me. Hatake offered to cancel my classes (He’s so sweet!) and GET THIS—Sasaki asked if I wanted to go to the nurses’ room (i.e. sleep for an hour) during first period. I was basically shocked that she would be so kind to me but surprises are around every corner, ね？
I’ve been writing a lot of Japanese to Yasu recently so I just want to use it all the time. I’m sorry for those of you who don’t understand; I’ll try to include more translations. I just love bi-lingualism (and making up my own words).
I leave my food out in the kitchen. Food that should be kept cold sits on the stove top or the counters. I figure, it’s silly to waste energy putting things in the fridge when it’s cold enough in the house 24 hours a day.
Hatake and I had a great talk yesterday while walking home from Narao. I told them (+Koichiro) that we didn’t need a taxi, it was a short walk home, but really I just wanted to increase the time I got to talk to him. As if I wasn’t having enough trouble deciding already, Hatake recommended I stay here another year. As you know, I’ve pretty much, probably made up my mind to go to Boston next year, maybe, but I’ll straddle the fence until the last possible moment, I can tell. I think I’m just in denial about leaving my wonderful life here, but deep down I want to move on and start a new, wonderful life somewhere else. どうしお〜
Hatake also said he’s so relieved that Sasaki and I are getting along recently. We’ve really been doing well for about two weeks。I even invited her to come to my Tacos Party—whenever I get around to having it. I wondered out loud what had changed between us and Hatake said he thought the first two semesters Sasaki was simply too overwhelmed and too stressed out to be concerned about me. He said all the problems weren’t just her fault, but now we’re both trying so hard and it really shows.
I have another enkai tonight. I'm not drinking!
All kinds of skeletons came out of the closet at yesterday’s enkai, but that’s one of the reasons I love them, getting to talk about all the taboo topics. In attendance were all the karate guys (Twenty-one men aged 24 to 60+), Nagae-san (the other woman) and me. The topic of Koichiro and I came up YET AGAIN but now I think everyone’s pretty clear that whatever happened there ended a long time ago. I kept calling out れきし、れきし (which means history) and Use-sensei taught me a new word, かこ, which means past.
Danger! I left my kerosene heater on while I was at the party. I had just a tiny bit of kerosene last night before I left and I thought I had turned it off already, but when I came home it was still on. That’s really あぶない。
This morning Hatake and Sasaki are pretty concerned about me. Hatake offered to cancel my classes (He’s so sweet!) and GET THIS—Sasaki asked if I wanted to go to the nurses’ room (i.e. sleep for an hour) during first period. I was basically shocked that she would be so kind to me but surprises are around every corner, ね？
I’ve been writing a lot of Japanese to Yasu recently so I just want to use it all the time. I’m sorry for those of you who don’t understand; I’ll try to include more translations. I just love bi-lingualism (and making up my own words).
I leave my food out in the kitchen. Food that should be kept cold sits on the stove top or the counters. I figure, it’s silly to waste energy putting things in the fridge when it’s cold enough in the house 24 hours a day.
Hatake and I had a great talk yesterday while walking home from Narao. I told them (+Koichiro) that we didn’t need a taxi, it was a short walk home, but really I just wanted to increase the time I got to talk to him. As if I wasn’t having enough trouble deciding already, Hatake recommended I stay here another year. As you know, I’ve pretty much, probably made up my mind to go to Boston next year, maybe, but I’ll straddle the fence until the last possible moment, I can tell. I think I’m just in denial about leaving my wonderful life here, but deep down I want to move on and start a new, wonderful life somewhere else. どうしお〜
Hatake also said he’s so relieved that Sasaki and I are getting along recently. We’ve really been doing well for about two weeks。I even invited her to come to my Tacos Party—whenever I get around to having it. I wondered out loud what had changed between us and Hatake said he thought the first two semesters Sasaki was simply too overwhelmed and too stressed out to be concerned about me. He said all the problems weren’t just her fault, but now we’re both trying so hard and it really shows.
I have another enkai tonight. I'm not drinking!
