Whew. (wiping sweat from my forehead)

I’m out of work before 11pm for the first time this week. It has been one looooooong and busy week. The old teacher’s last day was YESTERDAY. I’m teaching ALL his classes from now on. They really throw you into the fire, I’m learning.

But, except for the fact that I’ve been working my ass off, it’s FUN! It really is rewarding to see students get the lesson I’m teaching, and learn some new words or phrases. The other teachers at my school are pretty cool. There are two other foreign teachers; Rebecca and Shawn. Rebecca is nice, eh? And Canadian? And Shawn’s is leaving in a month, so he’s got “senioritis”, and it shows. But it’s cool, they’re both at least friendly. And the Japanese teachers are also really nice. I’m just trying to remember everyone’s name. It seems like everyone has the same damn name here; Yuki, , or Shuji, or Akemi, or Izumi, or Nozomi, or Forgetme!

But I’m speaking mad Japanese, and that’s helping the transition too. So teaching is going well, and I move into my apartment on Saturday night. And hopefully soon after that I’ll have a real internet connection and won’t have to bother with this net cafe nonsense, which is closing NOW.