So Saturday went a lot better than expected. i was a massive stress case in the morning, i came to work an hour early to get ready for my class from hell and the crier, lukily my first class ( an 8 year old boy who i love and is so much fun) cancelled, which was lucky because it gave me more time to build up, not only my confidence and stamina, but the best damn lessons ever planned in the history of lesson planning.
The first class was the children of the damned. Their parents were, like i said earlier, in the room watching, so that just added on to the stress of these kids being the weirdest group of 4 year olds ever grouped together to learn anything, let alone a foreign language. anyways, they were completely quiet and shy in front of their parents which was a godsend. i mean, usually they are being completely shy because they a) are being stubborn and like to try to make me angry by smiling and pressing their lips together and refusing to say the vocabulary, or b) yelling out, who the hell knows what in japanese and throwing my vocab cards all over the room. this time they were just blushing and smiling and not saying anything… it was almost… dare i say…. cute. they said as much as they could when they got up enough guts to speak in front of their parents, they partook in the activities, and straight up tried their best, without embarassing themselves by singing any of the millions of songs we are supposed to sing, leaving me clapping and singing alone in front of a room full of staring 4 year olds and their parents…. regardless, it was painless, and kind of funny, and i think the parents saw the humour in it, so, checkmark, done, one pain-in-the-ass done for the day with little to no real damage (other than to my dignity).
Next was the crier. She came in hugging her moms legs and pouting already. as soon as she walked in the door, so i knew i was about to embark upon the best 45 minutes of my life. lukily my manager came and joined the class, the little girl knows my manager so she felt comfortable leaving her mom (so that she could take her own baby class) and staying with me and my manager. So we begun the class and she was awesome! she took part in all the activities, said as much as she could (shes 2 years old) smiled, laughed, sang, gave me high fives and had fun! my manager left for the last 20 minutes of the class, and she was totally fine alone with me and we completed the lesson! it was great!
The rest of my day was completely smooth sailing, so really, I suppose saturdays arent so bad! I spent saturday night watching sex and the city and went to bed at like 11pm. Yesterday i woke up stupidly early, as i wrote in my previous entry, but i was able to get back to bed for a bit, woke up, got all cute and rode the half hour bike ride to the mall. Sat in starbucks for a bit, drinking a nonfat gingerbread latte and treated myself to the little christmas cake thing they had as a reward for a good week and read White Oleander. Walked around the mall for a bit scoping out winter coats as its cold as all hell and i massively need a winter coat stat, and then went back to starbucks for a venti coffee and some more reading. Afterwards i did a little bit of groceries, grabbed some movies and went back to my apartment to make dinner, watch sidewalks of new york and a couple of glasses of cheap california red. It was a good night.
In other news my eye twitch is reeeeaally starting to bother me. Yesterday it got so bad that it was actually affecting my sight. Im wondering if it has anything to do with caffeine. So today im going to try to not drink anything caffinated (i had a cup of warm soymilk with my toast for breakfast), and i slept pretty decently last night. its still twitching a bit right now, but not half as much as it was last night. It seems to get worse as the day goes on, probably as i get more and more tired, but its really irritating. if its still happening tomorrow im going to get my manager to take me to the doctors, because seriously, this has been going on for three weeks now, im over it. give me some eye drops or something.
Right now im just doing some laundry, going to start showering and getting ready soon, have to run to the bank and then pay my water bill. Then im going out for lunch with a new Japanese friend. She’s a hairdresser, and the teacher before me, Arden, introduced me to her before she left. We havent hung out yet, so this is our first time hanging out just the two of us. Her english really isnt very good, so im a little nervous for how this will go, seeing as she speaks very little english and i speak pretty much zero japanese, but she is very sweet and there is nothing wrong with new friends. and im going to ask her if she does hair extensions. haha.
This week is only a four day week, friday is a holiday, which is awesome. it would be more awesome if saturday was a holiday so we could have a long weekend instead of going to work for three days, having a day off, then going back for one day, which is completely ridiculous if you ask me, but whatever, no complaints. 4 days are better than 5.
Hopefully hanging out with Yui thursday night and she wants me to go to a birthday party with her next weekend which will probably be AWESOME. seriously, japanese friends in japan are sooo much cooler than non-japanese friends in japan (aside from the obvious: lindzy, kanika, justin etc.) Justin called me a couple days ago, it was awesome to talk to him. him and i are going to have a crazy osaka weekend in the new year. i cant believe we havent hung out once since weve been here. damn you japanese travel and being so expensive, and my weekends being sunday monday which is the most retarded thing everrrr.
debating going back to starbucks after lunch for more reading, or just hanging back at my apt…. hrm, will see how i feel after. ok thats enough for now.
miss/love you all. xoxoxo
