The Morning After & Good News

Monday, September 10, 2007

Woke up to my alarm at 7am, pressed snooze so many times and slept until 7:40am. I rushed like a mad woman to get ready, eat and be out of the house for my normal time. I got to school after struggling to ride up the hill I signed in and was ready to cool out until my 3rd period class. Suzuki-sensei came and asked if I was ready and I must've had a funny look on my face. They made a mistake with the schedule, just my luck, so I had a 2nd period(8:50am) class instead of a 3rd period(9:50am) class. Like I expected I was so busted. I got through my lessons just fine, but sitting in the staff room was torture. I just wanted to SLEEP! Khaleelah and I sent texts back and forth all day until lunch. I ate and couldn't hold out anymore. I went in the lunch room and caught a nap on the couch. I was so paranoid, but whenever teacher's or the VICE PRINCIPAL came in, THEY were trying to be quiet to LET me sleep. I couldn't understand. Every time I woke up it was like "you had a long, busy weekend...long travelling, you tired, rest"..umm HUH!!?? As accommodating as my co-workers were, I got up after 20 minutes, and struggled through the rest of the day. I swore I was going straight to sleep once I got home. Of course that didn't happen. I realized I was not cooking because of tiredness and made a trip to the grocery store for some fried fish to have for lunch the next day. I made some brown rice in the rice cooker, watched 6 episodes of Grey's Anatomy on rental DVD and went to bed just after 11pm.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Woke up at 7:30am, showered and got ready. Ate breakfast, I've been doing great with that since I got here..besides I can't really afford to get sick over here(although I do have health insurance). I made a veggie and cheese omelet and ate it with the fresh bakery bread I bought yesterday. I headed to work for my last day of my introductory lesson, thank the Lord. It is crazy teaching every class in the school, 420 students to be exact. Throughout the day I kept thinking 'it's September 11th...it's been 6 years...wow. A rough time for so many people' I had 2 classes for the day, with a couple of class clowns but I couldn't help laughing. They listen and are eager to learn so I can't get mad. I got through the day and left after school to drop the DVDs back to the video store. When I got in around 4:20pm I called Rokudai-sensei because I got mail and of course I couldn't read it. Just before I left school, I spoke to Ian online. He said he was going to call..I was half expecting it because I knew he was really busy preparing for the Amnesia Anniversary @ Koolhaus. Anyway, Rokudai came over to tell me what the mail said and also came as the bearer of good news. The BOE(board of education) was going to buy me an adapter that I originally was going to have to rent from NTT, so that I can make calls home via an IP phone. They are buying the adapter therefore, my only expense is the 9 yen/min when I call home! They really treat me well. We then left my apartment, because I needed to pick up some more ground chicken for my pasta. The portions are so small, so I had too many veggies for the small pack of ground chicken that I had. I went to the store, came back in, cooked pasta and continued watching 'One Love'(yes I rented it again). I went to bed just after 11:30pm.