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Friday, 26 Dec 2008 | Views [92] | Comments [1]
It's a day late, but I left the house this morning and was surprised to see snow everywhere. No one else seems too phased by it. Everyone disappeared from the staff room so I went out for a while and took photos. Turns out they were all getting into ... Read more >
Thursday, 25 Dec 2008 | Views [81] | Comments [3]
It's Christmas day, I'm at my desk with no actual work to do, but I have to sit here or take an annual leave day. Since there's no particular thing I have to do, and since I live in the carpark, I might as well sit inside and use the internet. I went ... Read more >
Monday, 22 Dec 2008 | Views [73]
Friday after work was the end of year enkai, or Christmas party if you like. I was really tired on Friday as I haven't been sleeping well, as a result I really didn't feel like going. But since it was just down the road I went along. It actually turned ... Read more >
Thursday, 18 Dec 2008 | Views [81] | Comments [2]
I have received ten or so cards, mostly from the 1st year kids. They have wished me a 'melly X'smas' and a 'marry christmas' (that may have been a proposal but I'm choosing to assume it's an innocent mistake). Of course bribery was involved, there ... Read more >
Friday, 12 Dec 2008 | Views [69] | Comments [2]
I told the students yesterday that I have some koala keychains (that Mum sent me) and if they would like one they should write me a letter (in English of course) before Christmas. Today I got 4 handmade christmas cards, not exactly what I was looking ... Read more >
Monday, 8 Dec 2008 | Views [89] | Comments [1]
Kin-yobi: Friday night I went to see ‘Wall-e’ at Aeon (a big shopping centre) in Ota. Marcus (from the US) and Lida (from Canada) came with me. We went to a little boutique grocery store and I introduced Marcus to Tim Tams. He seemed to appreciate them, ... Read more >
Thursday, 4 Dec 2008 | Views [70]
I am in the middle of the exam period, yesterday was exceptionally boring as I had no classes. For about half an hour I got to go into the students homeroom and read out part of the exam. They do a listening test, but it was only around 10 minutes per ... Read more >
Tuesday, 2 Dec 2008 | Views [68]
Sunday was a work day for me. We had a couple of shorter than usual classes in the morning and then there was the school 'marathon', which was only a 2.2 km run, but that's what they called it. I took a bunch of photos, just a few are here. It was freezing ... Read more >
Tuesday, 25 Nov 2008 | Views [94] | Comments [1]
The weekend just gone was a long weekend, we had monday off. I have another seminar on Thursday and a meeting Friday afternoon, so there's not much time left for work. Saturday I took my bike for an oil change at Hiruma-sensei's fathers shop. He invited ... Read more >
Thursday, 20 Nov 2008 | Views [78]
Yesterday was ALT day at Umeda JHS. Galen is the ALT there, he is the drummer from the band I saw the other week. His plan for the day was to do a music theme, so he came up with Hip Hop day. We were asked to dress as Hip Hop or Rap musicians and ... Read more >
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