I had a pretty good weekend. Jeannine came over on Saturday night and we bullshitted about life and living in Japan then watched some Six Feet Under. On Sunday, Laura and I hung out at the park and studied and bullshitted .The azaleas and wisteria are beautiful in the park. I took some pics. After the park, Laura and I went to Felicia's for dinner ( Read more... )

I'm feeling a bit better today. My workshop went well even though I only had 2 students. I now know I can choose the time and day and encourage students to come, so it should be better next time. I also had a good chat with Dusitn today. I've dubbed him my lifecoach because he always knows the right thing to say. It's scary that he knows me so well ( Read more... )

There are some days when I just want to go home and forget I even came to Japan. When I feel I've knocked some of the puzzle off the table and I have to start all over again. Today was one of those days. Teaching was ok, but the end of the day was shitty. We have these cultural workshops that we have to do for next month and topics, number of ( Read more... )

I had a good day at work today. I felt fairly confident and comfortable going into each lesson. And I got all but one of my lessons planned for tomorrow. I'm starting to feel like I know what I'm doing and getting a better handle on guaging the progress of students. I feel like the puzzle pieces are finally coming together. I have the edge done and ( Read more... )

We had a teachers' meeting today and I realized that I need to change how I teach and present the lessons. On one hand I was glad to learn the way students and the company want lessons presented, but on the other hand I was frustrated because I wished I'd learned this sooner during my training. I feel frustrated that I haven't been given stronger ( Read more... )

Well, I can scratch one thing off my to do list---finish reading Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. It's about 3 weeks overdue from the library...oops...gomen nasai!! Now I can move onto Kenzaburo Oe's A Personal Matter. It's for my book club workshop, but I don't think anybody is going to sign up and I'll probably end up doing a boring ( Read more... )

Hmmmm.....my first entry on here. Lately I have been finding it difficult to do all the things I want to do, such as reading, studying, starting to draw and renting movies. And now that I am working 6 days a week it is going to be even more difficult. Maybe I need to learn to not want to do so much. Maybe I should choose one or two things and go ( Read more... )