Fun Times In and Around Ozu Machi

I suppose I should be writing about my weekend…because it’s been a good one!

This is at least a three day weekend! I say at least because I was supposed to take a day off on Tuesday as well, but I don’t think I’m going to now due to my own lack of planning. :( As an ALT, I’m only required to work 20 days each month, and there are 21 days in this month, so I can take a day off, and Tuesday and Wednesday of this week would be good days to take off because there are no classes these days and I wouldn’t be missing anything. Anyway, I elaborate only to explain to you how cushy my job is. ;)

So this weekend has been really awesome so far! I went to my last welcome Enkai party. It was with my fellow teachers, and it was a lot of fun!! It was at a restaurant and we had lots of good food and alcohol. ;) It was nice to finally get the chance to talk with my teachers in such an informal atmosphere. I talked with the principal, which I especially enjoyed because I think he’s a very interesting person, but I don’t get the chance to talk to him at school at all. So all in all, it was an awesome party and a fun evening full of talking and laughter and stories and smiles. :D

Yesterday, Saturday, my wonderful friend Sabrina called me!! It was incredible. So incredible, in fact, that I wrote and entirely separate blog entry about it! ;) I also went to the house of my host-family (again! They’re so nice to invite me over!). This visit was really special because we had a band rehearsal!! I got to rehearse with their band! And I think you’ll enjoy our song selection: Blowin in the Wind-Bob Dylan, Country Roads-John Denver, You’ve Got a Friend and Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow-Carolyn King, and This Land Is Your Land-PP&M. Great, no?! They’re really great musicians so I had a lot of fun being a part of it all. And then we had a delicious dinner. That was good too. :D

Tonight, I went to “Tom’s” host family’s house (again! They’re way nice also!!) to celebrate a birthday in their family! It was a lot of fun and now I am sooo full! I’ve eaten well this weekend! ;) This family is always such fun to talk with and they’re so nice, so it was a nice evening with friends.

Tomorrow will also be a fun day! I’m going to the Aso mountains with a friend that I met at my Japanese class. He’s Japanese, but lived in America (Chicago) for five years to go to school so he has very good English. So nice!! I think it will be a fun day.

And maybe Tuesday I will go to school and that’ll be fun too!! :D I really like school, so vacations are nice and all, but for me, not really necessary. ;)