Spring break summary!
I was having such a nice holiday, out and about, that I forgot to / couldn’t be bothered to update my blog with what I was up to!
- Spent the first week in Yamaguchi-ken…day-trip to Tsuwano, AJET meeting in Yamaguchi-shi, school spring concert, lunch with a Japanese friend…Just nice normal stuff ; relaxing, and feeling no guilt at all about being the only teacher at my base to school to be lucky enough to have ‘apartment leave’!
- In the second week my friends, Julie and Jen, visited from England. They arrived on the Tuesday, and we spent the rest of the week touring round the local area ; a day of Yanai and then Kintaikyo, followed by a yummy yakitori and sake meal, an evening of divine yakiniku, purikura, and karaoke, and a day in Hiroshima. In Hiroshima, I took them to the Peace Park, pointed out where the museum was, and then left them to it for 4 hours! I’ve already been to the museum twice, and that was once too many! I think it’s an amazing place, but it’s just too emotionally draining, and on both occasions gave me a headache! So this time, I let the girls explore on their own, and I had a glorious afternoon, sitting in the sun in the Peace Park, drinking Starbucks OJ, and reading my newly purchased Heat magazine. Splendid! The next day, we were all supposed to be going to Miyajima, and then out for dinner at Sanzoku in the evening…but things really didn’t go according to plan! I was sick…very sick...! (just for 24 hours…but still, it felt like I would never eat food again!) So the girls, armed with my directions (!!) and train times, headed off to explore the wonderful island on their own. I basically slept the whole day…until I was woken by my doorbell, and my supervisor standing on the doorstep! After we had spoken for a couple of minutes about moving desks etc at school, he started to leave. He obviously realised that he should say something to me, as I had told him I was sick, and I looked pretty rough…hideous in fact! It was clear that he hadn’t managed to work his words out though…couldn’t quite remember the expression ‘Get well soon’….so instead he muttered, ‘Good luck!’ And remember folks…this is a senior high English teacher!!
- Spent the first week in Yamaguchi-ken…day-trip to Tsuwano, AJET meeting in Yamaguchi-shi, school spring concert, lunch with a Japanese friend…Just nice normal stuff ; relaxing, and feeling no guilt at all about being the only teacher at my base to school to be lucky enough to have ‘apartment leave’!
- In the second week my friends, Julie and Jen, visited from England. They arrived on the Tuesday, and we spent the rest of the week touring round the local area ; a day of Yanai and then Kintaikyo, followed by a yummy yakitori and sake meal, an evening of divine yakiniku, purikura, and karaoke, and a day in Hiroshima. In Hiroshima, I took them to the Peace Park, pointed out where the museum was, and then left them to it for 4 hours! I’ve already been to the museum twice, and that was once too many! I think it’s an amazing place, but it’s just too emotionally draining, and on both occasions gave me a headache! So this time, I let the girls explore on their own, and I had a glorious afternoon, sitting in the sun in the Peace Park, drinking Starbucks OJ, and reading my newly purchased Heat magazine. Splendid! The next day, we were all supposed to be going to Miyajima, and then out for dinner at Sanzoku in the evening…but things really didn’t go according to plan! I was sick…very sick...! (just for 24 hours…but still, it felt like I would never eat food again!) So the girls, armed with my directions (!!) and train times, headed off to explore the wonderful island on their own. I basically slept the whole day…until I was woken by my doorbell, and my supervisor standing on the doorstep! After we had spoken for a couple of minutes about moving desks etc at school, he started to leave. He obviously realised that he should say something to me, as I had told him I was sick, and I looked pretty rough…hideous in fact! It was clear that he hadn’t managed to work his words out though…couldn’t quite remember the expression ‘Get well soon’….so instead he muttered, ‘Good luck!’ And remember folks…this is a senior high English teacher!!
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