hehehehehehehe. saw this guy when i went to mito station today to meet up with Jay and play some taiko. seeing someone in a fat suica pengin suit just makes your day, yeah? anyway, another weekend is past (hell i gotta go to sleep and make it through hump day tomorrow) and I've got another trip out to Tokyo to decompress/recover from. Been on a small downturn lately, to tell the truth, but nothing I can't recover from. This week is my first week at the "bad" school where apparently there are fights all the time and the kids are all little punks who won't respect you or listen to you and will probably steal your bike. I hear lots of horror stories about similar schools from other JETs in the area, and all kinds of bad things from other teachers in the area. Even the sweet little majime kids at Akiyama seem to be scared of their counterparts at the big JHS in Takahagi. But of course, everything always gets blown out of proportion. The kids may be a bit more unruly and prone to talking in class, but they seem fine. If anything I am getting a better reaction from them in general, in that they are not shy at all about coming up and talking to me (just not in English like they should be). The only annoying part is when the JTE is trying to teach a grammar point and none of them are paying attention. That's only happened one time so far though. The biggest change between my current and previous school is just that the girls are all very noisy and won't stop asking me if im single etc. Which was funny and cute the first time but gets old pretty quick. It also looks like I will have to do more work at this school, since the JTEs seem a lot more willing to go into class without and preparation and just say, "well Bryan do you have any ideas for what we should do this lesson?" That's supposed to be my line!! Honestly I am complaining on both sides, since last week I was lamenting my job being limited to a human tape recorder. I just forgot how lazy I am.
As another example of that, even though I was looking forward to going to TGS this year, I couldn't be bothered to get on a train and go an hour tops from Shibuya/Harajuku to Makuhari. Heh but that might have had to do with me preferring the company of the 4 good looking girls I was with versus hordes of smelly nerds. Had an awesome day in Tokyo Saturday, got up early to take the express in, and went straight to the Chiba Lotte Marines game with Angela. Afterwards it was a fuckin IES reunion, meeting up with the Oyabun, Blanchard, Kristine, NL (to differentiate from Ibaraki Angela sorry), Sunny, and Joel. Oh and plus we saw gay Lee san one of the Korean dudes from Bekka back in 2k4... my first words upon seeing him were "what the fuck are you still doing here??" Anyway, it was a night true to form for the A Team, even in limited numbers. Hana no mae nomihoudai, on a mission to get as many umeshus as possible. Then off for some karaoke where I don't think anyone sang a song in English, and then me Blanchard and Angela went off to Roppongi. I was basically gone at that point and the night took a turn for the worse. Not that I was drunk or puking or anything, just that I was kind of exhausted and not mentally prepared to deal with some problems that popped up. Problems that I thought I had left behind like 5 years ago, but what can you do. Growing experience or somesuch. Anyway, gotta get some sleep, I need lots of energy so I can get up early and think up something to do with the special ed kids tomorrow.
Oh I almost forgot! The yakitori place in Omika has definitely made itself my second favorite restaurant! Went there again and they remembered not to add the inch of head to the top of our beers! Khari and Hana at Little Nepal better watch out!
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