Yay! It's so good to know that you guys are actually reading it- I look forward to reading your blogs too, so we can keep in touch with each other via my favorite method, internet stalking.
So not much today, school was a bit rough as my first new lessons (I do the same two lessons about 12 times apiece) didn't go as smoothly as I had hoped. The best is when I got angry with my supervisor, who kept going "But how?" when I asked the students to form groups. He wouldn't listen to my explanation, so finally I just started angrily moving desks (the kid whose desk I moved looked super shocked as he sat there deskless in his chair) into groups saying it wasn't that hard. But luckily the moment passed! I love my job- I'm in a great situation, smart students and super nice teachers, but sometimes I get really frustrated! Especially since I had worked really hard the past three days on those lessons! Sigh.
OK, then after school, went shopping with Andrew the Brit-Australian and Elisa the multilingual Italian at Omi-Hachiman, which is about the closest to Paramus we've got in Northern Shiga! I got the rest of my Halloween costume (Carmen Sandiego- pics of course to be posted in a few days!) and we ate crazy amounts of food.
OMG, we went to Baskin Robbins where they have the BEST ice cream flavor! It's called "Baseball Park" and it's caramel ice cream with chocolate covered pretzels, peanuts, and caramel popcorn. There might be other stuff too. I love it!!! Though I've convinced others to try it and one described it as "tasting like the bottom of a trash bag." Lies!
I also learned that saying "Oyasumi nasai" ("Good night") has a different meaning in Japan. So when I was saying what I thought was a simple "Good night" to the cashiers at Family Mart, there was a reason why they gave me weird looks! Apparently it's something you say to the rest of your family before all of you go to bed...
Which is what I should do as it's almost 2 am and I have to wake up in less than 4! Dang. Sorry this is so long- next time there will be more pictures!
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3 comments:
wow, pam mad? sounds fascinating.
you should change your blog time to Japan time!
can't wait to see, "where is the world is carmen pamdiego"
carmen sandiego! that's the PERFECT costume for you!
haha Nice...Lakshmi, you do love my name! (Although I'm sure I could find some words that rhyme with Lux...)
And Kat- yes, I am SUPER psyched! Right now I'm coloring in pictures of a Japanese shrine and Mount Fuji so I can hold them as thieved objects!
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