So after about a year of being in Japan, I've noticed that not only my students but my co-workers wave more. mahahahaha.
My co-workers seemed a bit surprised by it in the beginning...and then I tried to hold back...but by then they had started to wave back so I've stopped trying to fight it. hehe
:P
It's fun to walk in the halls during lunch and have kids saying "hello" left and right (both in Japanese and English) and then having most of them wave as well.
Some of them have started imitating my double-handed-uber-excited wave. That's the best!
ahahahaha!
^^b
Monday, June 29, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
My Birthday
So yesterday was my birthday and it was quite fun! Sadly, it was my first time not celebrating it with my family and my mom’s delicious food and home-made vanilla cake…*drool* but it was still an awesome day! :]
I came to work and found a cute bag with 2 small dried roses on it. They were from my JTE (the one that happens to sit next to me. Hehe) and inside the bag were some sweets. Then, my second host mom (the one that lives in Amagi) sang the “Happy Birthday” song to me and gave me a present (they were 3 really pretty Japanese handkerchiefs). Oh, and they all gave me really cute cards too. ^^
Then I was invited to have lunch with the ladies in the main office (I used to have lunch with them all the time but once I started teaching, it got harder to meet because they eat lunch during 4th period). My first host mom was sweet enough to make me lunch. And Moriyama-san (one of the ladies that really helped me out in the beginning. She took me to the department stores to buy stuff like towels and bedding and water filters…) bought a green tea cake that we all shared after eating! It was so yummy. Oh, and she gave me a present and a gag present. Hahaha.
So in Japanese, you can play with the sounds for my birthday and get “mushiba” which means “decayed tooth” (or cavity). So Moriyama-san gave me a toothbrush and toothpaste. Hahaha.
Oh, and since we shared the cake with the 2 guys in the main office too, they found out it was my birthday. So one of them decided to buy me some flowers. (Occasionally we get eggs and flowers from another high school, an agricultural high school actually, which get sold to the teachers and administrators and that day they had sent some flowers. So Yamamoto-san told me to choose the ones I like that that’ll be his present to me. So sweet, ne?
I also got some sweets from another pally-wally teacher.
Surprisingly, I didn’t get attacked by my kids…but I think they forgot since they just finished midterms and are now preparing for the Culture Festival.
Anyhoo, after all this, I went home, did some cleaning and got ready to go have dinner with my buddies. We went to a local restaurant we like to go to (so much so the workers kinda know us how. Haha) that sells good hamburgers and “Mexican” food. Sure, it’s not really Mexican but it does taste good. (But I’m really glad they sell actual hamburgers. In other restaurants, their idea of “hamburger” is really just the meat patty. It’s good but it’s a bit of a disappointment when you read “hamburger” and just get the patty…). Oh, and I got lots of cool mugs! One of them looks like a mushroom! Ahahaha. So I will have fun drinking about my new mugs in the coming week.
After having a delicious dinner, we all went to a mall to go to Baskin Robbins! And then we all got a sugar high. Hehe. But I bet it would have been a crazy sugar high if I had eaten some of Jenn’s home-made cookies. I had some this morning and they’re sooooooo good. But I definitely need some milk to go with it! ^^v
And yea…that was pretty much what I did.
Tomorrow though, I’m waking up at the crack of dawn to train hop to Tottori-ken. That is where the next Oxy Ohana reunion is being held! I can’t wait!!!
\(^_^)/
I came to work and found a cute bag with 2 small dried roses on it. They were from my JTE (the one that happens to sit next to me. Hehe) and inside the bag were some sweets. Then, my second host mom (the one that lives in Amagi) sang the “Happy Birthday” song to me and gave me a present (they were 3 really pretty Japanese handkerchiefs). Oh, and they all gave me really cute cards too. ^^
Then I was invited to have lunch with the ladies in the main office (I used to have lunch with them all the time but once I started teaching, it got harder to meet because they eat lunch during 4th period). My first host mom was sweet enough to make me lunch. And Moriyama-san (one of the ladies that really helped me out in the beginning. She took me to the department stores to buy stuff like towels and bedding and water filters…) bought a green tea cake that we all shared after eating! It was so yummy. Oh, and she gave me a present and a gag present. Hahaha.
So in Japanese, you can play with the sounds for my birthday and get “mushiba” which means “decayed tooth” (or cavity). So Moriyama-san gave me a toothbrush and toothpaste. Hahaha.
Oh, and since we shared the cake with the 2 guys in the main office too, they found out it was my birthday. So one of them decided to buy me some flowers. (Occasionally we get eggs and flowers from another high school, an agricultural high school actually, which get sold to the teachers and administrators and that day they had sent some flowers. So Yamamoto-san told me to choose the ones I like that that’ll be his present to me. So sweet, ne?
I also got some sweets from another pally-wally teacher.
Surprisingly, I didn’t get attacked by my kids…but I think they forgot since they just finished midterms and are now preparing for the Culture Festival.
Anyhoo, after all this, I went home, did some cleaning and got ready to go have dinner with my buddies. We went to a local restaurant we like to go to (so much so the workers kinda know us how. Haha) that sells good hamburgers and “Mexican” food. Sure, it’s not really Mexican but it does taste good. (But I’m really glad they sell actual hamburgers. In other restaurants, their idea of “hamburger” is really just the meat patty. It’s good but it’s a bit of a disappointment when you read “hamburger” and just get the patty…). Oh, and I got lots of cool mugs! One of them looks like a mushroom! Ahahaha. So I will have fun drinking about my new mugs in the coming week.
After having a delicious dinner, we all went to a mall to go to Baskin Robbins! And then we all got a sugar high. Hehe. But I bet it would have been a crazy sugar high if I had eaten some of Jenn’s home-made cookies. I had some this morning and they’re sooooooo good. But I definitely need some milk to go with it! ^^v
And yea…that was pretty much what I did.
Tomorrow though, I’m waking up at the crack of dawn to train hop to Tottori-ken. That is where the next Oxy Ohana reunion is being held! I can’t wait!!!
\(^_^)/
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