Today was the first full day of school. Basically just doing level testing to make sure students are placed in classes correctly, so not much intensive teaching. I worked with the preschool today; at first that was one of my biggest concerns, having never taught that age group before, but everything went well, and the main preschool teacher said the lesson I presented was appropriate. She speaks almost no English, and of course my Japanese is still VERY limited, so after school we tried for about five minutes to communicate before we both started laughing and just went and got one of the bilinguals at church/school.
I just got back from kaitenzushi ("sushi-go-round", "sushi train", or conveyor belt sushi, whatever you prefer to call it. . . ) with Shinya. I ate plenty (seven plates) and my bill total came to 735 yen (about $6.50) amazing! Oh, and no tipping here! Oh, and bonus amazing: free green tea! An equivalent meal in the States would definitely be over $10, plus tip. I think I'll be going to sushi fairly often!
Yesterday my searching finally paid off; I bought . . . . a Dance Dance Revolution pad and a Playstation 2! (yeah, I know, I'm easily entertained) Kind of odd to think that in the country that invented that video game, it was rather difficult to actually find one for sale (the dance pad, not the PS2-THAT was easy to find). (And no, it's not just entertainment, it's exercise!) (What? Don't believe me? YOU try hopping around, alternating left, right and both feet simultaneously for 30 minutes and see if you don't work up a sweat!)
