Hectic Wednesdays, More Training and Naoko!

So, it's Sunday here in Saijo, and it's about 24 degrees. Still. The weather has been becoming progressively muggier over the last 2 days and today was no exception. Man, I don't think coming out of work for lunch has ever felt so difficult. Even the air I breathed was hot and seemed to cook me from the inside.

Wednesday last week was a tad crazy. I not only had to go an collect my Alien ID card (so I don't have to carry my passport everywhere!), but I decided to enroll for Japanese lessons. As I innocently strolled into the International Centre office, I was hustled upstairs and into the middle of a lesson. The lesson itself seemed like a cross between GCSE French and Kindergarten for Middle Eastern brats. I didn't know what to say when the extremely polite Japanese teacher explained to me, that lessons start at ten. Something I already knew.

Friday was Kids training at Okayama EkiMae (Eki Mae is Japanese for station). What followed was 7 hours of the gayest shit I have ever been through. Holding hands, wiggling and singing songs such as "Everybody's wiggling, wiggling, wiggling, just like me", made the beer afterward seem like a Godsend.

My first kids lesson was today. NOVA splits kids lessons into Chibiko (2-4), Kinder (4-6), Junior (6-9) and Senior (9-12). I had a Junior class of 3 children, two girls and a boy called Naoko, who upon meeting me, ruffled my hair and attempted to jump on my head.