Back to it

Not much to say here...  Work has started up again - there are FIVE working days this week! 

In order to break up the week a bit, we are going bowling with friends tomorrow night.  We keep talking about doing things with friends, now that I have an apartment in the city (don't think Tokyo style city :S ), but it's time to stop talking the talk and start walking the walk.  Starting with going bowling with Gabby and Danny and their toddler.

Actually, their kid is such a crazy situation.  Mia/Mya/Mea (take your pic, cos I don't know!) was little more than a baby when they came here last year and is now 2 (or 3?).  Her parents are from Montreal, so speak French at home and English when out with friends, but she hadn't started speaking yet when they came to Japan.  She has been attending kindy with Japanese children, so now speaks.  In Japanese.  Which Gabby and Danny don't understand.  They originally thought she was speaking babytalk until a Japanese neighbour held a conversation with her and reported back what they had talked about.  It's pretty sad for the parents, but great for the child if she can keep up with the Japanese when she returns home. 

Now I'm going to pack my bags and head home.  I officially finish at 4:05pm but I invariably leave a little later.  Somehow I am always ready to leave at cleaning time (4:20ish), so that I look like the lazyarse going home while everyone else cleans (hence my updating now :D ).  Not that the Japanese kids version of 'cleaning' seems to involve much more than chatting to friends and hoping the teacher 'supervising' will do their cleaning for them!  I know I should get more involved in school life and help out, but it's just another thing on my Should Do list (others on the list include try Kendo, start exercising, finish decorating my classroom, join the tennis club and do some Japanese study...).  It's a fairly long list and I'm going to need a motivated day to get on top of it. 

Hope you are all doing well and you enjoy the more socially acceptable blog length today!