busy weekend paints Originally uploaded by nitaspitas. Somehow, I ended up doing a lot this past weekend--even more than I'd planned, and it was already a relatively busy weekend to begin with. Started off with some volleyball at church with the youth group (my weekends are Sunday-Monday), and then yakiniku/soba/veggies bbq with the college and women's group after church. I ended up hanging out with some of the girls from the college group afterwards for a bit, then went shopping. During shopping, I got a text message saying that there was dinner and karaoke for a trainer's birthday that night. After an afternoon out in the sun, I felt too tired to go, and I almost didn't... but I hadn't hung out with the foreign staff in a while, so I thought I'd at least stop by and say hi and ended up staying out with them until we did print club and won candy and toys at the arcade next to the karaoke place. The next day (yesterday), I went and printed tenugui in a workshop outside of the city (after going to a park and having lunch and being traumatized by the giant ants and this strange insect that was sucking the juice out of a caterpillar while trying to lift it off the ground). Anyway. It was my first time screen printing, but it was so much fun, I think I'm going to look for more things to print now ^-^ I was so tired when I got back that I thought about cancelling my Japanese lesson last night, or shortening it, since we weren't covering that much material, but somehow, I still had the energy to get through the whole lesson. And the material was really easy, so the lesson ended up being really good. Even though my weekend ended there, somehow, today seemed to be practically weekend, too. I have two of my favorite classes on Tuesdays--one with a parent, and one with a high schooler who's pretty high level--and it's my lightest day of classes. And I went to a place my parent student recommended for lunch today that had a lunch cake set (pasta, consumme, salad, panini, juice, cake, and ice cream. good thing everything was Japanese-sized...). And one of my other favorite students had a Japanese teacher's class today, so she came an hung out with me during one of my breaks. And then while I was preparing for class (i.e., coloring), Manager told me we were going to Universal Japan for our "special training" (i.e., field trip!) in July. I heard it was small and kind of boring, but hey, free trip! So I didn't do any of the cleaning or laundry that I'd been planning to do the weekend, but somehow I'm not exhausted, even though I totally expected to be, running on not as many hours of sleep as I'd like for the past few nights. p.s.- I signed my contract to extend an extra month (with a raise, yay!) today. So I'll be here until the first week of September. And then I'm planning to be home for a couple weeks before coming back to study Japanese in October.

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Originally uploaded by nitaspitas.

Somehow, I ended up doing a lot this past weekend--even more than I'd planned, and it was already a relatively busy weekend to begin with. Started off with some volleyball at church with the youth group (my weekends are Sunday-Monday), and then yakiniku/soba/veggies bbq with the college and women's group after church. I ended up hanging out with some of the girls from the college group afterwards for a bit, then went shopping.

During shopping, I got a text message saying that there was dinner and karaoke for a trainer's birthday that night. After an afternoon out in the sun, I felt too tired to go, and I almost didn't... but I hadn't hung out with the foreign staff in a while, so I thought I'd at least stop by and say hi and ended up staying out with them until we did print club and won candy and toys at the arcade next to the karaoke place.

The next day (yesterday), I went and printed tenugui in a workshop outside of the city (after going to a park and having lunch and being traumatized by the giant ants and this strange insect that was sucking the juice out of a caterpillar while trying to lift it off the ground). Anyway. It was my first time screen printing, but it was so much fun, I think I'm going to look for more things to print now ^-^

I was so tired when I got back that I thought about cancelling my Japanese lesson last night, or shortening it, since we weren't covering that much material, but somehow, I still had the energy to get through the whole lesson. And the material was really easy, so the lesson ended up being really good.

Even though my weekend ended there, somehow, today seemed to be practically weekend, too. I have two of my favorite classes on Tuesdays--one with a parent, and one with a high schooler who's pretty high level--and it's my lightest day of classes. And I went to a place my parent student recommended for lunch today that had a lunch cake set (pasta, consumme, salad, panini, juice, cake, and ice cream. good thing everything was Japanese-sized...).

And one of my other favorite students had a Japanese teacher's class today, so she came an hung out with me during one of my breaks. And then while I was preparing for class (i.e., coloring), Manager told me we were going to Universal Japan for our "special training" (i.e., field trip!) in July. I heard it was small and kind of boring, but hey, free trip!

So I didn't do any of the cleaning or laundry that I'd been planning to do the weekend, but somehow I'm not exhausted, even though I totally expected to be, running on not as many hours of sleep as I'd like for the past few nights.

p.s.- I signed my contract to extend an extra month (with a raise, yay!) today. So I'll be here until the first week of September. And then I'm planning to be home for a couple weeks before coming back to study Japanese in October.