Osokunatte Sumimasen
Gomen gomen! It’s been a while since I came to chat. That last couple of weeks have been kind of crazy. All I remember is that there were lots of moving involved, loss of sleep, and a whole lotta partying. Brace for a really long blog…
Ok well Spring Break is here and I guess it doesn’t really feel like spring break unless you’re in school. Technically we’re in school but as teachers we can’t really appreciate the authenticity of “spring break.” Unlike Hawaii or the rest of the frickin’ world, teachers are required to come to school on spring break. So there maybe no students but the staff is there. Doing what? Probably nothing. People usually go on trips or take paid leave but it seems like you would want to take that vacation on another holiday season. Then you might ask, “where are you, Chris?” Well for us FLT’s we have a choice to either go to our home base school and sit with the other teachers and do nothing or come to the central Education Center and do nothing. Usually this place is where you would come if you needed to make props like flash cards or signs or whatever but during non-teaching days this place is popular to FLT/ALT’s of Kyoto City. Even during spring break you may find a handful of people here just relaxing and trying to look busy. For the two weeks Krystal and I are will be here “just chillin.”
Well it’s been about 2 weeks in our new apartment and it’s pretty cool. We just got a bed delivered to us on Monday. When you’re sleeping on a futon for over 6 months the bed is just bliss. It makes it really hard to wake up in the mornings. And on top of that we’re buying our friend’s couch off him today for about 100 bucks. So after today our place will be perfectly furnished. Kind of weird having a place of your own, unlike the place I had before this new place really feels like home. I can imagine myself living in an apartment back home that had a decent kitchen, bathroom, living room, and a bedroom. Also living with Krystal is a new feeling. Before we had our own separate places to retreat to but the furthest one could retreat would be bathroom or balcony. Actually the toilet is in a separate room so it does make a nice thinking place. Not that I’ve needed to retreat in the past 1 and a half weeks. J
Last week we went to a friend's gig in Osaka. His band is called the purple veins and he calls his type of music barnyard rock. They’re actually pretty good and sing about the funniest things. Anyway we were in a shady part of Osaka and the things we found and did is something I rather not discuss so openly on this public journal. So if you do want to hear the story post a comment and I’ll send you an email version of the story. But as a teaser lets just say that it was a mind blowing as well as my virgin consumption experience.
Other than that Krystal and I have been left broke with our wallets and bank accounts dry. There seems like there are a lot of people taking a Tokyo trip this coming week and where will Krystal and I be? We’ll be at the educational center trying to fall asleep. Actually the Education Center has been semi-interesting with D&D being played here. We ask for a room with a white board and go on our quests. Occasionally you have a teacher poke their head in to see if the room is occupied but we carry on as if we were in the middle of a very deep conversation. Which we usually are, for example: how the hell are we going to defeat a giant spider that seems to have some kind of magical glass cloak? Any ideas?
BREAK IT DOWN…the spider…
Ok well Spring Break is here and I guess it doesn’t really feel like spring break unless you’re in school. Technically we’re in school but as teachers we can’t really appreciate the authenticity of “spring break.” Unlike Hawaii or the rest of the frickin’ world, teachers are required to come to school on spring break. So there maybe no students but the staff is there. Doing what? Probably nothing. People usually go on trips or take paid leave but it seems like you would want to take that vacation on another holiday season. Then you might ask, “where are you, Chris?” Well for us FLT’s we have a choice to either go to our home base school and sit with the other teachers and do nothing or come to the central Education Center and do nothing. Usually this place is where you would come if you needed to make props like flash cards or signs or whatever but during non-teaching days this place is popular to FLT/ALT’s of Kyoto City. Even during spring break you may find a handful of people here just relaxing and trying to look busy. For the two weeks Krystal and I are will be here “just chillin.”
Well it’s been about 2 weeks in our new apartment and it’s pretty cool. We just got a bed delivered to us on Monday. When you’re sleeping on a futon for over 6 months the bed is just bliss. It makes it really hard to wake up in the mornings. And on top of that we’re buying our friend’s couch off him today for about 100 bucks. So after today our place will be perfectly furnished. Kind of weird having a place of your own, unlike the place I had before this new place really feels like home. I can imagine myself living in an apartment back home that had a decent kitchen, bathroom, living room, and a bedroom. Also living with Krystal is a new feeling. Before we had our own separate places to retreat to but the furthest one could retreat would be bathroom or balcony. Actually the toilet is in a separate room so it does make a nice thinking place. Not that I’ve needed to retreat in the past 1 and a half weeks. J
Last week we went to a friend's gig in Osaka. His band is called the purple veins and he calls his type of music barnyard rock. They’re actually pretty good and sing about the funniest things. Anyway we were in a shady part of Osaka and the things we found and did is something I rather not discuss so openly on this public journal. So if you do want to hear the story post a comment and I’ll send you an email version of the story. But as a teaser lets just say that it was a mind blowing as well as my virgin consumption experience.
Other than that Krystal and I have been left broke with our wallets and bank accounts dry. There seems like there are a lot of people taking a Tokyo trip this coming week and where will Krystal and I be? We’ll be at the educational center trying to fall asleep. Actually the Education Center has been semi-interesting with D&D being played here. We ask for a room with a white board and go on our quests. Occasionally you have a teacher poke their head in to see if the room is occupied but we carry on as if we were in the middle of a very deep conversation. Which we usually are, for example: how the hell are we going to defeat a giant spider that seems to have some kind of magical glass cloak? Any ideas?
BREAK IT DOWN…the spider…
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