Had my going away party for all the teachers that are going away this year. I was nice and the food wasn't as bad as it had tasted when it first came here. Heck the only thing that was a little unpalatable was the squid sushi. I liked the uni and ukura, I guess the sushi was just really good this time, because i thought uni tasted like mushy butter the first time i had it. I basically have just come up with the idea to not really be affected by what i am putting in my mouth in Japan. "Oh, i'm eating pig intestines, okay. A little chewy but still okay. Oh, whale... tastes like fishy pork." You know stuff like that.

The party was nice, and the karaoke party after it was good as well. The nicest teacher that i had the opportunity to work for was trying to apologize to me with saying "yeah i know you have been a little troubled by the students[ with their poking and such of all regions of my posterior and front] and i was just wondering if it might have been different if you had gone to another town." I was like, "they are just kids, don't worry about it." She reminded me of my first grade teacher, she was extremely nice and she had pretty good english as well. The one thing that a couple of teachers did keep saying throughout the night was "i wish i had learned a little more English [from you was sort of implied]" But i guess it worked both ways with us teaching you Japanese and you answering our English questions. I still think i got closer to them by speaking Japanese though, but then the kids just got used to me being able to understand them.

I sent two boxes home for about 100 bucks with souvenirs and stuff i wanted to keep from here. Not really that much for the my family, but i tried to get a bunch of stuff for the new in-laws. I bet my new niece would probably like cute things like precure and sugar bunnies here. But i don't know. My sister-in-law likes Hello Kitty so i tried to get some things for her. Then i tried to get some boyish things for my nephews, so paper balls and head bands, and fang keychains.

sugar bunnies


precure