Little Things

Surprise snow! We got 61 centimeters of it yesterday. Hold on, let me calculate that in inches for you. 2 FEET! We got two feet of snow, and Hachinohe isn't known for getting a lot of snow. Last night wasn't bad, I even shoveled my car a little parking spot, but it was a pain in the ass to deal with this morning, and I got to work 10 minutes late because of the huge traffic jam it caused. Still, this gives me hope for a nice powdery run down Hakkoda the weekend after next.

Little things:

I went to Shingochuu graduation yesterday. Ahh, samishii! My students, all grown up and off to High School. And the tears streaming down their faces, kanashii! In the words of Ms. Kamiyama, the English teacher, they were the best class she'd ever taught (and let me tell you something, she's been in the business for at least 40 years). If only I could trade the ichinensei with them instead...

I am returning tomorrow for my last lesson of the year. I made a lesson where they students break into 3 groups and then choose to listen to English songs. They can choose easy, medium, hard, or impossible songs, and then they all listen to the target part of the song 2 or 3 times. They have worksheets they fill out with lines, and they get points for each correct word. It should be fun, I hope they like the songs.

I had my last trip to the orthopedic clinic on Monday. It was pretty quick, they moved me straight to the back room with the jellyfish, chair of molestation, and water-bed. They gave me some medication, then kicked me out. Looks like I'm pretty much done. My pain is mostly gone too, so soon I'll be back to the gym and snowboarding.

I have a pimple on my forehead. Apparently, in Japan, people tell fortunes by pimples. No joke. My coworker saw my pimple and printed out a few pages of pimple fortune-telling information for me. Thanks Tanaka-san! (For those interested, it's on my forehead, between my left eyebrow and hair-line ;) ).

Lastly, and terribly sadly, my building is going to be torn down next year! I don't know why (cough, soviet-bloc era construction, huge cracks in the concrete, generally depressing non-decor). So, since they are tearing the building down next year, and since my shower is broken and it will cost a lot of money to fix it, I am moving out early! Oh yes. So, goodbye Block B, hello Block A! Yep, just moving over to the building next to me (which they are knocking down in 2 years, so I get to keep my cheap rent until I leave *phew*).

Ok, enkai tomorrow night, then night-bus to Tokyo. Then I get to meet up with Jesse! YES!