The rest of October

WHOA. It`s kind of been more than a month since I`ve uploaded anything....sorry guys! Been ridiculous busy and preoccupied. But now I`ve got time to write a little before heading off for a business trip.

October 18th Monday

Had a Halloween party with my nursery babies. They had so much fun and I had fun watching them be cute. <3 Then went to help the middle school kids with their last practice before Tuesday`s speech contest.

October 19th Tuesday

English Speech and Performance Contest day in Shibetsu. This year`s kids were all very amazing. It was pretty high level, I have to say. I was a judge again this year along with two other ALTs, and since I have to be fair, my kids didn`t win anything this year. The kids from all the different schools did really well, so it was difficult to judge this year. But everyone still did extremely wonderfully regardless.

October 22 Friday

After school today was the Elementary teacher`s trip. And we went to Sounkyou Hot Springs village. Ayumi (the 23 year old assistant teacher) also went. Yay! The bus ride took 2 hours and on the way there the other teachers had organized Bingo games for us to play. lol That was fun.

When we got there, we checked into our amazing rooms, which were half western style and half japanese style, and then went to the hot springs. They were amazing!! They had outside routenburou ones and a huge roman style inside hot springs. AMAZING!! I took a quick dip into the hot springs then got ready with the other women to go to our enkai dinner. The dinner was delicious! It was traditional style ryoukan enkai food. You sit on the tatami with a mini table in front of you and on the table a tray of amazing delicious foods were laid upon it. Man, I ate so much. Then we went to the second party at the bar lounge and sang our hearts out at karaoke. My teachers got sooooo drunk....and still wanted to drink more... But after that, other people went to the third party to drink, but Ayumi and I went back one more time to the hot springs and then went to sleep.

Next morning, I got up and went to the hot springs one last time before heading out with the other teachers to ride the cable car up Mount Kurodake. That was a relaxing ride up. Once that finished and we came back down, we got back on the bus and headed on home.

October 24th Sunday

I invited the chem teacher out to hang out today, with nowhere in particular in mind. So he suggested to go to Nayoro to eat lunch and then eat at the dessert parlor there. I drove. So I was kinda sick so I couldn`t really think properly, let alone in Japanese, causing me to be kind of silent for a while. SOrry! >.< But we had a good time there, then afterwards we came back to Shibetsu for bowling and karaoke. He`s so damn good at bowling! Like it was ridiculous! Strikes each time! And I just had gutters each time...suck. lol Actually while we were there I ran into one of my high school girls. She was like "Oh, boyfriend?" And I wasn`t sure what to say to that because he was still there listening to us and I just said "Uhm...no, friend." "Oh..." lol Yeah. Then he asked me if my student asked if he was my boyfriend, and when I said yes, he was like "Man, junior high and high school students all seem to like to think those things..haha." Okay. lol

We then went to sing Karaoke. And he was also so damn good at it! I jokingly said to him sing Ayaka`s songs and he just looked at me and said "Really? You want me to sing her songs...? Uh...alright" And he really did and it was CRAZY GOOD! He`s got a high voice, but sung it beautifully. I was quite impressed. After all that, he paid for the whole thing for me. Actually he paid for everything for me that day. That got my heart beating. It was really sweet of him. We then went home after that. Wonderful day. <3 Actually, wonderful weekend. However, things will start to get...interesting from here on out with him...you`ll just have to stay tuned in to the next episode to find out what our relationship is now...ehe...>D

October 29th Friday

This evening was a congratulatory party for one of the substitute teachers at my school because she passed the test that officially makes you a teacher. Hooray! Only a couple of the teachers were able to make the party, but we all wished her congratulations. I`m very happy for her, but at the same time it means she won`t be at our school anymore. Boo...

October 30th Saturday

This mornign until afternoon was my nursery babies recital/show where they show off dances and plays to their families. So cute!!!! OMG It was seriously the cutest recital ever!! WAAAHH!! My babies were all very happy to see me there as well and the parents thanked me for coming out and staying until the very end to watch the whole thing. I love my babies, of course I`d stay for them. This made me very warm and fuzzy inside. hehe

Thanks all! And my next update will prolly be sometime next week.