Take the job and shove it
Jul. 15th, 2008 | 02:00 pm
Well...not shove it. You can set it aside gently. But...move it away from my personal space.
Erm.
So it's my last week as an ALT. I have two days left in the Jr. HS. Friday I go to an elementary school. After that...I'm no longer an ALT. I'm still on contract until August 15th though. But I'll only have a handful of classes in that time. I might have a lesson a day. So far it looks like 1 hour a day (except fot the days I'll be out of town) teaching a 14 year-old boy who is going to Ohio in September with his family (I'm guessing his dad works for Honda).
Anyhoo...in my next two days, I have FOUR lessons with QT sensei. Hazzah!
Then a party on Friday night with the other English teachers at my company (not the teachers at my school...does that make sense?) and some friends/former students (from adult classes, NOT JrHS students).
Next weekend, I'm heading up to Shibukawa to hang out with Annie and stare at people's bellybuttons. Then out to Saitama to see Sanrio Puroland (again...ahem.)
Then I have a TOKIO concert in Sendai with Lisa. Hope to meet up with Medders and maybe Bethany while I'm out there.
In August I have a trip to Shizuoka for fangirly-fun-and-games with several friends who I have not seen nearly often enough.
Later on, I'm heading out on the road with a sassy young miss, who has never been on a roadtrip without her family before. At our destination, we shall meet up with several other companions and see K8. My last weekend in Japan is a K8 concert. How perfect is that?
Then a quick run back to Tochigi to empty my bank account, do one last load of laundry and get on a bus to Narita airport. I'm flying to Sanfrasico first to visit with a friend who helped me get my plane tickets. (I'm paying for my trip home with Arashi tickets. THAT, like nothing else ever has, convinces me that there is some order in the universe.) Then I'm back to Canadia on the 31st or 1st.
I go back to school on the 2nd.
I still need to clean out my apartment. Send stuff home. Pack. Send more stuff home. Throw more stuff out. No lose my mind(y).
Yeah.
That's my summer so far.
How are you guys doing?
