Rainy, then a little snowy in the evening.
Today was quite a good day. Hurray for that!
In the morning, Fumihiko got up early and went off to Fukushima for tests at the hospital. Poor thing was out of here by 6:30 am.
I got up much later, showered and then came back to the living room for my coffee and news. After the news, it was my Murder and Mayhem show, Criminal Minds. It was good today, but violent. I started making my brunch just as it finished. Fumihiko called me and chatted for a bit, then just as soon as I got him off the phone, a student called to cancel and reschedule. Ack. I was trying to eat my omelette while it was hot and couldn't really tell my student that!
It was raining very heavily when I left and I was soaked by the time I got on my bike. Sigh. I made a detour to go to a convenience store. I was just in the process of sticking my arm out to signal that I was turning when some stupid car came up right beside me. It was really windy, I had one arm halfway in the air and I was scared. I came thisclose to hitting the damn car. He or she, no idea which, just kept on going. I picked up something for my lunch at the store, although my hands were really shaking.
At the school, I parked my bike and went in. I locked the door and did a strip. My pants were dripping and hanging low because they were so heavy with rain. I quickly got ready for the day.
When my student and her mother arrived, I started teaching. This particular child is really fun and sweet. I have taught her since she was about 3 years old I think. We finished up a bit early today, so I brought out some of the books I bought when I was in Niigata. She read one! I did have to help with some of the words, but not that many. She didn't understand everything, but with the pictures in the book and me helping out, she did amazingly well. I was so proud of her. I didn't really think she could do it. I wanted her to start with an easier book, but that was the one she picked up.
I had a huge gap in my day today. With the morning's cancellation I had 4 hours to fill. The weather was still majorly awful, so going home or out wasn't really an option. I did paperwork. I brought my bookkeeping up to date, did a little lesson prep, cleaning, and then some craftwork. I had lunch around 4, and read my newspaper too. I was enjoying myself. Fumihiko called me just before 5 to say he was back and could he come and visit my school. Against my better judgement, I let him. I made him some coffee while he was there, which he drunk. He had all his Fukushima paperwork with him and was going over it in front of me. He told me that he's decided to have a private room while I'm there, and I can stay in the room. Lights out are at 9:00pm. I haven't gone to bed at 9:00 pm since I was 12. I'm not sick. I understand about everyone else needing rest, but I'm not sick. Anyway, he kept coming up with all these doom and gloom predictions for the whole procedure and really upset me. Before my 6:00 pm class. I kicked him out of (=politely told him he had to leave) my school at 5:30 so I could finish getting ready, but really to calm down.
My last class was fun. We talked about numbers for prices. The Japanese money counting system is completely different from the western style, so it was a good lesson for her. She's a nice young lady and we enjoyed our time together.
After work, I called Fumihiko and he came back to the school for me. He picked me up and we went back home to change. I really needed to change my shoes and my jacket. They were all still wet. I had managed to dry my pants, but didn't want to risk the jacket near the heater.
We went out for soba and then as we had nothing else planned, we went for karaoke. We got a Japanese style room for a change, so sat on zabuton on the floor. We had a great old time! Fumihiko turned on the rating system so we could find out how good/bad we were. Most of what we did was great. Because I did a lot of Canadian stuff, I came out at the best, good old number one. What did I sing? Lots of things, Michael Buble's Home, Meatloaf's Anything for Love, Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill and Glass Tiger's Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone. Lots of stuff. Fumihiko did well too. He did a mixture of English and Japanese songs.
We finished up at karaoke just before 12:15 so that we could get home in time to watch Project Runway. Tonight they had to make their projects out of jeans. It was an interesting challenge and a good show. Fumihiko watched it too, and seemed to enjoy it. He's been picking up a few of the expressions from the show lately too. This week he told me that I could "leave the runway" and that I was "out. Auf Wiedersehen." It was quite funny!
And that was it. We spent the rest of the night quietly, but enjoyably. Night.
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