January 19, 2013

Saturday - warm and sunny - beautiful day!

A good day.

I got up on time this morning and took a shower.  Afterwards I spent some time on my computer and then we left for brunch around 10:30.  We had a decent meal in Gusto and then headed to my school.  

F and I both did a lot of snow shovelling, with F taking care of the majority of it.  He was super.  He actually takes it out of my school’s parking lot and dumps it.  

I had a great class with my first student today.  She was in a good mood and I think class was just difficult enough for her. After she left I relaxed for a few minutes then did paperwork.  

At a little after 3 I went out again to check the parking area.  It was still fine, but I tidied some of it up.  F had had to stop when my student and her mother arrived early.  I went back in my school and read some more.

My second student arrived a few minutes late, but it was lovely to see her.  We had a good class together too.  

After class, I finished the day’s paperwork and then did the dishes up.  I changed and called F.  No answer.  This again.  I called him on his cell, the apartment and even texted him without an answer.  Finally, half an hour later I caught him. He picked me up and we went home for a few minutes.  We had a bit of a spat about where to eat, but we agreed on Grado.

We went home to pick up newspapers and were going to walk to the restaurant.  However, it was starting to snow and rain, so we drove after all.  We had a lovely meal.  I had chicken and hauksai pasta in a cream sauce and it was amazing, F had a seafood aqua pazza that he said was okay.  The best thing for me though was after we were drinking our tea or coffee, a nearby family got up to go and the young man came over to talk to me.  He asked me in English if I was Helen and when I said yes, he told me his name. He was one of my ex-students from my Eikaiwa days!  I started teaching him when he was 4 or 5 and now he’s in his second year of high school.  It was so lovely to see him.  I often wrote (obliquely) about our classes on my blog.  He had to leave, but I was fair chuffed to see him again.  

F and I came home and had a fairly quiet evening.  I played him the first episode of the Warwick Davis comedy show I watched last week and he was laughing at it too.  I taped the second episode tonight so I think I’ll have to run it for F!  I also watched a few other things, the CSI shows, Celebrity Apprentice and Chuck.  Poor F, when I’m around, he doesn’t really get to see much Japanese TV.  (It’s better for him…trust me!)

Anyway, that’s about it for me.  Tomorrow we might go shopping, I’m not sure.  Hopefully there won’t be any snow-shovelling in our day!  I should get some sleep.  Night!