Good morning.
It's Friday. Friday is, by and large, a day for rejoicing. For me, Friday is a very very long day. To my young and carefree mind, Friday should be a day where you look forward to a night of going out for a few drinks and debriefing with friends (and boy do us gaijin- foreigners- need it in Japan!). However, usually I have to postpone this much needed therapy until sometime around 10pm on a Friday night because I spend these precious nights tutoring English to a couple of really sweet girls from a really sweet family.
But, hey, it's still a Friday which prevents me from appreciating this gig as much as I should. And you know what makes me an even more ungrateful woman? Well, not only do they pay me well, they feed me a well balanced meal for dinner afterwards.
The family I am talking about it the Yoshimuras. Mr. Yoshimura was my Japanese Teacher of English at the first school I worked at last year. He asked me to tutor his now 11 year old daughter, Sae. I have since started tutoring his 18 year old niece, Ayana, as well. We always have fun, and both Mr. and Mrs. have a good sense of humour and we manage to laugh and joke around despite the language barrier.
Two hours of tutoring and a meal later, my Friday night is almost over... and yet I still have that need to break out from the week and mingle with my friends.
So usually I drag myself out to town and spend the 1 1/2 remaining hours before the last train locating friends to share a drink with. Then we come home around midnight and I fall into bed.... though I have been known on occasion to insist on having an impromptu house party and have people over til about 3am. Last time I did that I felt rotten for the whole weekend, so I think I will try and avoid doing that again for a little while, although...
Well, play time is over and it's back to work... gotta find a lesson to teach little Sae.
xo
PS Above is a photo of Sae (pigtails in pink and white shirt) and her friend Ayako. Also Mr and Mrs. Yoshimura messing about, we were all taking silly pics of each other with our mobile phones!
It's Friday. Friday is, by and large, a day for rejoicing. For me, Friday is a very very long day. To my young and carefree mind, Friday should be a day where you look forward to a night of going out for a few drinks and debriefing with friends (and boy do us gaijin- foreigners- need it in Japan!). However, usually I have to postpone this much needed therapy until sometime around 10pm on a Friday night because I spend these precious nights tutoring English to a couple of really sweet girls from a really sweet family.
But, hey, it's still a Friday which prevents me from appreciating this gig as much as I should. And you know what makes me an even more ungrateful woman? Well, not only do they pay me well, they feed me a well balanced meal for dinner afterwards.
The family I am talking about it the Yoshimuras. Mr. Yoshimura was my Japanese Teacher of English at the first school I worked at last year. He asked me to tutor his now 11 year old daughter, Sae. I have since started tutoring his 18 year old niece, Ayana, as well. We always have fun, and both Mr. and Mrs. have a good sense of humour and we manage to laugh and joke around despite the language barrier.
Two hours of tutoring and a meal later, my Friday night is almost over... and yet I still have that need to break out from the week and mingle with my friends.
So usually I drag myself out to town and spend the 1 1/2 remaining hours before the last train locating friends to share a drink with. Then we come home around midnight and I fall into bed.... though I have been known on occasion to insist on having an impromptu house party and have people over til about 3am. Last time I did that I felt rotten for the whole weekend, so I think I will try and avoid doing that again for a little while, although...
Well, play time is over and it's back to work... gotta find a lesson to teach little Sae.
xo
PS Above is a photo of Sae (pigtails in pink and white shirt) and her friend Ayako. Also Mr and Mrs. Yoshimura messing about, we were all taking silly pics of each other with our mobile phones!
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