Things that have been occupying my mind lately, in brief
The Cardinals going into the NLDS this Wednesday!
This week, my junior high school students are doing a work-experience study where they go to various jobs for the whole week instead of coming to school. Which means no classes for me at Junior High this week.
Wednesday, however, I will be working my butt off because it’s open house at my elementary school, so I will have back to back classes for the entire day, while being observed by my students’ parents.
This weekend I will be going with a group of about 18 JETs to Kyoto for 3 nights (we have a 3-day weekend)! I haven’t been back since I studied abroad there 3 years ago, so I’m really looking forward to it.
I participated in a pub quiz this weekend and my team did surprisingly poor. We finished solidly in second-to-last place. That is, we thought we did, but then a few minutes later the host announced that he miscalculated and we were, in fact, in dead last. Sigh…
I have felt increasingly happy over the past few weeks. Like, really happy. This is a good trend.
The end.
About Me
My name is Lawrence Denes.After spending 5 years studying Japanese language, culture, literature, and history in St. Louis and Kyoto, I now live in Japan, in a town that most Japanese people have never even heard of, lost amid the rice fields and vending machines.
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