01-14

01-14 – 9:00pm

So yea, it rained today. It rained something awful. I was walking home, and by the time I got back from the station the entirety of the front side of my pants was soaked. I had to iron them to get the water out, which brought the soaked in stench of Japan back to life from within the fibers. That was pleasant.
I did kids lessons all day. I had 5 of them, all in all. I started the day with two Chibiko lessons, had two kinders after that, and a man to man returnee kid after that. That’s quite a workout in case you were wondering. Returnees are kids who have lived in a native English speaking country for some period of time. Their parents usually want them to retain their knowledge of the language, rather than have it like so many people I know who grew up in a multilingual house and barely know how to speak now since forgetting what they learned as a child.
So aside from being dead tired and soaked, today wasn’t so bad. I worked with this guy named Darcy, who was just the epitome of grown up dork, who turned out to be a teacher I know’s husband. He’s totally Bion just in his late 30’s. I guess only Cole will get that one.
Only one more day till payday. That will be nice. I’ll immediately go back to being broke, but, I mean, it will be nice to get all of that out of the way. It will be nice to know I’m one step closer to unimaginable riches. 20 more days or so in this apartment, then it’s on to bigger and better things.

During my returnee lesson today we had a journal writing section and the question I posed was “what’s the best gift anyone could ever give you?” Kastuhito said something super expensive, like a car, namely a Ferrari or a Jaguar or a BMW, which I can relate to. I said the greatest gift I could ever receive would be a family of my own. And really, when I thought about it, that’s 100% true. I can’t wait to be a dad. I love the little rugrats I have running around all day here, even when they are a pain in the ass. I can’t wait to have my own hoard of kids running around I can play with all the time. I need to be financially stable when I get back so I can start looking for a wife. That way I can knock her the hell up. Lol. That just sounds wrong. Except those are probably the exact words I’m going to say. “Sweetheart, I Love you and all, but I am going to knock you the hell up now.”

Zahorcak out.