Hmmmm....

I guess I'm starting to get a little more settled. However, I can't say entirely so because I don't have a real routine yet. Tomorrow I'm supposed to make a school visit tomorrow just to see where I will be teaching. The only problem is that I'm not sure where I will be teaching, especially because I won't even be going to my base school until November. For the next month I will be teaching elementary school students, which supposedly means that I'll be playing a bunch of games with them. I'm excited.

Weird observation time:
Japan is an amazing country. There are so many interesting things to see and do, and I know I haven't even seen anything yet. However, I must say that there are some rather strange things that I don't quite understand. For instance, there are random sounds dinging outside doorways that don't seem to serve any logical purpose. The education center that I'm currently working at has speakers at the entrances of the buildings and they just continuously go on and on. I've asked some of the other senior ALTs what they are doing, but they have no idea either.

Anyway, I'm excited about tomorrow afternoon because me and some fellow ALTs will attending an event called "Let's Talk! Workshop." It'll be at the international plaza, which is supposed to be a really cool area that offers a lot of information to foreigners. We will be spending time with high school students to help them practice speaking in English. I'm looking forward to it because high school students have quite a large English vocabulary.

This weekend I'm going to The Rising Sun Rock Festival. I'm going with a few other ALTs to a beach and camp out for the festival. I've never been camping before, so I'm not exactly sure how to prepare for it, but I just view it as another adventure. Initially, I just wanted to go see some live Japanese music, but I'm even more excited because some of my favorite bands will be playing.

On Sunday, all of the ALTs have been invited to go to Maruyama Zoo with Higarashi (I think) Junior High School. I kept seeing posters for the zoo, so now I'm really looking forward to it!


By the way, to everyone that has been trying to contact me through facebook:
I'm so sorry, but I can't access facebook from my computer at work. This is the only internet that I have access to, so I apologize for not getting back to you guys. I hope to have internet within the week, so I promise to get back to each and everyone of you ASAP.

Must go to another workshop right now! Bye!