It was thankfully another quiet week for me. I stayed late at Ishimine all week to help the chorus club prepare for an upcoming concert, which meant I wasn't getting home until after 7:00 PM. I did get the new ALT board up at Ishimine to talk about Valentine's Day and got a lot of work done throughout the week. I'm thankful for these quiet weeks now because soon I'll be off again to Tokyo and then Okinawa!
Friday I met Leah, Satoshi, and Caol at a sports bar after work. Japan was playing the UAE in soccer and the bar was serving all-you-can-drink during the game. Satoshi and the other patrons were really into it and the atmosphere was really fun! The game ended up going into over time and even after the extra thirty minutes the teams were still tied, so they moved onto penalty kicks. After five penalty kicks the score was still tied and it became sudden death. Unfortunately, the kicker for Japan missed the goal and the kicker for the UAE made it, so Japan lost. It was a still a lot of fun, though, and we made a new friend. After the game we decided to get dinner at the Turkish restaurant down the steet. Bec and Chris joined us there and Satoshi's friend Mihoko came as well. It was really nice to sit and talk and have dinner with everyone. After dinner I headed over to Orange Door to quickly say hi to Kikumi before going home.
Saturday I made myself a late breakfast and cleaned in the morning before heading over to Marc and Tanya's apartment. Juha came, too, and we spent Saturday playing different games. The first game we played was called Room 25 and it's a little like the movie cube. Our characters are all stuck in a 5x5 grid of rooms and we have to find the exit, but not all the rooms are safe. The goal is to find the exit room, have everyone get inside, and push it out of the maze before time runs out. There's also a chance of someone secretly being a guard and trying to kill us. We played with a lot of the dangerous rooms, so we only won once out of four games, but it was a lot of fun! After Room 25 we played a new game Marc had gotten called Lords of Xidit. It was about fighting monsters and trying to get castles, influence, and money. It was everyone's first time playing and we really liked it! We finished with a game called Lords of Waterdeep, a board game based off Dungeons and Dragons. I really like game and it's always a lot of fun. After the games I headed home for dinner. Megan came over for dinner as well and we had a Marvel movie night! She brought ten different movies, but we only ended up watching two because we talked too long between them. By the time we finished the second movie it was 2:00 AM and we decided to go to bed.
In the morning we went out to meet some friends, Riley and Aoife, for breakfast at a French bakery. We sat and chatted for a while before heading out. Riley and Aoife were going shopping afterwards and told us there was a big sale on, so Megan and I went too. I got a few small things I needed before we all headed home. I met back up with Megan for an early dinner at Kokura station before we headed over to a music hall near Riverwalk. My students from the Ishimine chorus club were performing in a New Years concert along with the Yomiuri concert choir I had seen back in May to help with with the English version of a few songs. There was also a live orchestra, ten or so opera singers, and ten professional ballerinas. The ballerinas also danced with some elementary students learning ballet and it was really cute! Everything was amazing and my students were really happy afterwards! Even my supervisor, Mrs. Tsuruta, sang as part of the choir and had a lot of fun! The concert was over pretty early and after saying goodbye to my students Megan and I grabbed a coffee and chatted before we each headed home.
This week will hopefully be another quiet one. On Saturday I will be hosting a dinner party with some of my co-workers who are interested in learning English. Megan, Leah, and Tanya will also come and we'll have a girls night. I have no idea what I'm going to cook yet, but I'm really excited. I'm also getting ready for my trip to Tokyo. I picked up my shinkansen tickets and hotel reservation last week and I head out on February 7th.
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