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Hey all.
Not much new happenin here. Workin. Spendin time with Hiroki. He's mostly toilet trained now. Wakes me up in the middle of the night to go pee. Not fun. Pooping in the toilet. WAAAAAYYYY WAAAAAYYYYY better than in diapers!! Cool. He's got a new habit lately of not wanting to see me when I get home from work. He tells me to go back to work, he wants to spend time with his obaachan (japanese word for grandma). Not nice. Feel like I'm getting kicked in the nuts.
Work has been fun lately. Went to 2 kindergartens this week. Taught 5 year olds who were soooooo happy to see me. They all came up to try and hold my hands, coupla girls were kissing my hands! (Japanese people don't kiss!) The kids were really sweet. The kids at yesterday's kindergarten practiced a dance to show me and then sang a song to me. So cute. 22 5-year olds doing their best to dance. Nice.
Today when I went to the junior hi school (first and only time this week) I found out that our whole school was walking (pissing rain) to another jhs to see a shamisen concert. Sweet!
It was very exciting to watch and the players were really interesting! Most of the teachers (including the music one at my school) haven't ever seen a live shamisen concert. It was great! Lasted all morning, too (including the walking to and from the other school, following the gr 7s who weren't watching too carefully for cars--narrow streets, lots of kids-oh no....) Anyway no mishaps..
Going to go for now. Love to all.