Da Co-workers!

I just realized that I hardly have any pictures of the people that I spend the most time with, my co-workers!! Well, Tehani left for Kurashiki three weeks ago, and has been replaced by Kimberly from Miami. All of the students are on summer vacation right now, which sucks for us because that just means that parents are signing up for LOTS of extra lessons at Amity...Especially since another STEP testing is coming up, parents are cramming them all in. Also, a lot of students are sent to "English camp" over the summer, so they have been coming everyday, some twice a day, so they make sure that their child will be ok at camp...IT'S CRAZYNESS!

I've been really good about grocery shopping, and cooking lately...here are some pictures of the simple stuff I can do:

curry

spanish chicken noodle soup

chicken long rice

random pictures:

me sporting my most "nippon-ese" outfit

cucumber ice pepsi-hahaha do you remember when they used to have that clear pepsi? it tasted the same as that...

tehani & chihiro (my co-worker who is a musician/singer, she's the one who is getting me into j-pop and jazz)

i bought new sheets!! my apartment is starting to bore me...

i have too much CLUTTER!!

tehani & satoko (my manager) eating at mos burger!

iwaki beach @ night with beer and fireworks!

me, tehani, and kimberly (picture taken by Miyu, 5 years old)

tehani's farewell dinner

Three weeks ago was our "tokubetsu kenshuu", translates into "special training". When your school meets it's financial goals for six consecutive months you qualify for a two day all expense paid trip. However, because we have two mothers in our group, we could only do a day trip, so we choose to go to Sendai. It was my first time :)


sendai station

cirque de soleil, dralion!

the big top


shopping around the station

search for gyu-tan

inside the fancy shmancy gyu-tan restaurant

keiko & kozue (the mothers)

rina & hiromi (the smokers)

date no gyutan







beetles in toys r us! in the summer, a lot of the kids have these beetles as pets!! i'm like KOOOWAIII YO! (that's scary!) and the little boys yell back at me KOWAKUNAI YO SENSEI! (sensei it's NOT scary).

touch dekiru?? "can you touch it?" DEKIRU YO "yeah i can you" KIMOCHI WARUI! "that's gross!"

kodomo no beeru! non-alcoholic beer in toys r us...they even have it on the menu at some restaurants...TERRIBLE..

my favorite parfaits at yogurt house, oishiikatta!