Day 76 ( Free Food!)- Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Day 76 - Free Food!

No seriously, I`m going to have to stop turning on the computer in the mornings before I go to work, because I`m having too many close calls and reaching to work 5 minutes instead of 10 minutes early. It cannot work. 

The classes that I had today were totally different from what is on my schedule. I have no clue how to address this situation... At each school that I teach, there is a head English coordinator (that don't mean they speak English, they only coordinate the English classes) and they set out your schedule for you. I got the schedule from the English coordinator at this school, but the grade teachers decided to come with their own thing.... I am not even going to make them wiser, because there should be some sort of communication between the English coordinator and the class teachers.

After work, I drove to the post office to deposit about 270,000 yen, in order to make my account look big enough for the German Embassy`s requirements. So in all there is about 317,000 in there now. I really want to hear what they are going to tell me this time. Anyway, I then photocopied the post office book at the convenient store then went back to the post office and withdrew 80,000 yen. I paid an installment on my car so now I owe 51,000 yen on my car. I also paid rent of 48,000... 

All now my company don't take out any money yet for the loan I took from them, but if them waiting on me to tell them, mi sorry... The landlord then said he will buy me dinner today. I ate ika (squid) and also This thing name yakisoba which I really enjoy. He told me that, if by any chance I come to this restaurant, I can charge it to his bill. It look like him don't know him can't tell a Jamaican that....lol.. but no mi a good yute still... Only if mi broke mi wi guh... So yes I found a way how to get free food now :) ... 

The guy that live on my apartment complex did tell me about this little trick, but I wasn't paying him much mind... apparently, most of the old people in my little area, love treating foreigners to food... All when yuh belly full them still offering more...If you can make them laugh that even better for you. And making them laugh is not too difficult for me at all :)

My Land Lord then introduced me to the guy who own the apartment complex that most of the JET ALTs stay on. He was a cool guy, and when Japanese people shaking your hand or telling you goodbye, it going to take about 5 minutes. So after this, the landlord then took me to another restaurant/bar place and introduced me to about 5 older women and the people that own the restaurant/bar. They were extremely excited to see me and they asked me if I know the song about "Deh, mi seh deh yo, daylight come and mi want go home"... So I told them "den nuh muss". Why mi guh seh dat??? 

They now want me to sing it... So I was there singing it and they were clapping me on. Then they found it on the karaoke thing and made me sing it for them again... They were very excited, ooh Japanese people love karaoke, all when them don't have a clue what yuh saying... One of the lady`s that the Landlord introduced me to was the wife of the man that own the apartment complex where most of the JET ALTs are. Her English not too bad, and she was singing the deh yo song with me on the karaoke.

She said she want me to teach her English better and also said she is an acupuncture technician. Boy I could use some of that acupuncture ting... After all this, then the lady that owned the bar dropped me back to my apartment. Not a bad day at all...Usually today would be soccer but I think I going to stop the Tuesday one and go Fridays instead.

Any way laters...