Days 1201 - 1207 Sunday, July 3, 2011 - Saturday, July 9, 2011 (Fire Works Festival)
Days 1201 - 1207
Day 1201 { }
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Should have visited a church with a friend today but he was out too late last night. So instead I pretty much stayed in and updated my blog.
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Day 1202 ( Slight Hearing Trouble )
Monday, July 4, 2011
Because the English coordinator told me to stay until 3:30 last Friday, I stayed. And as expected, no teacher said even a single word to me about planning the next lesson. This proves that they just really don't want to see me leave earlier, even if I have nothing to do. My other schools are fine, but not this school it seem.
For about 2 weeks now my left ear has been ringing almost none stop. Most times I don't notice it, but if I stop and think for a while, it is very much there. So I went to the doctor today to check it out. They performed some sort of hearing test and the doctor said that I am having difficulty picking up low frequency sounds. I hear them but I respond to them very slowly. Lord help mi....
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Day 1203 ( Twisted Ankle Again )
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The English supporter at one of my schools, followed me to a school nearby my apartment today to play football. Three teachers who I work with also came to play football there. In all about 11 of us went. All teachers from elementary schools nearby.
At one point I was dribbling towards the goal, then I suddenly twisted my left ankle. I had to sit and watch for the remaining time. They called me to try again but when I kicked a ball, the pain was too much. A teacher from my main school who was also playing, offered to drop me back to my apartment. It was then a task to walk up the stairs.
Something similar to this happened to me last year on October 7, 2010 while I was in Niimi, Okayama, playing my usual Thursday football. That time it was my right ankle. And no that picture is not my ankle.
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Day 1204 { Late for work 1st Time in Yokohama... }
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Arrived at work about 4 mins late for my class because I had to hop to work on my now swollen left ankle. Then the stairs at school didn't make things any easier.
All these things happening to me just before my summer holidays.
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Day 1205 { Bad stare or am I just thinking? / Green Bug }
Thursday, July 7, 2011
My ankle is still hurting but I managed to get to work early today. Sometimes I get the feeling that some persons at work are giving me a bad stare, but I can't know for sure. Like today I got that feeling from the vice principal. Again it could be me just thinking stuff.
I saw this bug while going up the stairs to my apartment and I took a picture of it. Normally when I see these bugs, they are black... But this one is green.... Radiation???
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Day 1206 { Potential Student }
Friday, July 8, 2011
I got my first potential evening student today... Yeah!!! After giving up and thinking that I had no chance whatsoever with most Japanese people knowing little to nothing at all about Jamaica. This was further proven last week when a grade 6 teacher, even after teaching his class for 3 months, suddenly asked me "Jamaicans speak English??" ... Yeah so it is a bit of a challenge to get evening students, with this area populated by foreign teachers from England, The US, Canada and Australia.
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Day 1207 ( Fireworks Festival )
Saturday, July 9, 2011
My friend invited me to a fireworks festival in an area nearby known as Kurihama. This is near to a US naval base in an area known as Yokosuka. Thousands of people gathered from all over the prefecture to see 1 hour of fire works.
Sunday, July 3, 2011 - Saturday, July 9, 2011
Day 1201 { }
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Should have visited a church with a friend today but he was out too late last night. So instead I pretty much stayed in and updated my blog.
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Day 1202 ( Slight Hearing Trouble )
Monday, July 4, 2011
Because the English coordinator told me to stay until 3:30 last Friday, I stayed. And as expected, no teacher said even a single word to me about planning the next lesson. This proves that they just really don't want to see me leave earlier, even if I have nothing to do. My other schools are fine, but not this school it seem.
For about 2 weeks now my left ear has been ringing almost none stop. Most times I don't notice it, but if I stop and think for a while, it is very much there. So I went to the doctor today to check it out. They performed some sort of hearing test and the doctor said that I am having difficulty picking up low frequency sounds. I hear them but I respond to them very slowly. Lord help mi....
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Day 1203 ( Twisted Ankle Again )
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The English supporter at one of my schools, followed me to a school nearby my apartment today to play football. Three teachers who I work with also came to play football there. In all about 11 of us went. All teachers from elementary schools nearby.
At one point I was dribbling towards the goal, then I suddenly twisted my left ankle. I had to sit and watch for the remaining time. They called me to try again but when I kicked a ball, the pain was too much. A teacher from my main school who was also playing, offered to drop me back to my apartment. It was then a task to walk up the stairs.
Something similar to this happened to me last year on October 7, 2010 while I was in Niimi, Okayama, playing my usual Thursday football. That time it was my right ankle. And no that picture is not my ankle.
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Day 1204 { Late for work 1st Time in Yokohama... }
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Arrived at work about 4 mins late for my class because I had to hop to work on my now swollen left ankle. Then the stairs at school didn't make things any easier.
All these things happening to me just before my summer holidays.
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Day 1205 { Bad stare or am I just thinking? / Green Bug }
Thursday, July 7, 2011
My ankle is still hurting but I managed to get to work early today. Sometimes I get the feeling that some persons at work are giving me a bad stare, but I can't know for sure. Like today I got that feeling from the vice principal. Again it could be me just thinking stuff.
I saw this bug while going up the stairs to my apartment and I took a picture of it. Normally when I see these bugs, they are black... But this one is green.... Radiation???
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Day 1206 { Potential Student }
Friday, July 8, 2011
I got my first potential evening student today... Yeah!!! After giving up and thinking that I had no chance whatsoever with most Japanese people knowing little to nothing at all about Jamaica. This was further proven last week when a grade 6 teacher, even after teaching his class for 3 months, suddenly asked me "Jamaicans speak English??" ... Yeah so it is a bit of a challenge to get evening students, with this area populated by foreign teachers from England, The US, Canada and Australia.
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Day 1207 ( Fireworks Festival )
Saturday, July 9, 2011
My friend invited me to a fireworks festival in an area nearby known as Kurihama. This is near to a US naval base in an area known as Yokosuka. Thousands of people gathered from all over the prefecture to see 1 hour of fire works.
Comments
I feel bad to learn that your ankle and ear are not good.
You showed us the photo of the green bug in this week's post.
It is "kanabun". Some of them are black or brown but some are green like the one you saw. Sometimes it's shining green.
No worries!
How do you communicate with them - do you have a translator?