Day Five

I’m losing track of the days. I have to think really hard to figure out what today is. It’s even worse when I start trying to figure out what day it is at home! Haha This is the end of Wednesday here. It was such a long day. I didn’t think it would ever end. I am sleeping better now. So well in fact that I didn’t want t get up this morning. It was raining and it made me groggy. Today was the last day that I would follow Mandy around. The next two days I am on my own.

We biked to the station. I got a little bit closer this time before I thought my legs were going to fall off. I made it though. It gets easier every time. It will be so awesome when I can write about biking to the station and not even thinking about how tiring it was! We were picked up by a driver who took us to our school. It was a nice school with many children but I was really amazed at the classes. At the other two schools the children were really mild mannered and well behaved. At this school they were very wild and hard for Mandy to get control over. I found out that there were a couple who were autistic and some with severe ADD. Mandy said that this was her most challenging school.

After the lesson we ate lunch with the children. They were really sweet kids. The were obsessed with rubbing me arms. They liked the hair on my arm—but I’m not really a hairy person. J They also liked to touch my nails. One little boy kept touching me on the bottom. Mandy said that he did that to her too. I was like, “Whoa buddy!” Another little boy kept giving me kisses on the cheek. It was a very interesting class.

The teachers threw Mandy a party too during nap time. We ate ice cream and some Japanese stuff that tasted kind of like what I imagine paste to taste like. We played Bingo and musical chairs! It was fun. Three of the teachers also did a dance to Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes. It was so cute.

We left there and went to another school. Mandy did lessons for 1st graders after their regular school. They were making something special for Tara Sensei who will arrive in 2 and ½ weeks. I was so tired at this point. Afterwards we went to the train station to go home. We stopped at Okayama Station (it’s really big) and I got some wheat bread and some cheese bread from a bakery. Then we got back on the train and went to our station.

The bike ride home was not bad at all. I realized why I hate my bike so much…the tire is flat. We are going to pump it up tomorrow and it will feel better to ride on. The internet was waiting on us in Mandy’s room. Mine is still not connected but I can use hers. I have a key to her room. I checked email and then headed to my room. I rearranged the furniture to better suit my needs. I think it’s a lot cuter now too.