From Cairns i sat next to a nice lady, maybe in her late 20s, early 30s with a 6 month old baby, and we talked for an hour or so about different stuffs, travel and japan and jobs and australia and things. I watched better off ted, all about steve and some other stuff im too tired t remember right now. i ate some yummy pork and rice for lunch and a pie for dinner (or afternoon tea or sumin). Customs was really fast and everyone here is really really nice, they picked me up an english and a PE teacher from the airport. I had sushi from a sushi train thing for dinner. But as well as seats they had tables in the middle, and an intercom you can press to order things, and they go around on a number for your table, and there is hot water taps for green tea.
Today i woke up at 3:40am instead of 5:40 because i did not change my phone back 2 hours :S so i wandered around for ages and got ready for like over an hour before realising, then got undressed and went to sleep :) i had 2 pieces of toast with eggs and little yummy sausages, he cooked the toast in the microwave :O crazy technology. I got to school and sat around and explored the school for an hour and a half till morgan got there at 8 20, it was really good to see him again and catch up. i cant wait to be with my host family so i can sleep for longer and come in later with the son who goes here. Today i had 4 classes, where i helped students from year 7 through 11 with english work, the teacher has the easiest job, he jsut speaks english to the kids, has been here like 6 years and knows less japanese than morgan or i, does about an hours lesson planning outside of class, and his classes he just does games and stuff, simple but effective :)
Have you had that moment where someone stops to stare at you for some reason, not a backward glance, a full on, stoping walking to stare and you stare. Imagine that, but 3000 people doing it as you walked around, thats what morgan and i got today, and it is very VERY strange. For one of the 4 classes there were at least 60 kids inside and outside the classroom staring at us, sometimes they will wave and say hello, and when we reply they run away giggling, its very odd. I hope i will make more friends once they get used to me though, i think i won a few kids over today when the rugby team had weights training and i bench pressed 30 kilos more than the captain :) after school every day, including saturday they have a club, like tennis or rugby or something, there is one called a weight lifting club, which involves proper olymipic weight lifting where they hoist it off the ground, then up to their collarbone, then above their head. I went there today after gym and with hardly any instruction, because the coach (who is an australian champion lifter) speaks no english, i lifted 5 kilos more than the best lifter there ^.^ the coach wants me to come back tomoro and train properly hehe. for lunch i had chicken strips, some lettucy stuff and rice which i put soy on, for dinner i went to a really yummy restaurant with my current host mr takeuchi and had egg and chicken on rice with miso soup (the egg chicken is also called the parent child or mother child dish because children are fed it when they are younger). I also bought a converter so i am on my laptop now. I will buy a phone card when i can i havent had a chance to do anything yet.
Today i had a really strange breakfast, it was these strange rice paddy things, with cheese and melted onto them and tomato sauce, like a pizza kinda. The consistency was like glue and it was sooo hard to eat, i hardly finished it, definately not a quick breakfast but a strange and tasty one nonetheless. This was my last night with my staff member Mr Takeuchi and i am looking forwards to staying with my host family tonight and unpacking, i feel like im in a hotel otherwise :P i have no classes to teach today until 10:50 which is good but i am just sitting around surfing the web pretty much. I was talking to the staff member before and there are all kinds of different meaning to thing people do with their cars, like flash their lights and hazards to say thankyou,or to warn of police, and sometimes honk to say hello or thanyou, i have not heard anyone honk here yet, it just doesnt happen when they are annoyed. Want to hear something strange? after spending all that time trying on a finally buying shoes everyone wears comfortable sneakers inside, you leave your business shoes in a locker at the door and wear sneakers for the rest of the day, or whatever you like. They have many vending machines here and there are both hot and cold drinks. You can buy cans and cartons of hot cocoa and coffee and as you shake them they get a bit hotter, like they have just been made :) i will send pictures soon once i buy a card reader and get some yen. There are many beautfiul homes here and it was so cool seeing snow on all the rooftops this morning.
This is from 2 days ago.
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