lazy lazy

hi! man this has been such a lazy weekend. I mean, not counting Sat night. After this busy week of parent observations I took the train to Tokyo and had a night out with some friends I made at my follow up training a few weeks ago. It was great to see them again and spend time with a different group of people. I've made so many neat friends here! We danced the night away and also watched some of the world cup at the first bar I've ever been to in Tokyo, the week of New Years! Anyways that was a fun night and I ended up wanting to crash at like 4 in the morning.. my train back home wasnt until 6:40! but I made it and slept for most of Sunday. I was able to skype with Amy during her graduation party which was awesome catching up with lots of old friends. I miss those kids.

I also got into the show Mad Men so I've been watching that every chance I get, trying to catch up to season 4 that starts in July. Im on season 3 so I've made good progress. I watched a lot of that yesterday. Today I didn't wake up until 1:30 and have done nothing since then. Im going to head out in a bit to pick up dry cleaning though and maybe find a rain coat. Its rainy season in Japan so ..... lots of rain and its very humid.

I finally got to eat REAL (as real as it gets out here) PIZZA! Last weekend I visited travis and zach in shizuoka city and we ordered pizza la  .... it was amazing. but SO expensive. 1 large pie was around 30 bucks. gah. We got 3 pizzas haahha whoops. it was a great dinner and breakfast the next morning after a night of karaoke.

open up with your smile!!!

So i have some cool stuff coming up in July.. maybe for 4th of july we'll have a bonfire on the beach. and I might take a trip to Hiroshima to go fishing with Adam. Its also my birthday at the end of the month and theres goign to be a huge fireworks festival in Numazu and Atami so I want to go see that. AND im going to shizuoka city with a huge group of people at travis's to see the unveiling of a giant Gundam Robot. should be a good month. Hopefully work won't be as stressful now that parent observations are over. It wasn't too bad though. Two weeks of parents being in the classroom.... for my older students though their parents didnt really show up. And my younger kids behaved better while their moms were watching them in the classroom so that actually made things a little smoother. No complaints from parents so thats good!! 

Hope everyones doing well. Feel free to leave me a message

OH also i should add...... I extended my contract. Im now staying in Japan until the end of May. I can't believe I've been here for 7 months now. I'll get some nice vacations out of it so I'm pleased. 

bad news

i have a kidney infection. how does this happennnnnnnn

HAHA

Dude its been 3 months since i last updated this. I just got back from my 6 month follow up training in Zushi which is outside of Tokyo. It was only for a weekend so it went pretty fast. I made some new friends though! and they are all going out in Tokyo in a few weeks so Im going to try to meet up with them. yay.

Ive recently fallen in love with Milk Tea. I think its starting to give me migraines though so i may have to stay away from it. Its perfect after a day at the beach though. Speaking of beaches... I've been to the beach a few times now here in Japan... i had two days off this week (to make up for the weekend of training) and I spent them on the beach in Atami. A few weeks ago I also took a trip to Shimoda which is 2 hours away but has gorgeous beaches. I went with Alex and her bf Yosuke. June is rainy season though and I heard it might start this week. Hopefully that holds off another week so that next weekend I can go to the beach some more.

Soon I have to decide what to do with the length of my contract. Big decisions!
Work is stressful as always but thats life. In April we started a new school year, and I have some babies.. like around  2 years old.. that now have to take a class without Mommy in the classroom. Boy has that been awful. Crying babies everywhere and only 1 Jessica Sensei. Some of them have stopped though and are back to wanting to sing the ABCs every 5 minutes, so thats good.
I think my English is getting worse out here though. Unfortunately, my Japanese isn't getting that much better. Slowly but surely though its coming around, and I plan on doing more studying now that all my TV shows have ended and I have nothing to watch after work.

Anything else? Not recently. Planning a trip to China soon and going to finally climb Mt Fuji too. Lots of good things ahead. Always running around. Never home on the weekends (always traveling!) Life is great here.

I do miss pizza though.

Me and my friends. I realized I love the cute stuffed animals here that looked depressed or aren't smiling. Weird! But Cute!! Kawaii