The spring weather that was so sunny and warm on Saturday, Sunday and Monday (excellent weather for our excursions) took a turn to the cold side for the rest of Golden Week. Tuesday and Wednesday it rained on and off for most of the day and it was cold. Perfect weather for baking and reading books and so we stayed inside wrapped in mofu (blankets).
Benno had bought some minature cookie cutters from the 100 yen shop – a dog, a car and a fish. So I made some spiced biscuits so I could try out the cutters.
The little spiced biscuits in the shape of a car (kuruma), a fish (sakana) and a dog (inu).
We ate soup and had our new found dessert, zensai. A steaming bowl of sweet adzuki soup and mochi works great to warm you up.
It was back to school on Thursday. I went in early at 7.30am to organise myself for the week – why would I do any prep in my holiday time, now? It was still cold and rainy at night so that called for curry and rice pudding for dinner.
Friday was another normal day.. struggling to stay awake. I never felt tired or like I wanted to fall asleep at my desk in Australia – why am I so tired in Japan? Is it because the work day is from 7.30-4.30pm perhaps (I actually only work these hours on Mondays – other days are from 8.30-4.30pm or 7.30-3.30pm)? Time to put fat on the bones and eat chips with gravy and a side salad for dinner.
So, it was dreary and drizzly for the rest of the working week, warming up again on Saturday when we had parents enter the classrooms to observe and see if they want their children going to Gyosei high school. Unfortunately they were scheduled to visit during my science lesson with J-2 (that is, the class with the worst English skills and lacking most in motivation to do any work). Oh well. Good/Bad news is that they arrived late and completely missed my fantastically planned lesson and the parents didn’t enter any of my classes (they entered the poorly planned block 4 classes instead). One of the parents asked an English teacher “my child has buck teeth. Will she be able to learn English? The dentist said French would be okay, but she may not be able to learn English with buck teeth.” How do you reply to that!?
Here’s a picture one of the girls from that class drew for me. The person has blue eyes, so it’s obviously me.
Rina's drawing of me, for me...I think.
Wandering Vegans 
I laughed at the comment of the dentist.
That’s why Remy in Ratatouille had no trouble with French language and became a french chef…….
Look, I have buck teeth, but I can speak English.
Atsu
And the question today from the parents was ‘do you think Chinese is a rough language? What about German and French?’. What are these parents on?!
Ha ha, I don’t think you need to answer their question seriously. It sounds like they are just fond of talking about foreign languages.
Well, do they know much about Chinese language? If they don’t, I don’t reckon it is a good idea that they assume that the language is rough one.