When it rains, it pours.

Of all the bad luck!

I feel sorry for all you kids who had your "undokai" sports festivals today... better luck tomorrow!

For our 6th grade students, this is the last of these events before going to junior high school next year. I hope you make some good memories tomorrow (or Monday).

28

I'm 28 years old today. All of our elementary and preschool students will have to use a new number for me from today until September 19th, 2008.

When Is Fall Coming?

I thought we had finally hit autumn, when the weather suddenly gets hot again...

I'm looking forward to a nice, cool October and November. December won't be much fun, but at least there's Christmas.

Acoustic Guitar

When I was in high school, I played electric guitar a lot. In college, I also played electric guitar. When I moved to Japan, I couldn't take more than one guitar. I decided to take my acoustic guitar, since I could use that in my English classes. Therefore, I didn't play electric guitar for awhile after I moved to Japan. Nowadays, I have an electric guitar and an acoustic guitar both in Japan, so I can play either one. The acoustic is on the wall in the classroom. The electric - well, I never show that to my students. :)

Political Shows

I really liked political talk shows back when I lived in the US. I still try to watch them over the Internet now, but I'm not really as interested as I used to be. Nowadays, I try to spend a bit more time following Japanese politics - but there's a lot to learn! For example, the Prime Minister can be replaced whenever politics dictate, as opposed to in the US when Presidents always have 4-year terms. The constant resigning of cabinet officers is new to me too, although it happens to resemble the current US administration. Perhaps these administrations are both unique in that respect. I wonder whose will last longer?