First day teaching...and random amazing meetings

So...the alarm goes off at half past 6 in the morning. But that is irrelevant, as my heartbeat was waking me up at 6 am already. I get ready and all just downing a coffee in the hope it will make me genki, and arrive downstairs at 3 minutes past half past 7 (yes, I know it's not correct English...so what? I am not English!). The girl, Lena who is supposed to meet me has not turned up...I wait...it gets to quarter to...and I start panicking. What If I was late by Japanese standards??? I run up and call her, and find out she is the one who is late...she will explain to the school. On the way there we have a right laugh talking about our favourite programs, and what actors we like, apparently I have the same taste as her mother...ooooh dear!

I arrive at the school, and get greeted by the principal and some staff. There are a whole lot of exchanges in Japanese, and I get to look at some rough time frame of what the kids have already learnt. I have less than 5 minutes to clear my head and take it all in, when I get taken to the english room where the kids are already waiting. Lena gives me the go ahead...and I just kinda go.....(OMG..in my head) "GOOD MORNING!!!!"...as I am trying to remember everything I learnt in the training...time flies by and I finish the first lesson! I get a whole lot of feedback from Lena, and then the whole thing starts again. By the end of the 4 th lesson It's all sorted and dusted....I loved that last bunch. They were 4th graders, and one boy seemed to have some obsession with hugging my legs..it was rather cute!

I eat with the teachers, and we have a little small talk on what I studied and famous authors. I found I could actually follow the Japanese translation of what I had said..which makes me haaaapppyy!

On the way back I meet with one of the trainers for this area to chat about how the lessons went, and then I get a call from lena telling me to call one of her friends as she is going out for a meal with some other ALTs! Thus the looong night starts. We go for some food and I meet francisca, and some really ace Australian girls! I then get told that one of francisca's friends is Dj-ing tonight..and whether I was interested. So I meet up with him and go to this really ace bar called speak EZ (seriously go there if you're ever in the area...it's really nice), I meet a whole load of other people who are all lovely..and get lots of meishi and orders to stay in contact!
I got to see some japanese live rap, which was cool actually! It sounds so good!!!! I totally recommend it! What I loved the most was that these guys looked all "street" and tough rapping away, being all gangsta..but when they finished they would bow and thank the audience in that Japanese way. It was sooooo weird but also sooo cute to see! The Japanese rock!
Daniel the guy who was Dj-ing was really good..some funky drum and base going on there, it was odd being surrounded by brightly glowing japanese "gangsters", looking all cool.

After that we went to another club where there was a jamaican reggae night. It was awesome, we met some japanese girls who wanted to learn how to dance with the whole hip moving thing. So Jodie and me were trying to teach them how to dance along the lines of Shakira. They were really sweet girls! I met some amazing people tonight...but I think It's time to finally hit the sheets. It's been a loooooong day!

oyasumi nasai!