first of all, apparently the rainy season is over! Hard to tell really. I only know because one of my coworkers told me. Of course, we still had thunderstorms yesterday and today... What can I say? Weather in Japan is weird, man.
Speaking of which, I'm still waiting for it to get properly hot. Last week we got to the point where I had to turn on my AC a couple times at night, but the heat broke a couple nights ago and it's really nice now. I do admit that if I wasn't in the AC at school all day, I might be more tempted to turn it on at home.
I finally got a library card, and for the past couple months I've been making regular trips. Lucky for me, the library is right down the street :) I'm working through the Little House books, but the library doesn't have all of them :( Mom and my sister are coming out next week, so they're going to bring me the missing book. When I finish all of those, I'm starting on Harry Potter.
As school has been winding down, I've also been entertaining myself with movies. This week the video rental place had a special- 5 movies for $5. So I have some of my favorites like the Mask of Zorro and Step Up. ALSO, just watched 3 Musketeers. Oh my goodness, totally awesome! (As long as you don't expect it to be too close to the book). I mean, there's airships, dueling on the roof of Notre Dame and Orlando Bloom is the most hilarious bad guy ever. What more do you really need?
At home, I didn't go to the movie theater very often, but I was looking at upcoming releases and found out that for each month through the end of the year, there is one movie I want to see. The schedule is something like this:
July-Brave
Aug- Kenshin
Sept- Mirror Mirror
Oct- The Lorax
Nov- Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Dec- (Of course) THE HOBBIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (fangirl squee!!!!)
I suppose instead of rambling about movies, I should actually tell you something about my life. Well, this month was exams and special classes. Have I ever told you about special classes? They're random half days of classes where the things you teach aren't graded or on exams or anything. Apparently we're all in it for extra kicks. Anyway, in my classes we do fun things like watch movies and play games. Then, the kids get to go home and we teachers stay and go to meetings.
I didn't realize how stressed I was until I got a chance to relax. As I've hinted at before, this term has been super busy and I often didn't leave school until really late, plus different things kept me busy on the weekends (bike trip, Japanese lessons, getting my computer replaced...), so I didn't get much down time. One of my classes is leaving to do study abroad in various places, so I should have more time next term. At the very least, I hope I can leave school at a reasonable hour.
I'm growing a bunch of herbs to use in my cooking. Not that I ever get a chance to cook...
This one time I went with some friends rafting down a river
And another time I wore my first yukata
That's about all I can think of for now. Maybe there will be more tomorrow.
