I'm in a much better mood today. Yesterday was so much fun and due to a series of fateful coincidences everything worked out perfectly so that I got to see all of the students I wanted to see. I visited my school and had class during the day with my students. They were so precious. After school I was futsing around on a ukulele that my successor left at school and watching the girls' tennis practice in the gym when their tennis coach laid out a chair for me and told me to give an impromptu ukulele/singing concert. I'm seriously a beginner at ukulele so I felt sort of embarrassed but it was fun. All the girls just sat silently in a line and watched me. Japanese kids, they just know how to be polite. <3 I'm glad my voice has recovered juust enough from my pharyngitis/laryngitis to be able produce vocal sounds that are actual pitches and not just grunts. I played/sang I'm Yours and More Than Words(which I had just learned an hour before....barely.)
After school Cece (my successor) and I went to Onogami Onsen and happened to run into two of our old students who had graduated. Then later we went to dinner at a Chinese restaurant and two other graduated students were able to join us, including my favorite, Konomi. I care about them and their happiness and their futures so so much. I'm really happy I got to see them again. <3
Today I'm on a day trip to Niigata, a neighboring prefecture, for no particular reason other than to do something and to make use of my rail pass. Except I just missed the last train so now I'm waiting an our for the next one. Woohoo!
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