Humidity
August 05, 2003
I’d by a hypocrite if I’m telling people to update when I don’t do so myself so here it is. I’ve been saving some things over the past few days to say.
I’ll start by saying that summer is finally blooming here in Osaka. It’s probably about 30 or 31, I can’t really tell anymore, but the humidity is just fanning the fire. Humidity is to heat what windchill is to coldness. By the way, I was told that Osaka at one point meant, “Big Hill”. Supposedly at one time in its long history it was a very hilly and marshy area. Now, it’s as flat as many girls were in highschool and the marshlands have been “reclaimed”.
Next on the list, a big HELLO goes to Daniel who MSN’d me wondering what the deal was with my name. He thought it might’ve been something bad happening here. Well, not really dude. Put your heart at rest. Even though MANY things piss the fuck out of me in this country, I still enjoy it here as a whole. Many things in Canada piss me off too but I love the country to death (that’s why I left).
Today I had my ten month observation and feedback. The actual lesson itself was shit. For some reason, the students in feedback lessons happen to be on the deep end of the insanity pool. Basically the worst things you can imagine in a lesson happened. Still, my trainer was uber cool and he knows me enough that this lesson wasn’t representative of my whole, God-like existence. Remind me to turn my ego setting to Medium later. My trainer gave me fair feedback and also some very positive news. Also, I got another unofficial compliment from the customer service area of my office. Through their secret monitoring of lessons (which I suspect is illegal), they take unofficial notes and give positive and/or negative feedback. So far, I got two positive things and no negative stuff… that I know of. Phew.
After work, I met Masa, a good ol buddy from Tokyo and three of his friends. I was late because I thought he was in the Nankai South Tower Hotel but they were actually at the Nankai Hotel. Can’t anyone trademark a fucking name in this place? Anyhow, we ended walking in the sweltering heat and enjoying coffee, Amemura, and a few spiked drinks. Most of their English ability wasn’t very good so I had a good chance to practice my Japanese. I still suck ass compared to their English but hell, I could talk a bit and I understood a fair bit too. Not bad for less than 3 months of lessons I think.
Only 37 days till we go to Hokkaido and 36 days till our three year anni. Time flies but what a ride!
