Orinji Ranji

For those of you not in Japan, there is this song that is sweeping this nation. It is by Orinji Ranji, but is really Orange Range. The song is called "Hana," or 'Flower.' All my kids sing it all the time. It is uber popular. It is weird because the band is really a punk band, but has a few 'pop' songs on their new CD. Hana is a mixture of punk and pop. I think the song is good, but not spectacular. Maybe I just need to listen to it more. A teacher at my Junior High gave the lyrics and I am suppose to memorize them and sing the song next week. That is a tall order, because A: I can't sing B: It is a little punkish and I can't sing that fast; and then C: It is all in Japanese. I know a few words, but I would just be memorizing mostly sounds. So I dunno.
I am so tired today. I get really tired every Friday. For my classes today at Kasamatsu Elementry School I was scraping the bottom of my energy barrel. I got a headache after singing "Five Little Monkeys Jumping On a Bed" just before lunch. I told a teacher that my head was "Itai" and he gave me some medicine. Ok good. So half way through lunch I started to feel really dizzy and drowsy, it fell on my like a ton of bricks. One moment I was asking a kid to teach me some Japanese slang, the next I felt like I was going to fall of my chair. I figured the medicine was the cause of it. So a cup of coffee later took care of everything and got a second wind and performed "Twist and Shout" for my last class. I then spent the rest of the afternoon trying to wind a small Japanese metal top. You are suppose to wind this little thing with a piece of sting and then fling it on to the ground. It is pretty cool. I can sort of do the flinging, but the winding of the top takes some skill. I tried to for like and hour and a half until my hand was aching. So then I went to the Board of Education, as I am suppose to everyday before I return to abode. I have to do this in case they have something to say to me or give me. Sometimes I have mail too. I get nearly everything sent to the office. So yeah, exciting.
Lunch was nice today. The provided school lunch, or Kyuushoukuji, is my staple diet. I can't really cook, I hate going out of my to eat at times. Plus the lunch is cheap and good. Today was a beef soup/stew, rice(which they eat the nearly every meal, even breakfast), Milk(every lunch), and some sort of pickled onion something salad. Salad thing wasn't so great, but I ate it. I clean my plate everytime. Except a few times when I am suppose to eat the fried fish's head or something. After lunch everyone has to fold their milk box a certian way and then put it in a special garbage can. However, Kasamatsu Elementry school makes you tear the box open, wash it, and then toss it. I dunno, the last few times there I forget they are the exception out of my 4 schools and sometimes fold my milk box instead of tearing it open. Like I did today, but I remembered before anyone said anything to me.
Yesterday, I went to the junior high. I taught two classes instead of my usual one because I didn't teach on Tuesday so I made up for it with the 1st grade(7th grade in the US) yesterday. After school I followed a fellow teacher to Gobo(a 40 minute drive) where he helped me purchase my train tickets to Tokyo. The tickets cost me $304 instead of the estimates $360 so that was a bonus. Afterwards we ate at a nearby tea house and talked about cars, or tried to in broken Englisha nd Japanese. He owns a BMW 328i. It is 6 years old. He got a ticket once for going 200KPH on the highway, which I think is about 120 MpH, correct me is I am wrong I just don't remember. His ticket was only $230 for going that fast, or maybe that was a ticket for something else. Anywho I am thinking of buying a PS2 here so I can play Gran Turismo 4.

So yes, have a good weekend