Mexican Potluck

Last night was pretty fun. After work, I went over to Nio. It’s a small town that’s tucked between a small mountain and the ocean. Jeremy, a returning JET, lives there. He invited a bunch of people over for a Mexican potluck. Mexican food, by the way, is difficult to find here. I ended up just getting some chips that had a taco on the front of the bag and which ended up being pretty good and some ground beef because I figured tacos would be involved. We had a good ole time with a nice mix of Japanese and non-Japanese people. Later in the evening, we went down to the seaside and walked around and found a group of Japanese girls who had cooked out and were playing with sparklers. Jeremy had his guitar and the one song they all knew that he could play was “Yellow Submarine” and that was pretty fun. One girl knew Radiohead and he played a song or two. Lots of pictures. We cabbed it back to Takuma and Matt (the other Takase JET) and I hopped the train for home a little after midnight.

I’m not used to all this going out and all. Especially on a school night. Somehow, I managed to make it in and I was only a few minutes late. I’m not sure how things work here, but I’m not sweating me being late, because other teachers mosey in around 9 and the vice-principal came in around 10. I may not be able to resist a nap today, especially if the cloud cover dissipates and the sun steams things up. Yesterday it was 36 degrees here. But I heard back in Georgia it was 40 degrees or so. Yes, this is Celsius. I’m trying to get used to it. I don’t even know the conversion really. I just know that if my AC is on 29, it’s bearable, 30 is too hot, and 26 or 27 lets me sit very comfortably.

I finally got an internet signal on my computer near my apartment sitting on a bench outside around 1am last night. So I was able to transfer some pictures I had emailed to myself from the school computer for my self-intro PowerPoint. It really is a pain. You can’t transfer data from the school internet computer to another computer via a network or dump drive. But it let’s you email attachments. It’s just my home internet isn’t consistent.

Well, I think I will do some Japanese studying.