Sold, to the short, thin man with the slanted eyes.

Hmmm, so what is new... Well, I am just about done with my self-introduction, complete with some drawings and all. Yesterday, I was pretty much doing that all day. I am supposed to leave every day at 4:15 (or better said that is when I can leave). At 4:10 yesterday, one of the English teachers came to speak to me about what she wanted to do for the lesson plan. I was so upset. There was absolutely nothing to do all day and she chose to wait till right before I had to leave. Then my supervisor began to show me where all these folders were and wanted me to have some copies of the schools’ daily schedules. It was all quite the frustrating experience.

Despite all of the delays, I still managed to go to my house, get a change of clothes and make it to Cristina’s all before 5:00 (because of my new faster, super duper route). I met her direct supervisor and his supervisor. They are doing all they can to make sure that she is taken care of. They documented all the damage and I guess are sending it to the insurance company. They immediately fixed the antenna that day to ensure that she would get the BS channels (still regular TV, but better than the other normal channels). This is actually what I am frustrated about because I ask the office every week for my Internet adapter and every week they tell me to please be patient. So that means that I have already paid for a month of Internet without having it. Then, I told them about my BS antenna and they said that they would put in a memo but it would also have to wait. They said they were sorry. Therefore, I think I won’t be getting English movies for a while.

Well, back to the story, we met up with Laura and headed to pick up Jill from Kushira. Jill’s house is amazing. It is bigger than mine, very traditional, all new and beautiful. She is very lucky and I can see why her predecessor lived there for 3 years. After picking her up, we met Kaz at the 100-yen sushi place just outside of Cristina’s house. It was nicer and bigger than the one in Kanoya, but it did not have as good a selection. We had a great time, and Cristina and I tied for the most plates at 8 a piece. By the way, these are small plates with sashimi and sushi pieces on them, not the huge dinner plates in the States. Everyone wanted to see Cristina’s bungalow afterward, so we headed there.

Once there, we all talked for a bit and began to watch some Friends. Since I had seen these episodes twice this past weekend, I was quite sick of it. However, the reason we began to watch Friends was because I commented on how bad Brad Pitt’s acting was in one of the episodes. If anybody is interested in corroborating my accusation, it is The One with the Rumor in Season 8. He plays an old, formerly fat, bitter, high school friend that visits for Thanksgiving dinner. You can tell that he felt out of place. His delivery was atrocious and his inflections were all off. It took a bit of convincing, but everybody else agreed with me, but still thought that he was too beautiful to care.

This morning I had some important tasks, I had to update this big dry erase board calendar they have in the office of where I am at all times (including weekends). I feel like if I have been sold (by my own self) to the Japanese. I read for them, entertain them, and have to keep them informed of my whereabouts at all times. To be quite honest, I think I am being paid to much money to care.

Well, that is it for now. Somebody please email me to make sure my account is still active. Please. Also, it has been a month. So, feel free to start sending care packages. Need ideas of things to include: pictures (everyone here is curious to see some and we forgot, they can be on CD), burned music CDs (feel free to make your own mix), art (for those of you that are or are not artistically inclined, preferably on any piece of cloth for me), DVDs (can be those that were borrowed and never returned, or, I don't know, maybe Season 3 of Alias).