Collating Curry
Just another day in the office. I just realized that this entire week I have been in the office. Wednesday was the only day where I was supposed to visit a school and the typhoon hit, so school was canceled (but I still came to the office). All the schools are either on field trips to cool places like Nagasaki and Fukuoka or are doing some kind of work experience thing. Since Cristina only has one base school, she actually went with her students today to Kirishima (the first national park in Japan that consists of a chain of volcanos on the Kagoshima-Miyazaki border). It should be fun. Apparently it is some great hiking and some great views. After the typhoon we have been getting nothing but clear skies. Temperatures are also beginning to cool but I think it is only because a cold front is passing through.
Please forgive my lack of cohesion between paragraphs or even sentences, but since I try to chronicle my daily events in addition to some random observations, it is sometimes difficult to weave them seamlessly. With that being said, I will skip back to yesterday. Like I said, I was in the office all day and struggled to find something to do to pass the time. (Did you know that the Taj Mahal turned 350?) One of these things that I do in the office for entertainment is help collate. For some reason, there are tons of pretty large xerox machines in this town hall, but none of them apparently collate or staple. Therefore, my office periodically (nearly every day) has some kind of pamphlet or packet they have to put together. They are usually anywhere from 5 to 15 pages long and require stapling. So, my office unites in the center conference table and begin to put together the packets assembly line style. It is quite humorous to watch all these grown ups doing something which looks so stupid. However, I figured that I would join them although I was never formally invited to do something that would actually prove to be helpful to them.
As for dinner, we went to this Indian restuarant that is infamous among ALTs. To be quite honest, I was not that impressed with the particular kind of curry that I ordered, but I did enjoy the nan which I had never had before.
I would like to keep writing some more, but a packet actually just came in and the assembly line is begining to form. Duty calls.
Please forgive my lack of cohesion between paragraphs or even sentences, but since I try to chronicle my daily events in addition to some random observations, it is sometimes difficult to weave them seamlessly. With that being said, I will skip back to yesterday. Like I said, I was in the office all day and struggled to find something to do to pass the time. (Did you know that the Taj Mahal turned 350?) One of these things that I do in the office for entertainment is help collate. For some reason, there are tons of pretty large xerox machines in this town hall, but none of them apparently collate or staple. Therefore, my office periodically (nearly every day) has some kind of pamphlet or packet they have to put together. They are usually anywhere from 5 to 15 pages long and require stapling. So, my office unites in the center conference table and begin to put together the packets assembly line style. It is quite humorous to watch all these grown ups doing something which looks so stupid. However, I figured that I would join them although I was never formally invited to do something that would actually prove to be helpful to them.
As for dinner, we went to this Indian restuarant that is infamous among ALTs. To be quite honest, I was not that impressed with the particular kind of curry that I ordered, but I did enjoy the nan which I had never had before.
I would like to keep writing some more, but a packet actually just came in and the assembly line is begining to form. Duty calls.
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