Physical Entertainment

OK, so I just got back from Uchinoura Junior High, where they decided to have me be their P.E. teacher (a.k.a. entertainment) since half of the children were away at a regional sports event. So, whereas before each class is divided into two, today they were both together to make a full class. I played basketball with the first graders (13 year olds) and volleyball with the third graders (15-16 year olds). I have to admit that I had much more fun than I was expecting. The only downfall was that since I did not have indoor gym shoes I played in my socks. Therefore, by the time it came to play with the third graders, my feet were all blistered up due to the basketball game the period prior. I have to say that school is getting more fun as time goes by. It seems that now the classes are fighting over me whereas before they were all a bit timid.

There is a typhoon coming tomorrow, but apparently people are still moving forward as if it is not. They have canceled school, but I am still required to go to a meeting at 3:00 with the elementary school as if they are still holding class tomorrow. I did ask them to change my appointment at the hospital because I would prefer to not go during a typhoon if I do not have to. Therefore, now it is on November 2nd (my dad's birthday). I am still curious as to why they are having me do it. Oh well, when in Rome...

I am dreading going home now and putting up my shutters. I am really not in the mood to go into the scary wooden utility shed and battle the monstrous spiders. I could try to endure the typhoon with out them like the last one, but they say that this one is monstrous. I will probably just bite the bullet and go.

With luck and good fortune, we will still have power and I will be able to write to you come Thursday. If I write tomorrow, it is because I was forced to come in the midst of heavy rain and strong winds to fill the foreigner-shaped void that would exist in my absence.