Mobile Phones

We got our post office accounts this morning. There is a nice blue sleeve with the colourful passbook inside. I'll take a picture of it at some point. We also learnt how to tell the time this morning. Though the bus driver was trying to tell me when the bus was going to leave this evening and everything just went out of my head. I hate it when that happens. There have been so many situations when I could have understood something first time, or could have said something in Japanese, but have just forgotten everything. The sterile class environment is very different to the outside world.

At lunch, Ikema-sensei brought three hairdressers to meet us. It was very random. I think that, just maybe, they're trying to get our business. They even left us some strange snacky things in the office. Little do they know that we've already got a discount at Tony & Guy's from the modelling woman.

Ikema has also invited us all to a jazz concert a week on Sunday. He likes "to take us" and "to enjoy". Mmmmmm.... nice!

Then instead of our usual culture lesson, the man from AU (a mobile phone company) came. We all bought phones in the end (apart from Ciarán, who wasn't there) and we all got the same tariff. He brought along 10 different handsets for us to choose from, but it turned out that five of them didn't qualify for the student discount scheme, you had to pay extra for one of them, and three of the remaining four were the same model in different colours. So we're all having similar phones as well! We should get them tomorrow.

Ciarán forgot that he was supposed to be teaching today, so Drummond had to cover for him. I taught the first years today with Binks again. I had a much better time than yesterday. We did different occupations, and discussed them, and also a little bit of telling the time. I think they quite enjoyed it - I did!

It's surprising the number of injuries that they have. If they're not getting injured in our lessons (one kid had his hand stepped on today), they seem to already have plasters everywhere. The nurse actually kept popping in to look at people's previous injuries.