Flowers

I managed to get to the classroom, find my kanji book and copy my homework into it before the teacher collected them in, which was nice. Apart from that, it was just another Japanese lesson; I don't seem to remember much of it.

I talked to Yuu on the bus on the way in this morning. He is a student, but works in the canteen, washing dishes, some of the evenings. He's really nice, but quite shy. Everytime he sees one of us, he shrinks himself and starts waving madly above his head. His English isn't that good, so I think he feels embarassed talking to us. Despite that we had quite a good little chat - mostly about food.

After lunch I continues my hunt for postcards, but failed again. At least now I know what they're called: e-hagaki. Maybe next time I'll ask someone. I'm going to try Dazaifu, or Tenjin, next as they are slightly more touristy and so are more likely to have one. I got myself some shampoo, batteries and some nice caramel sweetie-things from the ￥100 shop.

This afternoon I was meant to be teaching the first years with Rushen, but Wendy (one of the teachers) came in and told us that we could go upstairs with the second years and make tissue-paper flowers instead. So of course we did that. It was so much easier than teaching, and hence less exhausting. We managed to fill a whole box with multi-coloured decorations. Then Binks and I took a few of the children down to the gym to learn the new G-Ball routine. These are big rubber balls that they bounce on, and they are going to do a performance at their sports day on Saturday. It doesn't sound like any sports day I've ever been to.