No Noh

Had our usual Japanese lesson this morning. We learnt how to say "I want to " which is cool. Means we can actually request things.

昼食を食べたいです。 - I want to eat lunch.
ビールをの飲みたくないです。 - I don't want to drink beer.

Seb's away on a business trip, so we didn't have his lesson this afternoon. Kanashima-san wanted to go to see an amateur Noh group this afternoon, but didn't want to take a day off work. Instead she invited us along to make it part of her work. Unfortunately I couldn't go as I had to teach the first years at Linden Hall with Binks. I think the lesson went quite well: we played "alphabetise the flash cards", which lasted most of the lesson. There are parents volunteering after school from now, helping with the "Christmas" production - which is going to be in February. It means that there are more children to look after in the playtime afterwards, but they don't come to the English lesson as they haven't paid the money. We also had to play outside, even though it had been raining and it gets quite dark before the end.

Had dinner in the canteen with Katherine, Lauma and Felicity, before talking to Nozomi, Akiko, et al. afterwards. Not really doing anything this evening. I've got more online tests to take for IBM in the next week, and Deutsche Bank are going to give me a telephone interview next Tuesday as well. I suppose I should prepare for that.