Drummond Plays

I worked for Noriko in the afternoon after school. I really am starting to enjoy working with the children, especially when the lessons are planned for me. Some of the children even remember who I am, which I know I keep going on about but it really is wonderful.

When we came to the end of the second lesson, Noriko announced that there was one more lesson today that she had forgotten to tell me about. Then she announced that she was going to go and do a little shopping and disappeared for 15 mintues. The two girls, Riho (maybe) and another girl (I wish I could remember their names!), that I was teaching look just as scared as I did. She paid me for it, at least! We got on passably, though, and we played a variant of the popular card game Uno for about 20 minutes. That game never ends!

We made more Valentine's cards, writing "I like you" on a piece of paper with a chocolate stapled to it. I wrote one for Tabatha, who is Rio's little sister. She is very cute and kept sticking her head round the door during the lesson. I asked her her name and she answered in English, then she said "thank you" when I gave her a sticker!

We also played "What's the time, Mr. Wolf?," though they actually say "What time is it, Mr. Ulf?" When I caught Daiki, he just collapsed on the floor and burst into tears! I think he thought that I was actually going to eat him! Oops.

In the evening we went to Kurume to "Jimmy's Bar" to hear Drummond play his guitar. He is a true prodigy on the six-stringed instrument. We had a good time and spoke with some Japanese people. Seb and his wife Misako where also there, and one of Seb's friends called Aaron, though he's Canadian so pronounces it "Erun". He does some English teaching and also marries people as a fake priest. Since Christian wedding are not legal ceremonies in Japan there is no requirement to be ordained. It seems to be the newest craze in Japan to have a Christian style ceremony! In fact he is performing the marriage of his wife's sister tomorrow at 2.30pm.

Everyone else left, or went elsewhere, apart from me, Flick, Brendan, and of course Drummond. We went back to Aaron's apartment to listen to some music and drink some wheat tea. It's quite tasty, in fact. We stayed and chilled for a long time and we eventually got in at 4.00am after taking a taxi.