Story Time

I went to get a cake after lunch with James, Ciarán, and Flick. I had a strawberry éclair. It was quite yummy and wasted some time. The current bus timetable is so very inconvenient. If you are teaching at Linden Hall, you have to stay at the university all day long. I also went for a little walk with Brendan through the English garden where we sat overlooking the lake for a while before going to the Hall.

We arrived quite early, as Brendan was hoping that he could sign his contract, though the Chancellor was busy so he couldn’t. Instead, we went and sat in with the kids as they did their homework. Yūki seemed rather pleased to see me and came running to sit next to me with her Japanese homework. She did it rather quickly before fetching a book, which she then read to me. It was called “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.” She read rather well, though she got stuck on a few words. We didn’t have time for me to ask her questions about it, though, as we had to start our English conversation lesson.We made fortune-telling pieces of origami: those ones with the numbers on the outside and colours on the inside (it was my idea!). We had them write different adjectives under the flaps. They behaved very well and seemed to enjoy doing it. After the lesson, they ran around all the teachers in the corridor and played it on them. I was rather worried as the Chancellor was on the roam and one of the adjectives written on these things was, for example, "rude." That could have been potentially embarassing. I even bowed to him at one point when he noticed me, though I swear he doesn’t remember who I am! He promptly bowed back, bending a good 90 degrees at the waist as if to show me up. I’ll have to bow even lower next time.