
Today’s News: This weekend has been one of the longer more dramatic weekends so far. Two Berlitz employees are leaving and they happen to be two I have recently got to know well. Elissa and Alex taught their last lessons (for now) at Berlitz today. I biked to Kanayama this morning before biking to Sakae. Alex, who has taught at Berlitz for 5 years, had a nice little chat with me during our break. It was a nice peaceful chat, just about little things, his moving out and leaving. After class, Elissa, who did training with me, joined Brian and me when we went to lunch at the indian restaurant. We had chicken curry with naan and ice chai. Then, we went to the Kakouzan matsuri located by the shrine. We didn’t stay for the fireworks, but we did visit the stands and the temple. It was quite hot and after looking around we went to the konbini and then Starbucks. We took the train back, and then met up with Matthew, who had a pizza with us. After pizza, I went to Alex’s farewell, and Elissa and Matthew went to Oasis21 to get a drink. At Alex’s farewell party, he got what he wanted. A small little party with 3 staff members and 2 teachers, including myself. We spent a pretty penny eating and drinking, but it was quite nice to have a farewell dinner at the place we really enjoyed dinner at last week. I’ll miss these little chats. I got quite buzzed tonight, but people are going away and doing their own things. Able in Tokyo, Alex in Australia, and Elissa in Germany. Arron who trained us is also gone, and a few other people have been away on vacation, the classroom has looked differently and will continue to be different from this day forward.
Yesterday’s News: I didn’t do much on Thursday. Sat around cleaning the turtle then watching it swim around, what shall I do with you when I move? On Friday I was in Kariya, I ended up doing my lesson 45 minutes early and got a bonus. I ended up leaving a little later though because I had a nice chat about electricity with a teacher who is also great at art! I had dinner with Achim at Saizeriya, then I went to pay some bills before heading to buy groceries. On Saturday I had a lot of classes! After class I went to a Yakiniku place with Alex, which served beef that melted in your mouth. We had a great time and spent a great amount of money. Alex gave me some cash to pay his bills before we headed off.
Tomorrow’s News: A fresh start and Shine begins tomorrow. I also get my keys from Alex during my big break. I will help him with a bit of moving and see him off at the station. He will leave everything in his room to me. I have to ask about renewing my Visa soon.