Choir

So yesterday, I went up to these group of people who were by the piano. They had a poster up that said something about an Open Mike session so I asked about it. Long story short, I’ll be singing in the first floor of my school next week Friday at lunch :s I’m kind of nervous but I hope I can make it. 

And today I had choir practice and this girl and I will be singing three songs during a Christmas celebration thing at the chapel. I miss singing! Hee. And I went up to the teacher to ask if she can help me practice the 2 songs I’m going to sing: Part of Your World (from Little Mermaid) and All I Want for Christmas is You (the Mariah Carey one but I’m not sure if I can actually sing this as well as she). 

Earlier at work

I was thinking that this might be the saddest Christmas ever. For one thing, I’m not with my family. I will miss dinners with champagne and nonstop chocolate eating marathons. I will miss horrible MMFF movies.

Second, Tana will be leaving before Christmas (and she’s my bestfriend here!) and then Rich will be going home for the holidays too (and he’s my best guy friend here). Hrr. I will be bawling my eyes out during Christmas. 

I had to work today. It’s been so cold lately. Around 9 degrees Celcius.

Oh. I let my students earlier watch a Friends video clip. The Ikea one. Look it up. 

I should never have stopped playing softball

I played catch ball with a bunch of Japanese guy and a girl. It was fun. I thought I would be able to join in the game but maybe next time, eh. At least I got to move around and bask in the sun! 

Nyanyanya?

Dumdidum

I don’t know why but I feel like my boss is giving me less shifts. But I don’t think that it’s only me. Thapa asked the boss why she has less shifts than before and she wouldn’t have enough money for her tuition fee. He told her that she has her other job and all. But from what I heard, she doesn’t work a lot at that job. 

I got my salary the other day — ¥44,750! Huzzah.

Now to stop myself from spending it. These days, I buy food. I’d make some but time x effort. I’d rather work harder, don’t you think? 

Earlier today, Krystal and I gave this presentation on the Philippines. Sucky. Pft. 

NGU School Festival

Since I invited Kenji to come to school today, I needed to hang out with him and Sakiko and tour them around school. I introduced them to all my exchange student friends and stayed close by while the rest of the exchange students give their presentations about their respective countries. 

My presentation’s actually tomorrow and I haven’t prepared much for it. I mean, we have our presentation ready and all. Powerpoint and everything. But I haven’t made my script yet. Oh well. We’ll probably just play some videos and sing “Bakit Ngayon Ka Lang.”

AHAHAHAHA.

I keep putting off posting pictures at Multiply. I don’t use it that much anymore. I do, however, post my pictures on Facebook so… 

NGU’s school festival is today and tomorrow. And although the place is pretty small compared to UP’s, it’s kinda the same — with food and everything.

Tralalala

So I’ve been looking for a music club here at school. Like a club that sings a LOT. That way, I get to meet new people and sing with them too. Anyway, so Sachiko helped me find this club that sings gospel music. It kind of reminds me of FCCY. I hope to god that they won’t be all preachy. I HATE preachy people. Can’t people just respect whatever you believe in without having to criticize it? 

Tell you how that goes. 

No seriously

I hardly have the time to update my online profiles and shiz. I dunno why. But I guess I finally weaned myself off the internet — I now enjoy human company more. 

Everyone should be rejoicing right now.

Just probably not my mom since I don’t get to update her on my Japan life as much. Hihi. Sorry mom. I still love you. 

Yesterday night, the boss called me up and asked me if I can cover a 9-3 shift for today. I said yes cause this is my chance to redeem myself after the incident 2/3 weeks ago. 

I learned how to make miso soup. 赤だし (akadashi) and かに汁 (kanijiru). That, and put rice into a tray. Well, that was a lot of work you know! I had to oil the tray and then wait for the machine to make the rice into this certain shape. Ahaha.

But yeah — as much as I like this old lady, 辻さん (Tsuji san), she can be quite the nagger. Oh my god. For everything I do, she has something to say. I talked to some people about their jobs and bosses and stuff and reached a conclusion — people just don’t know when to shut up sometimes. 

All night long

I’m not even surprised — Eyobe cut all his classes today. Lol. We’ve been talking about how our grades here don’t affect our grades back in our countries and it’s kinda blech to even put in all that effort. But then again, my pride keeps me from not letting go of my lessons here.

Jampacked day is how I’d describe today.

Class started 9:10. At 10:40, I went to meet Rich in the library to take his Math test (I knoooooooow D: I’ll ask him if he actually knows the stuff).

After that, I studied for my quiz for my class at 13:20. That Math test took me a long time cause I had to study one whole chapter’s worth of Math. Oh logarithm, how I’ve missed you.

Class until 14:50. The class was more chitchat than anything. Our long test is next week Tuesday and we kinda didn’t want to learn anything new before then. 

I had to teach English at 15:05. And then after that, off to work until 21:00. Got home at 22:30 and studied (plus organize my notes) until 00:00. 

After which I talked to my sister for a little more than half an hour — ranting about really random stuff.

P.S. Panic at the Disco’s second album is pure trash. In one of their songs, one of them said, “Sup!” near the end. WTF.

At all

I’ve been downloading new songs recently. I’m getting bored of the old stuff on my playlist. But at the same time, I hate weeding out songs that I don’t like. It’s just too much of a hassle. Meh. 

Every week, I have to teach an English class twice a week. Fourth period of Mondays and Tuesdays. 

Out of my 6 students on Mondays, only 1 came.  They only came to my class once before and already they don’t want me as their teacher. Boo. 

Well, I guess you lose some. 

So I just got a bunch of the exchange students to join in on my class. And it was fun. Too bad for the ones who didn’t come in. 

I don’t know why but I didn’t have that much energy today. I was doing homework! Can you imagine?? That, and organizing my very messy stuff. Boo. 

And my American friend is right. I don’t know why I’m helping him with his Calculus. I guess it’s for all the times that people back in the Philippines have helped me with my homework. He has to take an online Math test tomorrow. We’re going to meet up at the library during second period. 

And now off I go to my lessons.