Catching up with the Jasonses
This week's wrap-up:
Thursday: Happy belated Canada Day to everyone. It's a good time to celebrate our newly elected Minority Government before the next election is called. After my Japanese class my teacher and classmates joined me at The Hub, a local English pub, for a few drinks. Shockingly, there wasn't any indication of this important day to be seen. Oh Motherland, why has thou forsaken us?
Friday: Last day of classes whooh! Fittingly I gave my worst class their final quiz and I had to give 2 of the students 0's for cheating/misbehaving. Maybe they'll take my advice and try harder next term. Except for having to input students' grades into the computer at school I've got the next 2 months free... with salary... and a bonus. Now that's recouping.
Saturday: 3 weddings in Tokushima today. The first wedding was pretty emotional. The father of the bride was in a wheelchair because he has very bad legs. I was told he was going to accompany his daughter down the aisle but I just assumed he would be in his wheelchair. I was pretty blown away when the chapel's double doors opened and he was standing with his daughter. Slowly somewhat wobbly he escorted his daughter down the aisle. I don't think there was a dry eye in the room. It was quite a sight and it made the whole day feel special.
Sunday: No weddings this day so I spent the day in Osaka with Yukiko and her mum and sister. Her mum was shopping for a new watch and Yukiko & Keiko were acting as advisors/fashion consultants. As most of you know I have the fashion sense of a colour blind carrot stick so I wisely kept my mouth shut and just nodded in agreement with whatever was said.
This is a new shopping/green space project in downtown Osaka called Namba Parks. It's very Jurassic Park-ish.
Afterwards we went to Keiko and Seigo's apartment in Sakai City to have dinner and see their baby Yuka. She is slowly but surely getting bigger and seems pretty happy. It was hard to tell though as she was sleeping nearly the entire time. Talk about lazy.
Monday: Crashed at my friend Dan's place in order to get up at 3 AM to walk to a local bar to watch the finals of the European Cup soccer championship between Greece and Portugal. It was a pretty good game with lots of back and forth action. The tournament seemed a little lackluster though. I mean it can't really be considered a top tournament if Brazil isn't there. Wasn't that a convenient omission!
Thursday: Happy belated Canada Day to everyone. It's a good time to celebrate our newly elected Minority Government before the next election is called. After my Japanese class my teacher and classmates joined me at The Hub, a local English pub, for a few drinks. Shockingly, there wasn't any indication of this important day to be seen. Oh Motherland, why has thou forsaken us?
Friday: Last day of classes whooh! Fittingly I gave my worst class their final quiz and I had to give 2 of the students 0's for cheating/misbehaving. Maybe they'll take my advice and try harder next term. Except for having to input students' grades into the computer at school I've got the next 2 months free... with salary... and a bonus. Now that's recouping.
Saturday: 3 weddings in Tokushima today. The first wedding was pretty emotional. The father of the bride was in a wheelchair because he has very bad legs. I was told he was going to accompany his daughter down the aisle but I just assumed he would be in his wheelchair. I was pretty blown away when the chapel's double doors opened and he was standing with his daughter. Slowly somewhat wobbly he escorted his daughter down the aisle. I don't think there was a dry eye in the room. It was quite a sight and it made the whole day feel special.
Sunday: No weddings this day so I spent the day in Osaka with Yukiko and her mum and sister. Her mum was shopping for a new watch and Yukiko & Keiko were acting as advisors/fashion consultants. As most of you know I have the fashion sense of a colour blind carrot stick so I wisely kept my mouth shut and just nodded in agreement with whatever was said.
This is a new shopping/green space project in downtown Osaka called Namba Parks. It's very Jurassic Park-ish.Afterwards we went to Keiko and Seigo's apartment in Sakai City to have dinner and see their baby Yuka. She is slowly but surely getting bigger and seems pretty happy. It was hard to tell though as she was sleeping nearly the entire time. Talk about lazy.
Monday: Crashed at my friend Dan's place in order to get up at 3 AM to walk to a local bar to watch the finals of the European Cup soccer championship between Greece and Portugal. It was a pretty good game with lots of back and forth action. The tournament seemed a little lackluster though. I mean it can't really be considered a top tournament if Brazil isn't there. Wasn't that a convenient omission!
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