My Worst Day in Japan

Well today started alright. Got up slightly earlier than normal, showered,had a shave so close you'd think I was still 14. Got into to work early, hadmy meeting and then settled down to planning my lesson for 4th period;three hours to prepare four activities. Everything goes well until it cometo transfering the worksheets from my PC to the school PC that's connectedto the printer. I'd left my USB drive at home and had no other way to movethe worksheets across. So I had to get in my car and drive back home, whichtook ages because it had been snowing all morning and the roads wheregetting icey. So, get back to school, transfered the files, printedphotocopied and had them ready, just, mere seconds before the lesson.

The lesson starts well with the first activity going downa treat. That allchanges with the second and third exercises, which were great on paper, butessentially quite dull if the kids don't participate. Which this classdidn't. So the lesson ends scrappily and I go for lunch.

After lunch I have twio hours to prepare English Club. The topic is my team's victory in Saitama, so relativly easy topic which requires nowt morethan the video of our TV apperance, and a news paper article for thestudents to translate. But I got called away for a meeting with anotherteacher for a lesson on Thursday, and the meeting lasted a lot longer than Ithought it would. So, English Club isn't as prepared as it could be but itgoes pretty well anyways, so I thought.

That was until I got back into the office. Tokuma-sensei, who runs EnglishClub, is a bit angry. She's already had a go at the other teacher because she distracted me from my prep. Tokuma starts on me saying how I should have finished English Club and prioritised better.
The I have a meeting with my supervisor. I had to sign another form about my intention to stay for a second year, which I did. But, my supervisor mentioned that, due to budget cuts, I might not be able to keep my job for a second year. Brilliant, especially after i'd just told Helen about me doing a second year on Sunday. then my superviosr starts telling me about things I've been doing wrong and suggestions for how to improve. This was a bit frustrating because it was the first real criticism I:d had and I though I'd been doing a good job, but somehow, at the end of it, my supervisor ends up acting the nicest she has to me since for ever.

Then I go back into the staff room and the atmosphere between me andTokuma-sensei, which is usually really good, it barely warmer than the blizzard going on outside.

So I finish up lesson plans and i leave school at 7.30pm, a good 2 and ahalf hours later than I'm supposed to leave. I'm tired, I'm not feeling too confident with myself and teaching and I;m hungry, so i go for ramen. On the way the road goes under a rail bridge, and with the sprinklers and all the snow, a lot of water has collected under the bridge. i drive through it, andmy car only just makes it out to the other side. The engine dies, quite literally flooded and I'm stuck in the middle of the road going nowhere. I had to wait for 20mins, hazard lights on and cars having to swerve round me, waiting for the engine to dry out and turn over again.
I feel like I've lost my grip on things today, one thing after another has been piling up on me. Is today a one off? Will it stop tomorrow? Has breaking up with Helen had anything to do with this?