Lesson-free Tsunan

Tsunan have mid-term exams so I had no lessons today. Spent the morning preparing for next week and archiving this years worksheets. Spent the afternoon chatting about and sorting my photos for the last two months. The teachers were particularly impressed with the snow festival and kimono festival in Tokamachi and Niigata ALT FC's victory in Tochigi. All these sets, and more, have been uploaded to my website, along with the new look. Hope everyone likes it. A student also came to the office after the exams and lent me the J-Pop CDs she promised me last week. I've promised to return the favour and burn a CD of English music for her, though I'm not exactly sure what Im going to choose. If anyone has any suggestions please add them to the comments below.

I stopped at Jam on the way home. The Autozam Carol is due for shakken (Japanese MOT) so I have to take it in and use a courtesy car until Thursday. I pointed out the flat tyre and explained the problem I had with the horn. The guy kind of gave a "Oo, that'll cost you" intake-of-breath-through-his-teeth so I'll have to look up the Japanese for "I don't get paid til Friday, will next week be okay?"

The replacement car is pretty smart. It's teh automatic version of Neil's car with electric windows and wing mirrors, central locking and warning chime if you open the door with your headlights on; so no chance of me draining the battery on this car. It also has a radio that works too, well it picks up one station, so I think I'll be driving round to the sounds of Nagano FM for a little while and see if I can pick up any new Japanese.

Right, time to head to Kawaji Elementry School and have soccer practice. Hopefully I should see a lot more people than on Saturday.