we are worried about you!

So the day begins with me brushing my teeth in the small cramped space known as my shower...and as I am brushing I look down into the tub at the drain and notice there is a lack of bright yellow cork things. To clarify my shower/tub(its not meant to be a shower but I have converted it to one) can not filter hair, or frankly anything other than water. When you wash your hair some falls out and should go down the drain right? well you'd be wrong in my case. I need a plastic sponge thing that fits into the drain and it needs to be replaced about every 3 days. Back to teeth brushing, I look down to see the yellow sponge missing, there are little things that hold sponge in place and after two months of living in japan they have finally failed me. So the sponge is gone, sucked down the drain, and it is know plugging up my shower making it unusable do to water taking like 5 hours to drain. I took a flashlight and look, stick a hanger into the drain, no sign of it..damn... So I leave for work and finish my school day and as I'm sitting in the office I finally remember to tell my supervisor about it. Hell if I know how to fix it. My supervisor is a super sweet woman a few years older than me who after me describing and drawing a picture of what has happened to my bathtub starts freaking out and babbling away in japanese to everyother co-worker in the office. I'm thinking shit now everyone knows about the plight of my shower, then suddenly someone in my office starts making what is the universal sign for plunger. That would be charades version of plunging the toliet. So I say 'a plunger??' they all continue to charade along with the sound effect of doko doko. Then they ask if I have a plunger, I say no but I can buy one at the hundred yen store cheap, and in that brief second of hesitation the co-worker who sits next to me runs away and returns with the nasty office plunger and offers it to me..To apparently take home and use..IN MY BATHTUB.. No way in heck do I want it but after me saying no no no no no no no repeat this several hundred times my supervisor lovingly says they are worried about you and your safety. UGH now I have to take it and the co-worker sets the plunger right next to my desk. Great.....I tossed it into a bag and put the whole thing in another bag. As I'm leaving the office gives a horrified gasp because I put the plunger(it was cover in plastic) in my work bag and they kept saying oh but its dirty dont put it in your bag!! Do you want me to take it or not!! I took it home(yes I walked home carrying a plunger) and fixed it and now all is well. Today everyone asked is your shower fixed and I can smile and say yes it is. Thanks to a stinky office plunger.

New posty

Sooooo, its been a bit and now I have time to write. I have been teaching for two weeks now and have only covered SOME self intro's rinse and repeat....I can officially say I hate myself and never want to speak of myself again.hahahha no really introductions are actually great teaching practice but the reactions of my students are priceless. When I told the elementary school students I have a pool one boy clutched his chest gasped and fell onto the floor. He was wearing his socks so it looked like he slipped. He just laid there babbling away in Japanese... Good times. I thought I had given him a heart attack but he recovered enough to hit the kid next to him. I teach at elementary schools and junior highs in equal parts. Its easy to forget what each school knows, and doesnt know. In all I have 13 schools but its cool because I can attend at least 7 sports days!!!!! Again let me say sports day is the shit and I would have been SUPER competitive if my school had, had one. Hopefully my most recent Junior High will let me try the tug o war. seeing as I weight twice as much as any one around me Ill just lean on the rope and drag 5 people down with sheer weight. I have also begun trying different things in the community. Ikebana was a great stress reliever. Flower arranging(to put it lightly) has so many different meaning here in Japan. It is a system, tells a story, and has a method so perfect my teacher didnt even seem to be able to explain. I got a good reception from my flowers and am going back once a month. Yesterday I went to a martial arts class. It consisted of staff fighting so you know this picture isnt me. I was practicing so I didnt take any pictures. I have to learn all 12 positions, but I am miserable at the first one. When I try the move it looks pathetic. Halloween is already in the works with my juku class. Ghosts, pumpkins, and scarecrows are being built. I NEED to think of a costume.No ideas yet. I am in charge of games and have to make 60 popcorn balls, bobbing for apples, pin the tail on the black cat, and possibly a cake walk. Does everyone remember cake walks???? Best things about elementary school was to win a whole cake. Thats it...Going to Kagoshima for a vacation I dont deserve and gonna partay it up at a volcano and yakoshima island..wooowooo