Wendy in Japan

By Thursday evening I am completely beat! My weeks look something like this time wise: Monday - my classroom 1:00 - 8:30 (mostly free in the mornings) Tuesday - my classroom 2:30 - 7:30 (again, mostly free in the mornings) Wednesday - YMCA 9-12 (sometimes, like yesterday, I have to stay until 2)                    my classroom 3:30 - 7:30 (sometimes 8:30) Thursday - my classroom 10-11; 2:00-4:30; 7:00-8:30 (I leave in between classes to go home to                                 rest or to Curves, etc) Friday - my classroom 4 - 7:30 Needless to say Wednesday and Thursday are my longest days. I am mentally and physically exhausted by the end of Thursday. I am so thankful for my super easy Fridays lately. February is going to be a tough month for me! My coworker is out of the office for 3 weeks so I have to pick up a few of his classes and be in the...

I was supposed to have friends over for a 鍋 (hot-pot) party tonight. I`d invited Kazuko`s family and Miki`s family and we were all looking forward to a fun evening eating, drinking, talking and laughing. Unfortunately I have had a headache since yesterday evening so my plans were cancelled. I thought it would be better when I woke up this morning, but it wasn`t. I went to work at 9:00 for a lesson and thought some coffee would help, but it didn`t. After work I decided to suck it up and go to the gym to work out thinking the exercise would clear my head and take the pain away, but it didn`t. After I came home I discussed with Koichi that I would take some medicine and if my head was still hurting around 3:00pm that I would contact both friends and cancel the evening. Around that time I got a message from Kazuko that her son had a runny nose and that he and her husband would stay home because she didn`t want his germs to spread to Miki`s 8 month old baby. So I made the decision then to g...

It`s hard to believe that we`re already 11 days into 2013. I`ve been doing New Year`s Resolutions worksheets with my students here and decided I would make one with them. I found a great template on pinterest that has different sections. Here`s a recap of my Resolution worksheet: Me in 2013 : HAPPY My Top 5 Resolutions 1. Go to the gym 4 times a week 2. Keep my apartment clean 3. Plan meals each week 4. Stay organized at work 5. Be careful about wasting time and money *So far the only one I will accomplish this week is #1. My place is an absolute mess because we got back from LA on January 5 and both went back to work on January 7. Thanks to a combination of jet lag and trying to get back in the routine of work I haven`t had much energy to do housework and have therefore wasted a lot of my free time! In 2013 I will... learn how to use a sewing machine get better at   keeping my apartment clean try to pass level 1 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test make...