Nother day, nother school

Tis nice to be welcomed back so warmly to Nishiwaki JHS – my 2nd fave school, apart from the students! All the teachers said hello and seem pleased to see me which has made it a good start to the day. I should note at this point, considering how down on work I was last entry, that it is only work here that gets me down. The rest of my life is a lot of fun and I am really happy here. Helps heaps to have made some good friends to hang with, which happened after I let go of my ‘ I must avoid other foreigners and have only Japanese friends’ idea that I came over with. I wasn’t actually expecting to meet so many other foreigners that I would genuinely like and I was a lot more focused on improving my Japanese than I am now. Things always seem to be better the less set in my thinking I am. one day I will learn this enough to not get set in ways of thinking. In the meantime, at least it’s now taking me shorter periods of time to let go of thought sets.
Now I’m off to study Japanese and pray the soporific effects of textbooks doesn’t set in till I’ve done a couple of chapters!