A Week Full of Training

Just a quick update before I totally crash:

I just finished my entire week of training! Yay! 29.5 hours of sitting in a classroom with my peers doing activities to learn the do's and don't's of being a teacher with the company. Made some nice friends as well, one of whom I'll be helping unpack tomorrow when she moves into her new apartment. :D

Training was fun, though the last two days were exhausting. It really doesn't help that we had to not only demonstrate different parts of a lesson, but there was a point where we were going through each group one right after another until we were all done. My brain felt like mush today.

We also had our physical. Apparently I'm really healthy, because the doctor took a look at my stats (my blood pressure was 127) and immediately said "Ooh! This is good!" (But in Japanese, of course). It made me feel a lot better about my ability to take care of myself. Now it's just a matter of time before they finish up their report to tell me that I'm overweight (I already know this and I'm working on getting to 25 bmi). But anyway.

Oh! I made my own flashcards of fruit last night for a demo lesson I did today with a partner. I'm really proud of the flashcards because I did happy-faced fruit and they turned out ridiculously adorable. I got a lot of compliments on them too. :3

I was going to go out drinking with a bunch of my fellow teachers tonight, but after having to starve ourselves before the physical, and after finally being able to eat, I really wasn't in the mood for staying out late drinking. At least all of us can keep in touch, so hopefully everyone will be able to meet up to go drinking again in the near future. Some of my friends couldn't go because they couldn't afford to go. I'm really looking forward to a chance to go drinking with everyone. It sounds like a lot of fun.