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another update
Nov. 22nd, 2010 09:06 pmAfter we left the Cat cafe on Sunday we went shopping for a bit. I bought a bunch of materials to make Christmas cards and I will talk to my schools next week about supplies for the kids to make their own cards.
Then we went to lunch. We found a restaurant called Shakey's that is supposedly an American Style pizza place. Well, they did have pepperoni pizza and hawaiian pizza, so I guess it is sort of American style... but really that was about all that was American about it. Lunch is apparently an all you can eat buffet. Pizza, pasta and fried potatos. It was really good! I got a large drink, (the medium is what is served at most restaurants in Canada) and had pepperoni and double cheese pizza and some pasta and potatos. I also had a few pieces of one of the dessert pizzas. I had banana, custard and chocolate pizza. Chelsea had some sort of custard pizza with a giant marshmallow on it lol. It looked like a blob of melting vanilla ice cream, but it was a marshmallow.
And there was the "Big Parfait" that you could order from the menu. It was $18, and absolutely huge! There was no way we would have been able to eat it, even between the four of us! What do you think?
They serve it in a beer pitcher!!! Unbelieveable!
After lunch we headed back to Ueno to walk around the park a bit then we caught the train back to Iwaki. Chelsea and I were seated one behind the other on the train, and the gentleman beside me offered to trade seats with Chelsea so we could sit beside each other :) We talked for the first 40 minutes of the ride home, then slept off and on the rest of the way. It was an awesome weekend.
Today we had a meeting with the BOE. We had an interview/Discussion today to determine for sure if we want to stay next year, and if we are not able to stay in Iwaki, would we be willing to move to another area? As of right now, 4 people are going home for sure, and 7 people will be cut from the program. But it looks like they may be able to move those 7 people to other cities. It may mean changing from Elementary school teachers to Junior High school teachers, but we would still be in Japan. Just not in Iwaki. I told them if it's not possible to stay in Iwaki then I would be willing to move, but I would prefer to stay here.
Here are some pictures to go with my last update.
This is Chelsea, me and Susan outside the entrance to the Ghibli Museum. This is the autumn leaves in the park. So pretty!
This is at the cat café and me standing on the roof of the Ghibli museum next to a giant robot from Laputa.
Then we went to lunch. We found a restaurant called Shakey's that is supposedly an American Style pizza place. Well, they did have pepperoni pizza and hawaiian pizza, so I guess it is sort of American style... but really that was about all that was American about it. Lunch is apparently an all you can eat buffet. Pizza, pasta and fried potatos. It was really good! I got a large drink, (the medium is what is served at most restaurants in Canada) and had pepperoni and double cheese pizza and some pasta and potatos. I also had a few pieces of one of the dessert pizzas. I had banana, custard and chocolate pizza. Chelsea had some sort of custard pizza with a giant marshmallow on it lol. It looked like a blob of melting vanilla ice cream, but it was a marshmallow.
And there was the "Big Parfait" that you could order from the menu. It was $18, and absolutely huge! There was no way we would have been able to eat it, even between the four of us! What do you think?
They serve it in a beer pitcher!!! Unbelieveable!After lunch we headed back to Ueno to walk around the park a bit then we caught the train back to Iwaki. Chelsea and I were seated one behind the other on the train, and the gentleman beside me offered to trade seats with Chelsea so we could sit beside each other :) We talked for the first 40 minutes of the ride home, then slept off and on the rest of the way. It was an awesome weekend.
Today we had a meeting with the BOE. We had an interview/Discussion today to determine for sure if we want to stay next year, and if we are not able to stay in Iwaki, would we be willing to move to another area? As of right now, 4 people are going home for sure, and 7 people will be cut from the program. But it looks like they may be able to move those 7 people to other cities. It may mean changing from Elementary school teachers to Junior High school teachers, but we would still be in Japan. Just not in Iwaki. I told them if it's not possible to stay in Iwaki then I would be willing to move, but I would prefer to stay here.
Here are some pictures to go with my last update.
This is Chelsea, me and Susan outside the entrance to the Ghibli Museum. This is the autumn leaves in the park. So pretty!
This is at the cat café and me standing on the roof of the Ghibli museum next to a giant robot from Laputa.
