Quarantined.....LULz

So, I notice I start almost EVERY post with So...and today shall be no different. Anyway on to the POST!

Summer days have started and my school being the low-mid academic school it is, required all its students to come for about a week half of Houshu. This means optional mandatory lessons. School runs for half days for about two weeks, and seeing as about 80% of the school body is in a club a bunch of students go to club. (Which in Japan includes sports)

Third years aren't allowed to do clubs as they have COLLEGE ENTRANCE exams, which are not like SATs, they are intense crazy things and you have to take one for every school you apply to. So its really intense and they basically have to come to school everyday. I feel sorry for them, also their summer vacation is filled with Sports day planning. Since, the school has about an 80% participation rate in clubs you'd think we'd have a huge culture festival as well, but no. My school does have an 80% participation rate in clubs, but about 85% of that is in sports clubs. I'd say about 9% is band (which is just about the most successful club) and then 6% the rest. So basically so few people are in "culture" clubs, our school just does not have culture festival....sadness. So third years are also hard core training and planning for sports day, since it's the only thing we have.

Where does this lead me, well to boredom. I had some things to do, like making lesson plans, creating this listening test, working on my drivers license, getting a new car, and planning the presentation I'm set to give on the 20th to new ALT's. WELL! That stuff is not that hard to do. I spend about an hour doing each of those things. And my driver's license itself is a practical test which I must go to the center to do it (I've failed once so far, I'm praying it only takes me 3 times >.<)

So, I basically sit in the office DOING NOTHING! It's really bad, I planned to study, to read to do SOMETHING productive, but instead I just sit here doing nothing. Today is the first day that there is no houshu for second or first years, and the school should be alive with students training. But it's not really alive.

Second years were SUPPOSED to go on a training trip (it's basically like camp, but instead of fun it's full of studying) Unfortunately on the second day some students came down with a very high fever. They also found out 3 students who couldn't go due to getting sick were actually infected with the measles. Apparently, since measles has been all but wiped out in Japan, they no longer require students to take the vaccine shots. So, basically a bunch of them are infected little death traps.

They came back from their training/infectious doom trip, cut 2 days short, yesterday. They made the entire school clear out by 3 and hurdled them into the building. All the teacher left to help out, but honestly I've never caught the measles and the last time I got a measles shot was something like 15 years ago. I basically stayed at my desk till enough of them left school to the point where I felt safe.

Now I'm all paranoid, that I'm infected.......ew. This summer has just felt very uncomfortable. I don't get along well with any teacher and as always my conversations with all teachers feel strained and off. It's like I'm not sure what to say or how to react and when I do it naturally they get them same vibe. I am just not meshing well right now. But as today there is no houshu for first years most teachers are not here, and the second years are in quarantine, apparently it's a highy infectious disease something like 90% of those in contact with an infected person will catch it (baring they are not immune. I'm stuck with even less to do.

I should go and play sports with some students, all their sempai's are gone and I'm sure they are just bumming a bit. BUT, I went to the gym after a very long time and massively re-injured my left knee. Popping sounds abound, and its a bit painful to do.....well anything requiring my knee. Ahh, what a silly summer.

I really wish I could concentrate more, but I am just a lazy ass. I blame you internets. With your secret haxor web sites, and anonymous lulz. I did get to see the Simpsons movie and MAN was it AWSOME! It was a fan cam, but still great! I really hope it gets to Japan, I wouldn't mind at paying to see that....but enough of this rant on to MOAR rants....but less schizo.

Notes: AKA skip the rant read this!

Japanese students are really good at carpooling. All the second years came back from their trip and had to be quarantined. So their parents were set to pick them up, keep in mind this was at 3:30-4 in the afternoon so realistically some parents would have a very hard time doing this. So amazingly ton's of kids got rides from friends parents. Car were filled up with 3-4 people, in fact just about every one. And I thought aloud "So this is how car pooling is supposed to work" My old supervisor (who I got on with decently) said "isn't car pooling from America?" And I thought about it, and realized the movement was born in America and thus responded, "Yeah, but no one actually does it" GO AMERICA!

My SUP, wow! So as you know from previous posts, my sister and mom came to visit me. My mom stayed for two weeks and has already left (thanks to her my house is ALMOST clean, and with new and cool much needed stuff I was too cheap to buy), but my sister is here for another two weeks....and she invited one of her friends to stay in my house for a week. Yeah....WTF. Anyhow, this person wanted to play badminton, so my supervisor happens to be one of those teachers who head badminton. I asked him when they practice and if this person could come. He was jazzed and said that the students would be practicing from the morning. I reconfirmed it was at 8:30 because looking at the schedule he had in hand, that I was also looking at, it appeared to me that practice started at 1. He insisted it was at 8:30, so I figured I was just reading this paper wrong. So I show up the next day with said "friend" and lo and behold, their practice IS in the afternoon. Also he is taking vacation time today, so I can't even go ARGH to him. GO FIGURE! Sometimes I wonder if he is just fucking with me, or he is just really this out of it. I somehow lean toward to later, but maybe I just am hoping I'm not that disliked.

Friends: I wish I could go out with my friends when my sister or mom is here, but really they are semi hopeless and I have to cart them around everywhere. My sister was semi complaining about her friend saying, "How inconvenient, and rude it was for him to be coming for an ENTIRE WEEK! Man, should be more shameful about these things" When I said I knew the feeling she of course was highly insulted got angry and said things to the effect of going home etc. Of course shes still here, and of course it's because she's "Family" Family can be inconvenient and they can be irritating, and sometimes I hate to say I wonder why we have all these obligations, bah! Miss hanging out with Yamato, and Shinnae's just come into town but alas I'm stuck.

Car driving: I suck at it! Man I hope I can pass in three go's, cross your fingers and wish me luck!

DOOM: I have scary rashes and really bad skin lately I pray it's the heat...........I REALLY do not want measles.

Another note, I am getting a new car! w00t, it's supposedly all good to go, but I'm a bit sketchy I'll be picking it up this weekend, so need to cancel my insurance get new insurance and all sorts of ugh. Oh well, we'll see how it goes.

AND FINALLY FINALLY!!! I am horribly bored, and unproductive but through some magical bull shit, I am now Blockhead (co-chaired), AJET representative, and presenter at FUKUOKA HS JET orientation. Crazy times...