First Day of Work

Hey guys, yeah I’ll admit, I’ve been pretty busy with school work lately and I’ve just been extremely tired, and I don’t know why I’m tired. I think I need to get more fruits and vegetables into my diet, or I just need to exercise more besides biking. Anyways, so I thought Saturday would be my first day of work, but I was dead wrong. So here’s what happened, starting from Friday so you all can feel my pain that are in my Quads right now.

Friday:
I decided to scout the area I’m suppose to meet my student, so I went out at 9PM because there’s no traffic at that hour. Mind, you the meeting place is an hour from where I live, and I decided to bike to the area to scout. Knowing that Kyoto City is in the mountains, I decided to go biking anyways because biking is fun and the buses stop running in 30 minutes. I biked to the area, finally found the train station I will meet him at, but upon arrival I noticed there are 2 exits from the train station, I did not worry about it because, they were on the same side of the street and if I miss him at one entrance, I’ll just go to the other one, essentially 50% chance of getting it right. I then biked to a book store and scouted some English books, all these books have super proper English that is rarely used in everyday speech, so I just bought an English vocabulary book. Biked back home, over all the whole night excursion lasted 3 hours.

Saturday:
I woke up really excited and nervous to meet my student and to tutor English. I was still a little sore from Friday night’s excursion out into the meeting place, but it was not something i could not handle. So I leave early to scout out some cafe places, however, things did not go as I expected. When I arrived, I originally thought there were only two exits from the subway station, however, there were five. Yes, FIVE exit places from the subway. If any of you are familiar with Kyoto City, I had to meet my student at 神中丸田町駅　(Jinju-Marutamachi eki), So yeah, I had really had to investigate that matter. I later found out, that each exit brings you to the ticket booth underground, so I decided to wait for the student at the ticket booth. I stood there from 2:45 to 3:15PM. Throughout the 30 minute wait, I checked my email on my phone at least five times.  So come 3:15, I checked my phone again, and only then did I realize, after checking my phone 5 times, that I got the dates wrong. Saturday was May 2nd, 2009. I was suppose to meet the student on May 3rd, 2009. AKA: Sunday. After realizing I got my days mixed up, I left tired. On the way back, i decided to go into Kyoto Imperial Park. That park is really huge and wide. REALLY WIDE. When you guys check out the pictures, you’ll see what I mean. It’s really nice, wide, and quiet park. Inside the park there are three Imperial palaces inside. The Palaces are only open a certain time of the year. yes, YEAR, and I missed it because I didn’t know where the Imperial Palace was located. The three Palaces are as named: 京都御所(Kyot0 Imperial Palace), 大宮御所 (Omiya Imperial Palace), and 仙洞御所(Sento Imperial Palace).

Sunday:

Today finally was the day I get to meet my student and have a conversation class. First though, I went to my good friends’ Brian and Cynthia Adler house for their home warming party. Met at school at 11PM, went up this mountain to their house, there we hung around and it was the first time I was in a Japanese house. It was beautiful and really well furnished, heck I think I’ll spend a night or two at their place to experience a Japanese house. Unfortunately I had to leave early because I biked to Ritsumeikan because I prepared to bike back to 神中丸田町駅 . Finally got there after an hour, and decided to have our conversation outside because it was so nice and we were in front of a river. So I went to the nearest convenience store, which was Family Mart, bought some drinks and snacks and waited for my student. Finally met my student. It was kind of fun talking to my student, I found out he’s a doctor and he’s in his late 20s. We talked about “what to do in these situations” while in America. Taught him how we order at a restaurant, leave tip, and to pay a bill. Lastly I told him where to go when he comes to America. After the lesson he paid me 3,000 円. The rate is 2,400 円　per hour, but he told me to keep the change, I kept trying to give him change, but he just insisted, and eventually I gave in and kept the money. I felt so bad. Anyways, at least he wants to meet up again this coming Saturday for TWO hours. So looking forward to that. Went back to the Imperial park and saw so many dog owners. I just sat there for a good hour looking at all the dogs haha.

Here are some pictures of the Imperial Park:

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