I was looking through some photos in Picasa from Japan and found this photo of a product in the convenience store beside Yotsukaido church…
And it’s “Extra cool!”
Things have been going alright recently… I have been feeling a little stressed about the upcoming exams, coupled with the proposed start of the english classes looming on Monday. That stress has been nicely spreading itself through all aspects of my life as you might expect throwing up worries and concerns about all kinds of things! But the exams should be ok…
The english is scheduled to finally start on Monday. We visited a couple of houses last month (wrote about it a few entries ago… been a slow blogging month!) and they expressed a bit of interest in classes with a polish helper to help them understand and explain things more clearly than the all english classes do. I can fully understand this, sometimes you just can’t grasp a concept, particularly in the midst of the tiring effort of listening and understanding, unless you hear it in your own language. There should also be a lot of parallel between english and polish structure to draw upon I would think. So yeah, should begin on Monday evening… The only thing is that they wanted to have a daytime class, which I simply can’t do due to work and college etc. So Adrain is going to check out and see what time and so on, but the girl we spoke to who was interested and had friends interested isn’t answering. So we are still waiting to hear!
At work I am now contracted… Signed and sealed… Well signed at least, no seal these days! So that means they can’t fire me so easily (I think) but it also means I can’t quit so easily (which shouldn’t be a problem). It also means I get some paid holidays which is nice. I had thought it was going to be a work and get paid system where if I work I get paid, if I don’t I don’t. But it isn’t, I guess there would be too much possible unreigned freedom to milk it either way on my part… Work crazy for a month over the summer and not turn up for a month or something dumb like that. Of course I wouldnt have, but this way is a bit more consistent to normal employment!
Tomorrow I am going to a missions rally kind of thing at Wellington Street presbyterian where I am the OMF representative (taking Julie’s place now that her time has ended). There was the OMF day of prayer today, but I wasnt able to go due to testing my final essay plan for Early Church history (ie writing an essay from it). This one is definately my weakest one, probably because I jumped on it when we did it in the seminar and started reading for it practically straight away. So now the reading is intermingled in my mind with what we did in class and so on and I find it hard to know what I should be showing off and then I found myself regurgitating too much of the Pliny/Trajan letter content, stuff that I should be leaving unsaid and assumed known… This is probably of no interest to anyone reading (if in fact there is anyone reading!) so I’m going to leave it there.
Also the polish-english classes didn’t start. Adrian and I went to the house we had visited before and due to a whole bunch of reasons and hints we think they were just being nice to us the last time… :wallbash_tb:
