"How are you?" "I'm tired."

Mnnnarrrr. Another day of five classes. It started out as my lucky day today though - I got up a little late and didn't have time to grab breakfast, but I ran out to buy my drinks for the day. I remembered that I left my change purse at school, but in the bottom of my purse I found a random 150 yen! Enough to buy one drink.

The vending machine outside our apartment was, so I thought, kind of broken. You'd put in your money, it'd freak out and flash all these numbers at you, and then give you your drink. So I put in my money, it freaked out and gave me my drink, but didn't give me my 10 yen change, just beeped at me a lot. I glared at it, 'cause I was running late, and was like "Hey vending machine, what's the deal?"

Then I looked and all the little lights under the types of drinks were blinking, and the number in the place where the prices usually show (this is where the numbers usually freak out, too) said "7777." Apparently that's a random number generator, and I won. So I got a free drink.

I need new shoes. I've been running around school in these awesome slippers that Yiayia got for me a couple years ago, but they just aren't made for 7 hours running around on hard school floor. My feet are killing me.

Hmm, what else has happened lately...I went to PTA chorus class with Alex last night and met a lot of the parents of my students. They were kind of shy and I got stared at a lot 'cause I'm foreign but it was okay. The principal wanted me to introduce him to Alex, so I did. He's a fun guy. I have no idea what I'm going to do for these songs though - it's hard to both try to read the music and read Japanese without falling behind in the rhythm on either of them. Oh well, I'll try my best. :P

Today I got to read some of the comments children wrote in their English journals. A lot of them are writing things like, "Natalie-sensei is lots of fun" and "Natalie-sensei gave me a sticker! I was happy." It made me feel all squishy.

Incidentally, dinner was fantastic. <3