Learning the Ropes

It rains in this place too.

The walk from the station last night left me soaked to the bone. It took me 10 mins to get my shoes off in the dark; not being able to reach the light without leaving a trail to clean up. Anyways...

Yesterday was a good day. I had given 3 full lessons by the end and feel reasonably happy with all of them; a group of 3 earlier in the day talking about deciding on a pet for your household, a 15 y/o highschool guy who had an incredible level of fluency and we talked about 'borrowing and lending', and lastly a young woman where we had a discussion/lesson about alternative medicines. This last woman was of a very high fluency and my trainer spent a bit of extra time trying to help me prepare for it (since the higher lessons tend to need a lot more time filler as well as losing the structure of the lower levels for which we'd been trained).

Today, my last day of training, will have me doing 4 full lessons with two lots of two consequtive classes (as in, less than 10 mins of prep time).

I went up to KICC (Kobe International Cultural C-something, or something) during lunch where I'm able to undertake free conversation classes with local volunteers. I'm a bit unsure about this as I've heard it's pot luck about getting a good person. It's a 6 month thing whether you like it or not.
I'm thinking I may just go pay for regular lessons for Japanese.

Need to head in a bit earlier today to set up my bank account. So...