Just another day in Japan...!

I made myself go to sleep before 10am last night because I was setting my alarm for 5:45am to be out the door with Jeff by 6:20am for the 6:30am train (Jeff's daily routine!). It wasn't as cold as I thought it was outside and I guess since the summer is coming, there was a good amount of light out...I was thinking it was going to be pitch black!

At that early hour, there are still people on the train to work but Jeff does avoid the crazy rush hour with school students and work folks. The all girls private university Jeff works at has about 3000 girls attending. It is about 1 hour for him to work and once you get on campus its a beautiful serene setting with many cherry blossom trees that flower during the season. Students start showing up around 8:30am for the 9:00am first period class.

I really enjoyed sitting in on Jeff's first period class which was a listening class. The classes are 90 minutes long and after that he gave me a little tour of the small campus. The area is actually quite historical in terms of battles that were fought in Nagoya. We had lunch in the dining room which was really good...miso soup, fish, vegetables, and rice! After lunch, I was introduced to a big class of his students and more personally introduced again to a group of his students which I had skyped with last year to talk about their upcoming school trip to Australia. It was so great to know that they remembered our conversation on the computer!

I left the university after that and walked the town admiring the adorable traditional Japanese homes and stopping at cute little Japanese stores that are known in the area for their special tie dying prints. Rain was threatening to come all day but held off fortunately and hopefully will continue to do so during the rest of my stay in Japan.