Halloween and first classes

Halloween is a semi-holiday here, so I decided to go out and see what it was all about. I went with my coworker carrie, and we soon found that the parties/bars with halloween themes were filled with a bunch of foreign steaks in oh so original dracula costumes shouting shit at people - as a matter of fact, it seems like the overwhelming majority of foreigners here are total steaks. We ended up walking from one train stop to another(shibuya to shinjuku), which had been on my list of things to do - just so I could get a better sense of distance and geography between places I had only visited by train - so that was alright. Then I went home. Big time.

I had my first day of classes the next day in Shibuya. Noone showed up for the first three or four, and the ones who showed up for my first lesson were not the most talkative people in the world, which added to my first-day jitters. the next few were pretty cool, and my coworkers were interesting. friendly, but right off the bat one of them asked me about the "machinery" on one of the female higher-ups in the company. uh.......

my second day was a sub day at this town/city near my house that has a massive downtown almost completely composed of shopping malls and department stores. reminded me of providence. i was on sub duty, so i basically just sat around and read for most of the time. they wanted me to read in the lobby so that people that came in for lessons would get a sense of a "real english speaking environment". I also got to stuff kleenex packets with flyers - by the way, if you ever come to japan and need tissue, don't worry about buying it. just go to a train station and collect flyers. One girl came in and said she wanted to work at disneyland, and my boss was like "he's from america - he knows everything about disney characters!" I think the girl prob knew more than me. She did give me a donald duck cookie - i was stoked.

Last night my roommate and i (more on him later) went to the beer vending machine across the street(picture soon) and got a few beers . then I went to bed. I think I'm gonna kick it to the modern art museum today(national holiday) if it is open. otherwise, I think I'll go to a park and read.

i need to learn more japanese. i feel like i have plateau'd at "do you understand", "this is a book", "ueno station is over there",and "can i have chopsticks with my grocery store bento box"

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