Yesterday's decision to have a good day proved to be a good one. I taught my English lesson with pep, and then taught the children (including Aidan) to play mime. I didn't notice my back hurting after about 11:30 yesterday morning, so that was also a relief. In the afternoon when Aidan went to play with a friend, I gave Abi some quiet time by taking the other two boys to the park for a little over an hour. After coming back and talking with my brother, I started dinner. We had baked eggplant, sauted honey carrots, rice and beef. I thought I did well with it, even though the beef did turn out a little tough. :( After supper, I read to the boys a few chapters out of Farmer Boy while the other adults got in some Japanese study time. Then I watched two Andy Griffith episodes while I had my green tea ice-cream, and I finished up the night by learning the vowels in hirigana (one Japanese alphabet). Thinking back over it all now, I can't believe that was all one day! I don't know how I got that much done yesterday, while on the day before all I could do was sit on the couch and feel sorry for myself because I felt so bad!
Today was a little different... I woke up this morning at 6:45, and lay on my futon half awake until 8:00 wishing I had the energy to move! :) When I got up at 8:00, I took a nice, long, very refreshing hot shower. After I went to the 7-11 for milk and ate my delicious fried rice breakfast, I had priceless time to chat with both of my parents! Today Abi, the boys, and I went to Chiba. We left at about 10:00 AM and got back around 6:30. While we were there, we visited with Carley and Matt and one of their Japanese friends who has two sons Aidan and Eastin's ages. We got there at about 11:30, ate lunch, and talked while the boys played. I stayed there until almost 2:00. Then I decided that, for my own sanity, I would go for a walk... You may be wondering what a walk in the heat of the afternoon, on the hottest day of the week would do for my sanity (or where my sanity was when I made that decision)? My choices were these: Either stay in one room with 7 boys ages 7 and under, or go for a walk in the heat of the afternoon. Which would you choose? ...I had intended to go to the home of some other friends while the ladies were visiting with each other, but the other people were not home. So I just walked. :) At one point before I went walking, Abi had leaned over to me and asked if I needed earplugs. My reply was quite accidentally humorous. I hadn't heard what she had said, so I asked her to repeat it. Then she told me she had asked if I wanted earplugs. :) After a 35 minute walk I returned to Carley's house, where they had put the noisy boys outside to play. We left shortly after.
Then we went to Costco. After unloading the van and putting everything away, we had dinner. We ate raw salmon, shrimp, salad, and rice. It was quite good. Now, I am devouring only the second bowl of popcorn I've seen in the last three and a half months! (If you know me really well, you know how much I love popcorn!)
I don't know what I'm going to do now... I'll probably go to bed within the next 30 min since I'm so worn out! But first I'm going to finish my popcorn!!! :)
My love to you all,
Hannah
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