Ottawa ni

Ore wa ashita Ottawa ni iku. Ore wa totemo genki desu nazenara Nancy ga 'nu yiiru' no paati o suru!

Orewa bikurishita! Canada ga samui ja arimasen. Ma ma desu.

(yoshi!)

Ima tsukareta desu nazenara okasan no computa o tsukuta.

Otsukaresamadeshita.

Happy new year! And it is a pretty happy new year at that. Jeez I missed Canada and my family a lot. Speaking of family, while I was all these kids just sprung up like weeds. Generally the Hartwick Family Christmas(TM) is way wilder than the Ferbeek Family Christmas(TM) just due to sheer number of brothers and sisters. (my dad has 10, and my mom has 2) However, the amount of children coming from the Ferbeeks is insane! I don't even know all their names.

Anyway, I've had some great pizza, lots of Tims, and loads of cereal. Honey Bunches of Oats is THE BOMB (heh, I can't say that so freely back in Japan). I think all the extra space in my suitcase that was filled with presents is now going to be filled with...Honey Bunches of Oats.

Oh, and I bought snow-board boots! Since my boss's boyfriend gave me a snowboard, they've been the only thing between me and a broken collarbone/wrist. The other great news is that my licenses hasn't expired. I lost it a while ago (like under the bed, not taken away) and I was worried it had expired since then. (woot, past perfect) But it hasn't. Like I said, good news.

I can feel the engrish factory creeping toward me. I really like that place but damn it feels nice to be home.

Home for the holidays

Wow, it's going to be almost two years when I arrive back in Canada on the 23rd. I'm a little nervous but there are some things I'm really really looking forward to. Like seeing my family, friends, and oh ya, having some tims--and that's going to be at the airport.

Damn I can't wait to have some nice pizza. It doesn't even have to be nice, I want Dominos or some crappy stuff like that. The pizza here is terrible.....I mean...have you ever ordered corn on your pizza? Or mayonaise? (shutter)

I hope you have some new years eve plans for me nancy! Don't let me down here. Ray, I'll need a place to crash for a night or too. You too Dan if you are in Toronto.

Oh, I miss cereal too.

Work these days have been nuts. Generaly, we use our own company books in our classes, which is nice 'cause they have dialoges, homework, listening exercises, ect.. The teaching structure we follow is pretty strict, but I think it's pretty good. The only problem is that sometimes it doesn't feel like teaching because you just have to follow a formula.

However, there are these kind of new classes we've added at our school. Grammar in Use.

(shutter)

The book is big, heavy, grey, and it's full of homework. Only homework. So it takes me about a full two hours to prepare one of these lessons because I have to make everything...from the homework.

So yesterday I put a solid two hours into one of my classes, and the class went really well. Now that sucks. 'cause I was thinking 'if this class doesn't go so well, maybe I don't need to put so much time into it.' But no, it went really well. So I'm cursed with working this hard until doomsday. Or quitting day. Whatever comes first.

On a higher note, it totaly feels like real teaching. silver lining I guess.