Goodbyes and Hellos

This week was my new co worker, Eduardo's (to be known as Ed or Eddie) first week at the school. As expected he was a little nervous but quiet excited by it all. I tried to help him out as much as I could because I'm a nosy control freak but there's only so much I could do bar teaching all his classes for him. He's really peppy and ambitious so I'm sure it won't take long for him to get settled in.

On Saturday night after work we had our combination welcome/goodbye party for Ryan and Ed. These parties are so much more fun when I actually know the students. It's nice to be able to relax and laugh with the rest of the staff and the students.

Everyone kept asking me if I was drinking a lot because I went bright red. I hadn't even finished my ONE drink yet. So they had a good laugh about that.

I have a Teddy Bopper student called Katsushi, also affectionately known as Elvis. He absolutely idolises Elvis and dresses the part. He brought his guitar with the intention of letting Ryan jam on it. I kept asking him if he was going to sing for me but he kept refusing. I eventually twisted his arm and he serenaded me. It was so sweet. He sang me Rick Nelson's 'Hello, Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart)'.

One of my other student's Hisataka is a masseuse and he treated Ryan to an on the spot massage. Where's mine?

Unfortunately, Ed and I had to leave early to catch last train. I basically had to drag Ed out because he was having so much fun mingling. And he forgot everything so he had to keep going back for it. I guess it was a good thing we had to leave early or I might have ended up carrying him back to the apartments.






Except for the random head that keeps popping up in the background (That's one of the students, Shouji. He's hilarious and always brings in a different weird Japanese drink every week) these are my wonderful co workers.
Ryan's the baby faced boy in the gray shirt. Can you believe he's 27?
Ayako's in the striped shirt, Saori's in the middle and of course, suave Ed in the front.