I'm a teacher, mother. I really am!

I hope that reference to 101 Dalmatians was not too obscure- I don't know how many people have also watched it 100 times.

I wrote this blog yesterday but forgot to post it so every time I say today, I mean yesterday. You're smart. You can change it in your mind.

I taught my first lesson today! It was a real lesson, not just a demo. Technically the class is a "group" lesson, but there is only one student so it is really a cheaper longer private lesson. I taught my branch manager who is so nice and was a very good student. It was so enjoyable and felt very natural. Can't wait to have more students!

Today I went to a conveyor belt sushi restaurant for lunch and MAN those things are fantastic. Hamazushi is about halfway between work and home. When you walk in, you sit right by the conveyor belt and can either grab what comes by (usually not as impressive, especially at the 4 pm lunch hour) or find what you want on the screen in front of your face and the kitchen sends it out. You almost never have to interact with another human except when you are ready to pay! That phrasing sounds depressing but it's actually so fun and just under $1 for one plate. A plate comes with two sushi pieces. Still- you can get full for under $5.

I ordered this sushi special- wasabi mixed with the sticky rice, shrimp, avocado, and onions with a delightful probably mayonnaise-based sauce.

Then coming back from lunch I thought I would take a picture of the pollution. This is not a camera exaggeration, this is what it looked like. Those are pollution clouds. This is my life. Except for I love my life besides the pollution part so I'm not really sad- this is just such an unfortunate display of man's effect on nature. Whew, we're getting a little too deep.

Tonight after my dinner of frozen pizza made on the frying pan (success) I ate green tea ice cream with kindof chocolate sauce on top and sugary gelatin things that I can't remember the name of on it that I got at the Mishimaya. That is the grocery store. It was delicious.

And I had a bag of chips that was cherry blossom flavored. It is not uncommon to find things flavored like cherry blossoms. I had cherry blossom cookies a few weeks ago and they were magnificent. Just as these chips were. The cherry blossom festival is a'comin and there will be so many pictures when it does.

A new friend I made in Japan posted this quote on facebook and I thought it was fantastic:

"Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles
It empties today of its strength"
-Corrie Ten Boom