driving miss daisy

So, after months of bumming rides off of Joey D and co, I am somewhat reluctantly acquiring a "free" car. Nicole asked if I wanted her car for free, and I said yes. Its not really free though, because I have to pay the shaken that comes up every 2 years, plus car insurance. Not to mention other hidden costs. Lately, I've been remembering why I didn't want a car in the first place. Mainly because of enviornmental reasons, secondly, I don't want to become lazy and I want to continue to ride my bike the hour to school, and lastly, because roads in Japan are narrow and I have a tendency to get lost. But it will be very convinient for next year when I work more English camps and do CCM stuff. I can't keep going back and forth about it and at this point I am in so deep with the paperwork that there is no backing out. I should have the car by the end of the week! I drove it on sunday for an hour and that was fun. It was really weird to drive though. It has taken over a month for the teachers to help me with all the paperwork. And just when I thought things in Japan couldn't get any more ridiculous, Haga sensei pulls out his measuring tape to measure my parking space. There needs to be a map of the place where my car is parked he explained. "OH! of course!" I should have known. If only I could remember all of the absurd WTF moments of my life in this country up until now. Actually, its probably better that I forget some of them. Yesterday would be one. I went to the wrong school. It was opening ceremony day and I didn't know I was supposed to be at my base school. They called me. But everything worked out ok. There is always a lack of communication with things that they assume I know but I don't. For example, I went to school once only to discover it was a holiday and nobody told me. Anyways, I met one of the new teachers I will be working with. She is really good and smart so I am excited to be working with her. I haven't seen the other part time teacher yet though. I will post a couple of pics from the morning of the ducks with Kyoko.