Fortress

Look at Dave showing me up by being all ... writing and stuff.

So Saturday finished adult training. We did our last sample adult lesson, which, while it didn't go exactly to plan, the students seemed to have a good time. In fact, Dave got his first student date! Tanaka-kacho, the department head, who was observing me said that my lesson was like watching a Disney movie ... Wasn't so sure how to take that!

After the lesson we 'graduated' and got our AEON pin and business cards. Hee hee ... look at that! It makes it look like I actually have a proper job for once!

Sunday was so nice. Didn't even sleep in that much but just not having the thoughts of having to prepare for more lessons was so nice.

We also went and got our Inkans, which are how Japanese people 'sign' their names. Its a small stamp with your 'name' on it that you use when paying bills, opening bank accounts and all that stuff. Normally on foreigners they just put the katakana equivalent of your name. But Xavier, one of the other trainees speaks amazing japanese, and was able to make up some Kanji for us!

So he split my name into two - Jo and Anne. Jo (or as near to Jo as you can get in japanese) also means Castle in Kanji (the top character). Anne (or something like An) also means Relaxed or Chilling (the bottom character). So my signature while also saying Jo An, also means the chilling castle! Hee hee.

So ... that was the weekend ...