Brief note on Friday

Besides the smoking poster, several other events transpired on Friday. I have to be brief so I can get out of here on time to meet Yuko.

The orientation at Tohaku: drove to Urayasu with Adam in the morning. The training was mostly a waste of time. Carinne`s lesson planning ideas were right out of the available books and websites, so were Tori`s elementary lesson demonstration. Niki`s workshops on building relationships with coworkers was more like a chance for her to show off her supposedly superb interpersonal skills and how cool her kocho-sensei is (needless to say, seeing and listening to her outside of dimmed pubs and dancefloors have completely destroyed whatever favorable impressions I might have had about her). The whole thing was just stupid.

I did get my car though. More on that later.