Skype number

Right, so they overcharged my for my skype number and now that it is sorted out any voicemails that were left for me in the last week or so might have been lost... just a heads up. I still have the same number and it is working just fine now, so leave all the messages you want from here on out. I still will not be able to listen to them until I get internet access in my apartment though...

Might as well update as long as I am on here, I suppose!

I had a great dinner last night with the women from the community English conversation class that I will be teaching, and also the JET who I am replacing. We had dinner on a wide open grassy field on the North side of the island. It was a stunning view, as the land drops down to a rocky ocean shoreline below. There was a nice breeze blowing, and it was early evening so the temperature was perfect. We had a great dinner of Korean rice (sort of a rice with thick stew over the top) and salad, with almost all of the ingredients coming from one of the members' organic garden. We then had some dessert followed by fresh home-grown watermelon! By that time it was pretty dark so we sat around and talked and lit sparklers with one woman's three little kids.

I then dazzled them with my limitless (sure) knowledge of constellations and we called it a night.

I seem to have aquired a nickname already too. When I was introducing myself I was asked what my least favorite food was.... so I told them the first thing that came to mind. Beets.
They knew what they were but lucky for me they don't have them in Japan. Anyways a short time later when we were all dishing up food one of the women tried to call my name.... Hey Beets! This plate is for you. (This was in Japanese) Everyone broke out laughing and for the rest of the night it kept popping back up here and there.

I am also very often mistaken for Brad when I say my name(oh, like Brad Pitt?) or bread, which leads people to call me Pan san, or Pan sensei, since that is the Japanese word for bread.

I am sure I am doing the same thing to some of their names though... so its only fair.