Double pants, 5 shirts (with jacket), 2 scarves, ski gloves, and hat kept everything but my nose and my ear tips OK. Then I got to school and realized that my indoor slippers weren’t quite enough with my thin socks to keep my feet warm. Almost got it right!
Only once class in second period, which we had already planned out (although Charlie and the Chocolate Factory finished early, so we had to fill the last 15 mins with a talk about Australian Christmas and New Years Celebrations), and then “Disaster Prevention Talk”. I don’t know how preventative it was, but we all went to the gym to watch a movie of earthquakes, tsunami, cyclones and typhoons, and then there was an evacuation drill in the freezing cold! I stayed inside for the drill (as did all of the teachers without homerooms of their own), but I did sneak around to the field side of the school to take some photos of the students. And I got to talk to some of them as they headed off the field, which is always a good thing!
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| Watching the "Disaster Prevention Video" |
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| The evacuation begins... |
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| These are just about all of the first year students at Akashi Shimizu - I teach all of these guys. |
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| The whole of the Akashi Shimizu student body out on the field. |
It also turned out that today/this evening have been the coldest times so far this winter. I huddled under the kotatsu all night after an early expedition to the supermarket, 100 yen store and Tsutaya, our local DVD rental place, so I didn’t notice the cold too much until I went for a shower. Even though we have gas hot water, the pipes run around the outside wall of the house for about 10 m, so by the time the water got to the shower it was luke warm, even when I had the hot on full bore! I ended up boiling a few kettlefuls of water and having a bath instead. To summarise, it is very, very cold here tonight.
Food Highlight of the Day: PIE! (or close enough)
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