I’ve been here three weeks now, today. How weird is that? But then again, I’m gonna say that next week too, and probably two weeks after that, and so on down the line.

I think what really catches me up is that it feels like I’ve been here longer than that. I took a look at the calendar today, and realized I’ve only worked 11 days since being here, 3 of which were OJT. So I’ve had 8 days on my own. 8 days. Feels like I’ve done so many more than that. Cause, for the most part, I have the lesson teaching part of this job down. I still need some extra focusing and technique, but for the most part, I’ve got enough of the essentials down so that I can walk into a lesson, open to a page, and say alright today we’re gonna do this. Which happened to me actually the other day at Kashiwa, where those bastards are notorious for losing files. I had a one on one lesson with a guy whose file didn’t even exist as it turned out, and I had to go up there with absolutely no knowledge of this guy or what lessons he’s done and just open the book, randomly pick a lesson and teach it, all the while hoping he hadn’t just done it the day before.

Turns out he was a newer student despite being an advanced level, and had only done one other lesson before. Lucky me.

Yesterday I had my first voice lesson. No one showed up for the first couple of minutes. Then a little girl showed up, part of Club 7, the level 7 group for voice, the least advanced, and we talked one on one for 40 minutes about foods, and the world, and other things. I was nervous, and I hated that my first voice lesson had to not only be Club 7, the hardest of voices, but one on one, which meant that I had to lead the discussion the entire time. Ugh. Oh well, I don’t really care it went alright and I haven’t been fired for it yet, so, no worries there either.