The rest of my week was pretty normal. I played tennis with the teachers on Wednesday afternoon, which was fun despite the fact I played pretty badly, haha. I hadn't played for nearly 10 years, and having taken up badminton, found it really hard to control the ball. Not really surprising, I suppose :) I played badminton on Wednesday night and actually played surprisingly well, winning most games. So that was good. Thursday night was Minato-ya, and Friday I had to take it easy thanks to having to go to school on Saturday. It was the very exciting annual general meeting of the Parents and Teachers Assocation (PTA). It was decided that the students should also come, and do their Monday classes. Not sure why, but that's life, hehe. I wasn't involved in the PTA meeting and have no classes on Monday, so it was a little bit of a bummer as it really mucked up my weekend plans and made for a very tiring 6 day week. At least we got the Monday off, though, and then a 4 day week to make up for it :)

The only other exciting thing that happened during the week was that my infinite patience in waiting to get my judogi finally paid off, when it arrived on Thursday! I came back to my desk after a class to find Kurioka-sensei standing there with it, wheee - I was really excited. And at a whopping $300, so I should be! I decided I'd better be hitting the judo club as much as I can, hehe. I wasn't expecting it to be quite so much, but such is life - 'real' gear for Japanese sports/culture/etc is really expensive. Anyway, Yamamoto-sensei, the teacher in charge, said I could start the next week and should just go whenever I could. Which I think meant I should be going every day, but that I had gaijin privileges :)