One of my favourite teachers at school, Iwaie-sensei, came up to me very excitedly on Friday afternoon and told me that she'd just been out to lunch with her friend, Kometani-san. At first I had no idea what she was talking about, and then I remember the conversation we'd had where I'd asked her if she knew anyone in Ako who might be able to teach me some Japanese. She mentioned this one friend of hers, and said she would ask her when she saw her next. Apparently her friend, Kometani-san, was quite eager to learn English too, so they'd decided to ask me for coffee that afternoon. Naturally I couldn't go until school was finished, so Iwaie-sensei went on ahead and told me to meet them at Briar Gate.

After getting majorly lost, I finally found them and met Kometani-san, who was really nice. Her English isn't too bad as she studied at an ikawa for many years, but she has an amusing habit of getting very nervous and breaking out into Japanese in the middle of her sentences, hehe. We both agreed it'd be great if we could do language exchange, so I organised to meet her for an hour every week at her house in Ako (which is on the way home from school, yay!) every Wednesday. Good times - now I can finally practise Japanese the way I want to, every week! :)