I had a pretty bad day on Tuesday, mainly thanks to having slept very badly the night before. Not really sure why. Perhaps it was the humidity, which has gone through the roof recently. The temperature is still down around 25 during the day so it's not too bad, but I guess I'm still adjusting. Anyway, naturally, I wasn't in a very good mood all day! I managed to keep to myself though, thanks to exams, so no big problems :) And in all fairness, given the plentiful good times recently, I suppose I was overdue for a bad day.

Some good did come from the day, though, as I discovered mostly to my delight that I'd been invited to help out with the upcoming Hyogo Board of Education teacher entrance examinations in August. Best of all, the invite came directly from Oouchi-sensei, one of the Hyogo BOE staff who is in charge of the Hyogo JETs. He seems to know me relatively well and now that I'm Hyogo AJET PR we tend to be in contact fairly regularly, which I think might be why I was invited. It's good to know that I seem to have a good reputation with the BoE. Does that seem a little bit driven for the JET Program? Maybe, haha. But I like helping out and if I do want to stay beyond my 3rd year, this is the kind of thing that will make the difference.

Anyway, the down side of this is that the exam dates aren't particularly convenient. There's an exam 'orientation' I need to attend which falls in the middle of some of my other plans, which is a bit of a bummer. Thankfully I could change my plans though, so it's not all doom and gloom. The date of the test itself isn't much better either, unfortunately, as it too clashes with other plans. Again, it's only one day at the end of an event though, so it could be worse. I should get a day of daikyuu (compensatory holiday) for the actual test day, too, which will come in handy :) In the end I made the call that doing the testing is important for any potential future I might want to have here in Japan, so making the small sacrifice is worth it :)