A Day in the Life

For those of you wondering, what does an ALT do?? Well, for me there are basically 3 kinds of days: school days, office days, and school/office days. For the next two weeks I have mostly office days, so I’ll tell you about those. For an example, here is what I did today with no exaggeration.

8:22 ~ arrived at work and wrote a text message to my friend about this weekend.
8:30 ~ started studying Japanese
(9:00 ~ bathroom break)
9:20 ~ made signs for my English bulletin board at school.
(10:00 ~ bathroom break)
10:10 ~ erased all the pictures on my camera that I didn’t need.
10:20 ~ checked my Excel spending records for the month and made sure all the numbers were correct and predicting how much money I’ll have saved by the end of my time here, for the 100th time.
10:35 ~ named all the pix on my computer that I hadn’t named yet.
10:45 ~ pre-wrote some e-mails so that when I get home tonight I can quickly send them instead of procrastinating 2 weeks and then not sending any e-mail at all.
11:15 ~ start writing some blog entries so that when I get distracted by my new favorite drama I can just copy-paste it in there.
(11:30 ~ yet another bathroom break, must be the drugs they gave me)
12:00 ~ lunch time! Eat (1½ tuna sandwiches, apples), medicine, sleeeeeeeep! I had a headache today, so I couldn’t play ping pong with the club. Zannen!
1:00 ~ lunch is over. What am I gonna do for 3 more hours?????!!!!!!!
1:00 ~ cross out everything on my list of things to do that I’ve done.
1:05 ~ start playing spider, switching the screen any time anybody walks by, like it matters.
2:30 ~ write a couple blog entries for my Japanese blog….
(3:00 ~ bathroom break)
3:05 ~ go to the bank, remember that I haven’t paid the doctor from Tuesday!
3:10 ~ go to the doctor to pay.
3:40 ~ get back to the office start writing this entry and somehow 20 minutes has passed.

It’s 4:00, so only 15 minutes more ‘till I’m free. I hope the weather stays nice; I gotta ride my bike home!

Anyway, that was my boring day, a very typical day for me, as well as many of my ALT friends. Seven hours of trying anything to keep myself busy. Next week I’ll probably do more lesson planning…dum dee dum♪ Now only 10 minutes left!!!