beware

Yesterday I had a wonderful day. I didnt plan it which was made it so much more special. I was bored after spending close to three days indoors due to the rain.  I jumped on my scooter and went into the city center. City Hall. They had some kind of environmental event on and I thought I might be able to pick up some organic bread of veggies. Anyway I stumbled on all these kiosks with different themes and was intrigued, new types of cotton grow in colors other than white and also inventions to  catch rain and so on. Then I followed a girl with long pink hair into a park and encountered a Anime Event. A lot of youth were dressed as their favorite animation character and hanging out with each other,. They readily agreed to pose for fotos....It was all great.
On the way home went to my favorite restaurant and had clam chowder and a salad and found a magazine article to read about Rob Lowe who was 1 of my hero movie stars from Hotel New Hampshire. Got home and watched TV, chatted  on Skype and did internet. About to retire I checked my cell fone and found that an ex-friend had called.  Called her back to see what the reason was. Talked for an hour. It was a bit awkward and uncomfortable but good to find out all that had happened this last year....catching-up after our  close friendship had been so abruptly ended.
 But,  I am leery of renewing the friendship as it was tough "breaking-up" and don't wanna go thru that pain again. Rather be "lonely" and stress free as her life is so busy and complicated.

Offended in time

Last Thursday As I was finishing one job and scurrying to another teaching job I ran into a Yellow woman who was flapping her arms at me. It, as I got closer, turned out to be the mother of two of my previous students. We chatted and thankfully I remembered her brats names and she told me they were fine. We talked about other classmates of her children too.  Her son, the elder was doing well in one of the most prestigious high-schools and her daughter in the 10th grade was doing even better. Then the axe fell. She said, Oh Nigel- Sensei it is thanks to you that they are both doing so well in English. We ( the mother's ) at the time, thought that we were wasting money and now we realize just how good their English capabilities are.  Well I was pissed. These bitches who invented some excuse and then stopped their kids from taking English from me are now basking in the glory of what was a great lesson format.  What authority did they have to critic or even comment on the caliber of my lessons. Moreover, what do they know about teaching English to over-indulged Japanese shysters.  Anyway, I am so offended and ready to quit all my extra-remedial classes. She is not the first to thank me....but she is the first to actually say that all the mothers agreed that they were pissing away money on my classes.
Well they can go to Japanese English speakers who haven't got the correct accents and who have no idea how to conjugate or speak grammatically correct English.  I am so totally disgusted!