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Friday was a day off for us - but of course that didn’t mean anything was too different about our day.
I needed to do some more work and even some reworking on the bass drums. I took all the drums up (pitch wise) and will do that again tonight before rehearsal. Hopefully they’ll be pretty close to where we want them by Sunday. I’m skeptical at this point that the new heads are going to sound good. We’ll keep them on for a while either way. After that I did some practicing and then studied some more Japanese. This one Japanese grammar book I’ve been working out of has done a great job of tying some loose ends in my understanding of the language. Almost overnight, I think my language skills have improved significantly.
This morning was pretty unique. Frances found a new English school for young children and toddlers that was holding their first trial lesson and we were invited to come help out. So I spent my afternoon teaching young children colors, left, right, forward, back, and how to play “London Bridge is Falling Down.” It was pretty eye-opening how difficult it is to teach such young children with short attention spans and only a basic understanding of almost everything. Huge kudos to Kindergarten teachers. I definitely had fun, but it was harder that it sounds.
Helping out was another Japanese girl who was born in LA and went to school in Boston and a guy named Jake. Jake’s married and was working here with the English teaching school NOVA until they laid off all their employees in September. He suggested some other fun places to go see in Nagoya City including a bar hosting a Super Bowl party this Monday. We’re all hoping to make it out for that. I could go for some football!
It’s 5:40 in the evening right now so I’m going to go practice, tune, and eat before heading to rehearsal.
Thanks for reading -
Chris
