November and autumn have caught up with Kanazawa: it’s
raining ever more often, and even when it’s not, the sun’s mostly hidden behind
clouds, and it’s hard to believe that it’s not even a week since I was walking
round the campus in shorts and a light cardigan at worst. It’s not freezing
yet, still putting on a T-shirt and a warm hoodie is enough to get me from my
dorm to classes without paralysing me with frost, but the time for at least a
light jacket is just around the corner.
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| Mostly naked trees on campus |
I’m not complaining, really, after all it is November and summery weather in a
moderate climate doesn’t last forever. But at the same time it’s not a reason
for being overly joyful – however you look at it, chill and rain don’t
encourage leaving the house, be it for food shopping or sightseeing. It’s more
of a time for oceans of tea, good books and warm socks. Though on the other
hand one cannot just stay inside forever, so if a non-rainy weather manages to
meet a free time on my timetable, I will do my best to go and see/do something.
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| Wet Kanazawa University |
But for now it doesn’t look like sightseeing, well,
unless we include the nearby second hand shop, which I will dedicate a separate
post to, once I finally get there. So I’m catching up on reading, on TV shows
and studying, writing essays and doing presentations.
And I finally started my part-time job, or at least one
of the two I have. I’m back to teaching a child English and I am really happy
about that. Not just because both the boy and his mum are simply lovely and
while I teach the boy English, they both help me with my Japanese – I simply
like teaching kids. I don’t yet have any experience in teaching adults, this
will change on Friday, when I start the second job at the university hospital,
but I think that teaching is just generally my thing.
Anyway, I’m gonna go make myself anothe cuppa. Somehow I
feel that warming myself up with tea is far more economically sensible and will
come out cheaper on my electricity bill than using the air conditioning.
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