Hey ya'll!!!

I clean up rather nicely. What you all think?

HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS!!! Ok, they aren't dominating, but we are 2-1, and if you are from Charlotte...well, I'm sorry. ごめなさい! (I'm sorry).

Anyway, it's been a minute since I've written on the blog so here is a quick update of what is going on in my life.

September has been a pretty busy month. We had to get somewhere in the ballpark of 116 points (if we get one extra lesson with a current student we get a point) and we had to get 9 new students. Basically, we had to get lessons from students that we did not currently have. Whether they be parents of students we have, or brothers and sisters, or someone entirely not related to any of our students, we needed to get 9 new students to sign up in about a month and a half. It sounded pretty far fetched considering I have been here for almost 8 months (WOW) and we haven't reached our new student goal in one month ever. But today folks, we did it.

I personally will have four new classes come October. One of my three year old kids is switching the time of their class, I got a new parent, and I have two new baby classes (yup..BABY classes). It's actually not so bad. It's great teaching the parents, especially when they are hot moms (in fact, I one of them tomorrow, SCORE!).

September has quietly been one of the busiest months I've had. In the past four work days I have taught 30 classes. Seven, seven, eight and eight. Tomorrow I only teach six, but good gracious, if I thought my check was good last month, I can't wait to see what my check will be this month. It's probably not going to be more, but it's going to be at least half as good as far as over-time is concerned.

I am almost done with the 7th Harry Potter. I'm about half-way through it, and I'm excited. The reason I am so excited is because when I get finished with it, I will have my life back. Harry has pretty much commanded my lunches, nights, and weekends. Sure, I've devoted ample time to Pokemon and Marvel vs. Capcom 2, and also dancing, but still, Harry constantly looms over me, and he will be gone in a couple of weeks. Which is kind of actually really in a horrible way....sad. *tear*

I am going to Hiroshima in a couple of weeks (PUNCH THE AIR!). I am going for *drumroll* a Sake FEST!!! I've never been to a Sake Fest before, but I hear it's QUITE the fun time. I also get four days off next week, so that's even better. And, I'm going to be in a famous city as well. So I plan on visiting the dome, and most likely the peace park too, but by and large, I'm going to be hanging with my friends at the Sake Fest.

I've got a new invigoration for learning Japanese. If any of you are wondering why, just remember I have Yellow Fever, so, that alone will give any man a reason to learn another language (and for those of you who didn't catch that, you deserve not to, so I'm going to let it go...woops..there it goes).

I went back to Osaka a couple of weeks ago, had another four day weekend, so I decided to go back out to a city I didn't really get to have a lot of experience with. I am so glad I did because I got to party with three of the Black Eyed Peas, Will I AM was DJing, and I met this awesome chick who speaks really good English (and she's cute..yay, new friend!). There had to be at least around 500 people there. There were two warehouses and four DJ's. It was a blast and it only cost me 20 bucks to get in! Dude...LOVIN IT!

So I have some pictures, not all of them are from the same time, but you should enjoy them none the less. I hope everyone is doing well, cause I'm doing amazing. My kids are really starting to feel like my KIDS. It's crazy how tight you get with the little ones after seeing them every week (give or take absences) for about 8 months. Wow...8 months...and think..I'm just getting started. にほんだいすきです！！！！ (I LOVE JAPAN!!!)

-ジェレミせんせい (Literally: Jeremy Teacher)

My name looks so cool in Japanese!!!

Random quick story. Had a kid, who is smart as a whip (whatever that means) and we were going over countries and what you call people from those countries. I asked him what you call people from Iceland and, jokingly, he said "Ice Cream!" Thought that was hilarious! Ok, back to your regularly scheduled lives.