The new school year has begun

Well, I've recovered from the numerous farewell/welcome parties for staff coming and going from my various elementary and junior high schools I teach at. On an interesting note, I got the chance to try eating crickets for the first time at a karaoke bar in town during one "second" party. Not normally a Japanese food, it is I guess a "tasty" snack for some, cooked crispy with sugar and soy sauce. My school principal and I seemed to be the only ones trying them though. Not much flavour to be honest. I tried to goad the other (younger) staff into eating one, the premise that "they" being Japanese should be able to eat anything I can eat here. Alas it was not to be. :)

Conan's news is that while he's not quite ready to crawl yet, he has taught himself to get into the crawl position (on hands and knees) and hold himself there. Shouldn't be too long. Guess it's time to "baby-proof" the lower half of the house.

Here's a recent picture of Conan contemplating his dinner in his new highchair.



A small side note; my first supervisor at the Sumita BOE six years ago just returned as the new vice-principal of my main junior high. It's certainly been fun catching up with him. When we first met, I was 26, and his oldest kid was in the 5th grade. Now she's in her final year of high school. My how time flys.