First official day of work!

Today was my first official day of work. I don’t know what exactly I should be doing until school starts but I have some ideas. There is a cabinet that the previous JET’s in Hongu used and left a lot of different teaching materials as well as Japanese language books. When I got to work, I immediately started going through the cabinet and organizing its contents. Manago-san, a lady in the office, came over as I was knee deep in papers and told me that my predecessor had never even opened the cabinet. This made me feel good because I felt as though I was already getting praised! Lunch time rolled around and I didn’t know what I was going to eat. Seki-san, the supervisor of the office, told Nakamoto-san to take me to get some food. We went to a tiny grocery store where I bought a bent. It was this egg thing with noodles. I took it back to the break room and watched some Japanese tv while I ate it. After lunch, I went back to my desk and studied some Japanese. I figure I should probably know a little bit so that eventually I can have a full conversation with my co-workers and get past using Google translate. Overall, my first day of work was pretty successful in my opinion. I was on time, I got kudos from Manago-san and I met some new people!