Where does Tuesday go?

Every once in awhile on Tuesday, I find myself trying at the end of the day to calculate what really happened and where the hours went. It often feels like one day I'll wake up and realize that all Tuesdays are made up of only 8 hours rather than 12. :)

Here's a basic outline of a Tuesday:
- Leave home at about 9:30am. Execute the perfectly-choreographed dance that involves cleaning the classroom, arranging the calendar, writing out some lesson plans, making tea, putting out slippers, making copies for Bible study...all before the first student walks in at 10am.

- Teach morning adult class, afternoon Bible study, afternoon private lesson, and two evening kids' classes. Plan for Wednesday's classes during free time between things.

- Come home and update the English school website while Eric teaches the evening adult class until 9pm. Look up at the clock at 8:50pm and think, "Wow! Is it really almost 9pm? Wasn't it just 9:30am a few hours ago...?" Finish the website, put out the futon, do the dishes, and reflect upon talking Eric into eating popcorn...


Anyway, that is the somewhat basic normal schedule. :) Sadly, this shortened version allows you to skip over  more "juicy" parts of the day...like when I'm *strongly suggesting* to my 5-year-olds that we do not

a. hit fellow students
b. cheat during games
c. make fun of other students
d. stand on the table
e. sit under the table
f. rip textbooks
g. speak Japanese

during English class. Really, we don't. Well, most of the time we don't. Okay...sometimes we don't. :) (Sometimes, when half the kids seem to be in tears and the other half fighting, I want to sit under the table and rip textbooks myself...)

Or all of the moments when I have to stifle a chuckle or hold back a laugh at the strange English coming out of a student's mouth...or when we all just laugh together at the poor man near retirement who said he was 18 years old...

Or like when my group of ladies in Bible study ask brilliant questions about faith...or when they share about God's actions and character. When we can have conversations about Old Testament sacrifices and Jesus' immense sacrifice and God's love...

It was a good Tuesday. I'm still not quite sure where the hours went, but it was good. :)

From the Tokyo front, Eric seems to be learning good stuff! And apparently, the conveyor-belt sushi place knows him by name...or something like that. :)