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Sanae spying
such a good detective/bodyguard/guide lady! Yes I am free tomorrow. Where?
Holy frick I have my first private student. I hadn't expected a response so fast. God, I'm not sure I can do this, I've only taught kiddies before.... and how do you teach english to someone who clearly can already speak it anyway? Apparently all I have to do is chat about whatever comes to my mind for two hours and it's easy. Well, easy to say it's easy, I'm still scared. Oh he's just written back - he wants a two hour lesson. Jeeeezus.
OK, I can do this I'll be fine. Sanae is doing my make up and I have a new personality and a fake name. Jessie Collins - it has a nice ring to it. It was Jessica until Sanae told me it would be difficult for Japanese to pronounce so I've now given my fake persona a nickname. This is getting complicated.
He's messaged back - he doesn't know where the cafe is even though it's huge and incredibly popular in a popular part of town so now I have to meet him at the station. Oh god, but what if I can't find the way? I express my sentiments to Sanae, who graciously draws me a detailed map of how to get to the cafe. We go through the map step by step. I'm confused, I tell Sanae, I thought the cafe was in the other direction? No, she assures me, it is definately in this direction. I'm getting upset. It's bad enough that I have to make polite chitchat for over an hour with a stranger, but now I have to read maps too? I'm terrible at reading maps. I'm a terrible teacher. I'm a terrible person. And I have an orange face from Sanaes heavy make up application.
Self pity rises inside me and a lone tear rolls down my cheek. Sanae pats me on the back and asks whats wrong. Another tear rolls down my face and I confess that I can't read maps and I'm a bad teacher and I should just stay at home and hide in bed. Sanae disagrees with me and the two tiny tears turn into an avalanche of fear and misery. Amidst my tears I explain to Sanae that when I get lost this new student of mine will uncover me as a fraud and denounce me as a useless waste of space in the street in perfect english and demand I repay him for wasting his time by polishing his boots.
Sanae reminds me that we're not in the army and the chances of him wearing boots are slim to none. I tell her that I'm definately not going then because if he has no boots for me to polish then he'll probably just shout at me on the street which would be worse than polishing his boots anyway.
My tears have trickled off into a steady stream of sniffs. I am no longer hysterical, but still feeling scared and sitting like a kicked, forlorn puppy on my bed.
Sanae gets changed out of her pyjamas. What are you doing? I inquire, sniffing my way through my abject misery. Sanae replies that she's coming with me. She's going to pretend not to know me and lead me to the cafe and then she's going to spy on us to make sure I'm OK and then she's going to go shopping at Parco because they're having a big sale.
I weakly protest that I couldn't let her do that. Sanae continues getting dressed and shrugs off my feeble attempt at chivalry, I offer to pay her train fare and pull her into a hug. She really is a specatcular friend.
Forty minutes later we arrive, separately, at the station. A tall man aproaches me and asks if I'm Jessie. Hehehe, it's just occured to me how funny it is that I'm running around Tokyo with a orange face for disguise and a fake name. I beam at him and concur that Yes, I am Jessie and gesture for him to follow me as I head towards the cafe, being cunningly lead by my room mate.
We arrive at the cafe. A drink is bought for me and I carefully monitor that it is not drugged or spiked in anyway, then we sit down and chat for 2 hours. I can't believe how easy this is. the 2 hours passes and I am paid handsomely for my time. Now that he's given me money I feel awkward, so I pretend that I'm running late for an appointment (we ran ten minutes over) and beat a hasty retreat. I call Sanae and tell her it all ran smoothly then go to meet her. I'm so relieved it's over. It wasn't so bad after all and now I have experience I can bump my prices up! hehehehe
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