Getting off the plane in Tottori was like being thrown into a sauna...my goodness it was so hot! My Japanese Teachers of English (hereafter referred to as JTEs) picked me up at the airport because my supervisor at the Tottori-shi (shi=city) Board of Education (BOE), Takahashi-sensei, was supposedly out of town. My JTEs are really nice. One of them, Inoue-sensei, couldn't stay because she had a meeting. The other one, Mari Ishimoto, was the one who drove me around for the rest of the day. After leaving the airport, she showed me how to get to Koto Chugakko (jr. high school, I will most likely be shortening it to Chu from now on) which is the school where she works and where I would be working. It is not too far from Koyama station which is
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