A typhoon is supposed to hit us here at some point this afternoon. At about 9am this morning an announcement came over the loudspeaker telling all students who take the local JR train line to go home because they were closing down the service in preparation for the weather, so they had to get home before that happened. At the beginning of lunch the vice-principal received a warning from The People Who Decide These Things that actually now we have to send all the students home.

But not the teachers. Because apparently in Japan teachers are like captain, they go down with the ship.

Or not, I don't think it will get that bad (and I've been talking to other ALTs who have reported that it wasn't anywhere near as bad as people were saying) but then their students weren't sent home so maybe it's just hitting us more directly?

It's supposed to hit at some point this afternoon and I have to walk 20 minutes home at 4pm. Without a coat (too warm) and probably without an umbrella as I imagine it will be too windy for one at that point. I am not looking forward to it.

I may take a few hours of nenkyuu and just go home now.