too much

This week has been kind of long. Training was every day from 9am-5:30pm, and it took me about an hour & a half to get there and another 1.5 hours to get home. The trains were crowed. I often stood for 40 minutes at a time on the train, usually surrounded by people (most of them businessmen).
At training we received a lot of information. There were people from the US, Canada, England, Australia, India and Germany in the training. Our instructors were from Texas, Alaska, Germany and France. Lots of accents...quite fun.
I regret the times I tripped walking up and down the stairs at the train station (about once a day), the times I fumbled over my words in casual conversation (sometimes it's better not to say anything at all...), and the worry and stress I put myself through during this week (most of it needlessly). By the end of day 1 (Monday) I had literally worried myself sick--I could hardly sit up or even eat dinner. Thankfully Monday was Daiju's day off, so he took care of me. I was able to calm myself down after that, realizing what my anxiety had done to me.
So, I made it home alright tonight (Friday), and tomorrow I'll go sit in on a couple of lessons at my language center to see how it's done. On Sunday we'll visit Bro. Shindo's church (which is a little far from here) and get some advice from him as to which church we should join. Monday I'll take my exams and perform a lesson I've been preparing. After that there'll be an orientation and training specific to the learning center I'll be working at. Then I'll start teaching adults. After receiving more training, I can start teaching kids (most likely aged 4-7). In a month I have to go back to Tokyo (where I've been every day this week) for a couple more days of training. Oh yeah, and I signed the contract today (I guess they're pretty confident I'll pass the exam they're giving me on Monday!).
I'm not really sure what to wear to work yet. Each learning center is different, and I'm told that mine is a little more "casual." But, here's a better idea of what "casual" means:
At the training, we were told that, on the weekends, we can dress a little more casually than the tie-and-suit-slacks look. For the guys, casual=no tie. I'm still not sure what it means for the ladies.
I wonder if I'll get to wear colors. In general, Japanese business attire=black/gray/white. If that's the case for my LC (learning center) too, I might have to go shopping, as I only have ONE black suit and one gray!
Sorry to bore you with my fashion talk...I guess this blog has become my thinking-out-loud outlet.
Back to the job, I think this will be really good for us. My hours will be similar to Daiju's, so that's a plus. And I definitely have Sundays off. Also, this job pays really well, so I should be able to get my students loans paid off within a couple of years. This job also has an agreement with a resort company, to where it'll only cost like $30/person/night to stay there (good idea for vacation). The training and accountability for my work which I will receive are also invaluable. And if I teach somewhere else in the future that doesn't provide training, then I'll already have some solid knowledge and experience under my belt. That'll be helpful.
Okay, it's almost 10pm now and I am SO tired. Goodnight all!!!