A Migraine on the right side of my head, with my left arm feeling numb. How novel. This was the start to my Saturday - a phonecall from Steve asking me if I wanted to go see a movie, and then realizing that the arm I answered the phone with wasn’t working right and that [...]
Archive for September, 2007
I have to write so I can sleep
29Sep07Today I got to school and tried to finish the translations on the food menu. I hurried, trying to finish it before my class with Kunugi-sensei. It got to be within 15 minutes of class and I ran to Tanabe-sensei’s office to have him translate the rest. In Japan looking hurried and busy is good. [...]
Just like old times.
28Sep07I’ts 1AM. And I’m only now able to go to bed, because I had homework. Last week I (stupidly) told Kunugi sensei that I would try and prepare something over and above for this weeks lesson. This week’s lesson is ordering food at a restaurant by the way, so it lends itself to a little [...]
Talk the talk
26Sep07While the students at Hibari-gaoka take tests I sit at my desk(s) alternately opening lesson plan books, shuffling to the internet computer and checking slashdot, and bouncing back to my desk to close the books. Repeat for most of the day.
When not working my very hardest to not work I spent time talking with the [...]
I spent most of my free time, and some of my classtime, trying to get my American laptop and a gorgeous 52″ 1080p Japanese LCD TV to talk to one another. And language was a problem, not for themselves but their operator. From what I could discern of the LCD’s strange PDF bible, pictographs led [...]
