and not stay up until 1am every night, even though that’s all my body wants to do.
Today I actually started using Japanese in little ways, little ways that turned out useful. I started saying basic sentences to one of my JTE’s who laughed the way you would if someone said “Go train, we are going!” [...]
Archive for November, 2007
I’m trying to be like a normal
29Nov07I need to have a dog
28Nov07One of the things I’ve vowed to do when I settle down is get myself a dog. Not a yippy-yippity little pile of fluff, but something friendly, calming, and preferabbly wrestleable.
Thanks to two days of absolute sorta-diligent Japanese language study, I think I can say I need a dog in Japanese. Here I go. Ready? [...]
No day like her day
28Nov07My day today was completely normal, average, run of the mill. I had two classes where I spent most of the time walking around helping kids out with review worksheets and ocaissonally stopping to have chats about this or that. In one class some of the ‘bad students’ in the back hadn’t started their sheet, [...]
youtube videos are a copout
26Nov07So I’ll write about my morning.
I woke up to my phone alarm, and with enough time to be conscious for the startling buzz of the kerosene heaters startup cycle. It’s like the hum of a fluorescent tube turned up to 11. Once it started up I became worried that it was heating my futon too [...]
6000 Miles
26Nov07And he lived down the street.
Andy, pictured above, grew up and went to school the neighborhood my family currently lives in. He remembered enough that we could talk about old restaurants and stores, street names and directions, all while sitting on bamboo mats on the other side of the world. He was a jet who [...]
