and today is my last day at Nishiwaki before they do. I just said good-bye to my favourite student. 🙁 It seems like yesterday that she approached my desk, trying desperately to translate Gosurori to English. Fortunately I’d already encountered the katakanaised ‘Gothic Lolita’ and from there our conversations began. She was fascinated to learn […]
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Ironically, I have a health exam at school this week. Can’t wait to hear how healthy they think I am! I’ve been given a sheet to fill out, accompanied by the translation. The translation is just too amusing to keep for my eyes alone. Here are some yes/no statements: I feel some abnormalities somewhere I […]
I’m taking the ticket home. The dr I went to today totally brushed me aside when I told him I wanted to be tested for giardia and other bacteria uglies and told me it was just a bad reaction to food. Whatever. Suddenly the effort of the flight home seemed so much easier than trying […]
unfortunately the last three are reserved for the second years – whom I f’ing hate teaching. Remember at school when there were always a couple of kids who would not work and would talk all the time and not listen to anything said. Now reverse the ratios. That’s right, the majority of the second years […]
We had one of our oh-so-rare meetings with our supervisor today. There are five of us working for this BOE, yet I hardly see any of the others. After the meeting, which I’m sure broke the record for shortest meeting ever (10 min), I was telling the others about yesterday. I found out from Rhiannon […]
