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Work

7:53am JST Tuesday 22 April 2003

Wow. I'm surprised that I've not written in two days. I worked at Tsunashima on Sunday and Monday; it's like a vacation compared to working at Kawasaki. Plus Janis is tall and pretty and she's an easy boss to work for 'far as I can tell. She's practically married to Corey though, who works at my school, which is good because it helped me quickly get past all that wow you're hot stage.

I got two free lessons, one voice and one MtM (I really wish they had called it One on One instead of propogating our patriarchal society), and only 1 person in the voice room for my second voice (we exchanged world travel stories; she's been to Giza and Thailand and other fly places I didn't know existed) and a few man to mans and only one lesson with 3 students. That was a 7B but they were relatively high 7Bs. Compared to the other 7Bs I had yesterday.

Oh, and I had two level 3s! Plus the woman in voice was level 3. Easy shmeezy.

Nearly all of my lessons were just yammering in English, though I did focus on drills for certain language structures. Or tossed in good vocab for the level 3s.

For my other level 3, against one of the main rules in the Nova classroom, I wrote in hiragana when she told me a cool place to visit, Hakkode (I think (good thing I wrote it down)) and she was like "wow you're writing very well" or some shit and I showed her one of the kanji I know (for tree, which looks kinda like a tree)

For the record, I know the kanji for river, mountain, tree, book, wood, and forest. The last four are all simple variants of tree, which is easy. I only know how to pronounce river "kawa" (because it's part of the name Kawasaki) and mountain "yama" (cause it's common at the end of train station names) and tree "ki" cause it's part of my friend Rie's last name. (Aoki, "blue tree")

Showertime now, then studytime. I've got a class at 10-noon then Andrew and I are going to meet at Ginza at 1pm.