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Friday 13

11:26am JST Friday 13 June 2003

Woke up a tad later than usual on Friday. Zing through a shower (no shave, washing only the essentials), zing to the train station, perfectly made the 8:45am local train to Shibuya. For some reason, we were not passed by an express nor a limited express train during our transit.

I wonder what is the simplest way to express the train schedule. There's several components to it - basically when the trains will arrive at a particular station, and how fast they'll travel. Though those are inexorably (sp) linked. But there's also a component of trains passing other trains at particular stations. Some stations have only one track through them, so the express trains cannot possibly pass the others.

Yadda yadda yadda; I don't yet have it all figured out.

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Got to Starbucks in Shibuya just in time to meet Ayana. Bought an expensive sandwich (not because it was big, but because I was at Starbucks).

Ayana was quite impressed with the sentences I had written last night. That positive feedback / good feeling is definitely enough to make me do *that* again. Plus it's good practice.

She gave me adjectives today - those that end with i and others that end with na.

Told me how to use to (and / with), and maybe something else.

6:50pm

Work is not over, but I have the quote of the day, a question:

"Have you eaten in Japan?"

And this was uttered by a level 6 student who I've been teaching each week for the past month at KQ.