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Kamata

9:44pm JST Wednesday 24 September 2003

Gave my email address or website to about 8 students today.

Lots of level 4s and 3s today. Lowest was level 5. Actually the lowest was a level 3, but officially it was level 5.

Gave mkp site to about half the students today.

Inquired several times about the idea of bringing mkp to Japan.

Speech

11:32pm JST Wednesday 24 September 2003

It seems I've kinda given up on memorizing my whole speech. The agonizing hours don't seem to be worth it. I can just read it in romanji and have a much more relaxed time before and during the speech. I'm here to learn Japanese, not here to kill myself memorizing Japanese that is too difficult for me to realistically learn in such a short timespan.

11:39pm

Soon as I wrote that, I got this:

From: "atsuko"
Date: Wed Sep 24, 2003  23:31:03 Asia/Tokyo
To: "ROBERT"
Subject: How are you?

To Rob

How do you feel today? I hope you are pretty good.
Today I brought you an old saying such as no pain no gain.
I'm sure 1000 �L�� ���� ���������@��.... is one of hard phrase in your speech.

So read it loud please.

�������@�������@�����@is your favorite
So enjoy it.

�W�����\�����������������[...is almost same as English and your home town.
So no sweet.

You have more 4days.  Please enjoy your wonderful Japanese speech.
                                                             Liz

Speech update

12:38am JST Thursday 25 September 2003

I was in bed, having given up, and tried on a whim to recall the first line of the second page.

I nearly did it. Woah; progress; I can do this.

Now I have have memorized the first and almost the second line of the second page.