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Work

3:37pm JST Sunday 26 October 2003

Workin' at KQ today. Had Kyouko man to man. She's unsure of herself in level 5 lessons. I'm quite sure of her, so I'm unsure of what to teach her. But then she didn't do amazingly well at a rather difficult lesson so I guess there is stuff I can teach her. I'm most unsure of what's in her brain, what I have to work with.

11 more lessons until my weekend!

6:31pm

8 more lessons until my weekend! Amazing how time flies when discussing something that's already happened.

Y RUU

6:39pm JST Sunday 26 October 2003

Yumiko is really cute.

I quite quickly recognized the futility of repeating the same old patterns. cute - stalk - acquire - release - pain. For one reason or another I was blind to the pattern. Do I see now (have I learned the lesson), or am I just in a place of strength, feeling happy in Japan, where engaging the pattern is clearly unfruitful? Meh; whatever; oughtn't analyze everything to death.

Speaking of meh, I wonder how Jackie is doing. And Josephine. And good god there's a rally going on, actually falling to sleep right now in little puppy piles in San Antonio. I didn't call last night cause I figured there'd be no one there who knew me. Though I wonder if Mike and Ben woulda been there, oh and Rich and Ed. Shoulda called.

talking to janette

12:01am JST Monday 27 October 2003

I have just yammered with janette for an hour. I spilled my guts about Japan as a practice session for talking to Kim. Not like nervous, but just getting my thoughts aligned.

Overview: Learning Japanese without a girlfriend here seems fruitless and difficult. ( "Getting a Japanese girlfriend is the best way to learn." ) The original reason I'm here is to learn Japanese enough to liase between American youth and Japanese host families for 2 weeks at a time. That means I gotta know hella Japanese.

A different reason I could be here is to learn all that I've learned and to ride / take pictures of rollercoasters here.

talking to kim

12:09am JST Monday 27 October 2003

Called Kim at 9am (his time) on the dot (according to timeanddate.com) but no answer. Called again and no answer. Few minutes later and he asked me to call back in 10 minutes. Who could possibly care about such minutiae in a journal? Will *I* even care in 10 minutes?

12:38am

Called again an no answer. I hope he's okay; this isn't like him normally (a year ago).

Hi Kim

I called and got a busy signal, then called again and left the
message.  I feared something might be "really wrong" so I didn't want
to keep calling.   I hung out with my roommate (playing video games as
bonding) and didn't hear the email beeps on my computer so I missed
your emails.     I too was looking forward to our call.

I will call you at 9am Friday October 31st.

With Love
- Rob!



On Monday, Oct 27, 2003, at 01:25 Asia/Tokyo, Kim Sawyer wrote:

I must have been on the phone when you called. I would have jumped off
to you, but I never heard the call waiting beep. I just now got your
message. Sorry we had a hard time. I was ready for you 5 minutes after
we spoke and was on another call for only five minutes
since. Otherwise, Ib12:48amve been here waiting for you since 9:15-ish
my time. Ib12:48amve got to leave now. If you still want to talk, send
me another email outlining some times.

My next opportunity will be Friday morning 10/31 at 9am my time.